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Yashar Pasha (Yaşar Paşa) ( 1827–36) was an Ottoman feudal lord that semi-independently ruled most of the Sanjak of Vučitrn, also known as the "Pristina Pashaluk", in the 1820s and 1830s.

Life
Yashar Pasha was Albanian. He succeeded his office from Malik Pasha (Malić-paša), his paternal uncle. Malik Pasha had fought the Serbian rebels in the First Serbian Uprising (1804–13).

At the beginning of the 19th century, local feudal lords fought eachother in order to expand their estates. These were anti-reform lords who sought to rule independently from the sultan. Yashar Pasha came to master the Pristina Pashaluk in the 1820s and 1830s. A tyrant, he persecuted the Serb (Christian) peasant population, imposed chiflik terms, expropriation of peasant land, church– and monastery estates. Both he and Malik Pasha had carried out massive population transfer in their province.

Yashar Pasha is known for leading the destruction of Serbian Orthodox churches, seizing monastery estates, murder of priests and monks, and "annihilation" of 79 Serb villages, of which 32 in the Pristina kaza (district), 22 in the Vučitrn nahiya, and 25 in other parts of Kosovo. Residents were killed, banished, or forced to convert to Islam. Apart from keeping seized estates for himself, he gave seized land to Albanians and Islamized Serbs. The settled Albanians were in charge of securing the border with the Principality of Serbia. By terrorizing Serbs and forcing them to emigrate, and settling Albanians from Malësia (northern Albania), Metohija and the Scutari surroundings, Yashar Pasha secured his province from territorial pretensions of Prince Miloš Obrenović. At times, he was in conflict with both Albanians and Turks; wanting to annex Vučitrn, he fought for a few years with Mahmud Bey, the ayan of Vučitrn, who governed the Upper Lab (inhabited by Albanians) and was supported by some Albanians from Goljak and 200 Novi Pazar Turks.

During the fight to dominate the Sanjak of İpek (the "Peć Pashaluk") between Mustafa Pasha Bushatli of Scutari and Numan Pasha of Peć (1827–29), Yashar Pasha sided with Numan Pasha. After Numan Pasha died, Mustafa Pasha managed to take over the whole of Metohija in the spring of 1829.

During the 1832 campaign against the revolting Bosnian beys under Husein Gradaščević, Yashar Pasha, Ibrahim Pasha of Peć and Mahmud Pasha of Prizren played an important role. Yashar Pasha quickly banished a Bosnian unit which had taken over Vučitrn and Gnjilane in February 1832, which was the first defeat of the Bosnian rebels. The Bosnian revolt was suppressed by early June 1832.

Yashar Pasha was finally removed from his post in 1836 by the Porte, along with other Albanian lords in Old Serbia. This came after many deputations came to Belgrade several times and complained to the Serbian government and Russian consul over the status of Serbs in the Pristina Pashaluk.