(11) faced the ottoman sultans over the next century going to mustafa ii held the ottoman throne to kick off the th century sultan mustafa signed the treaty of constantinople on july ending the russia-turkish war of throughout against russian tsar peter the great this treaty gave azov to russia but promised years of peace between the empires sultan mustafa was unable to enjoy the harmony for long though due to the edern event in the event was a result of angered janissary core who disproved of
sultan mustafa's choice to return to edin not constantinople after signing the treaty of karlawitz and constantinople with the holy league mustafa also left most political and administrative power to phase allah effendi who the janissaries found to be corrupt and overbearing when the ottomans decided to intervene in the civil war in georgia a unit of janissary corps was supposed to be sent to georgia to give the empire a military presence in addition to the janissaries existing displeasure they were also now
intended to join this conflict having not been paid for their proper salaries few units began to protest in constantinople and were quickly joined by civilians and other soldiers the protests turned to riots and after phase allah affendi had the rebels group of representatives arrested the rioters turned their sights toward edern but the janissaries were unsatisfied and as the sultan's own soldiers now joined the protesters arriving in etern mustafa was deposed on august nd and faisala efendi was assassinated
ahmed iii the brother of mustafa ii now seized the ottoman throne and was faced with the challenge of subduing the rebellious troops constantinople remained in a state of unsettled indignation until the appointment of a new grand vizier ali pasha once sultan ahmed could focus more on foreign affairs he began to improve ottoman relations with both england and france as well as forming a new alliance with charles xii of sweden after the swedish king's loss to peter the great of russia at the battle of
poltava in charles sought refuge in the ottoman court and proceeded to convince sultan ahmed to declare war on russia in despite the constantinople treaty which should have meant years of peace the ottoman grand vizier mehmed pasha led his troops to a decisive victory surrounding peter the great's men at the pratt river and forcing the russians to not only agree to giving up azov but they were also
required to destroy the fortress of taganrog and any other azovian forts and refrain from interfering in any polish or cossack affairs once the russians were no longer a direct adversary for the time being ahmed turned his attention to the venetians declaring war on venice in december of . the ottomans used coordinated naval and army effort to seize moria the following year word of the turks victory made its way to austria and the austrian emperor charles vi chose to intervene kicking off the austro-turkish war
of through prince eugene's austria's habsburg general led his troops to drastic success against the ottomans although the war itself began to disrupt dutch and british mediterranean trade in great britain and holland urged the ottomans venetians and austrians into signing the treaty of pasa rovitz ending the conflict and confirming the ottomans gain of moria unfortunately for sultan ahmed the agreement also forced him to hand over belgrade little vallahia and benott to austria which threw a wrench in his
empire's westward expansion a few years later in june of the russia ottoman treaty was concluded which was intended to partition their shared neighbor of safavid iran but the ottomans were essentially chased out of the region by potentially fueled by this failure in addition to anger toward the sultan's excessive
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