replied to the messengers: In 1453, one of the first acts committed by the (then fully reigning) Sultan Mehmed II immediately after the conquest of Constantinople was to imprison Çandarlı Halil Pasha. The city had been taken on 29 May 1453 and Halil Pasha's imprisonment took place on 1 June 1453. His execution followed on 10 July 1453. Mehmed II thus ended the Çandarlı era in the Ottoman Empire, and the later members of the family became no more than provincial notables based in İznik, although they were to give yet another, short-term, grand vizier to the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 15th century (Halil's son Çandarlı Ibrahim Pasha the Younger). Çandarlı Halil Pasha was, as such, the first Ottoman grand vizier to be executed by the sultan. Popular culture Reşit Gürzap portrayed Halil Pasha in Turkish film İstanbul'un Fethi (1951). Halil Pasha is played by Erden Alkan in Turkish film Fetih 1453 (2012). Halil Pasha appears in the historical novel Porphyry and Ash. The speech he delivers to the Byzantine Emperor is the same as that made by the real Halil Pasha as recorded by George Sphrantzes Halil Pasha is played by Selim Bayraktar in Netflix series Rise of Empires: Ottoman. Halil Pasha appears as an antagonist in Kiersten White's novel “And I Darken” (2016) See also Çandarlı family Çandarlı, a town named by Halil Pasha List of Ottoman Grand Viziers References 1453 deaths Pashas 15th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire 15th-century executions by the Ottoman Empire Turks from the Ottoman Empire Executed people from the Ottoman Empire Grand Viziers of Mehmed the Conqueror Year of birth unknown Fall of Constantinople Halil