On July 14, 1775, Mehmet Pasha Bushatlliu died. The High Door, who did not want to leave Shkodra in the hands of the Bushatillians, tried to send Istanbul from the seat of the deceased, but Mustafa Pasha Bushatlliu took his father’s seat without the approval of the Gate and at the helm of his forces In the vicinity of Durres and Kavaja, to bring it into its rule.
