(9) the sultan's palace due to ahmed's son's age at the time a court faction in favor of giving the title to mustafa overruled the opposition and enthroned the new sultan as the first brother to become sultan ahead of their predecessor's sons mustafa had minimal luck in restabilizing the empire often described as having severe mental abnormalities mustafa was influenced by his mother haleem sultan who
obtained notable direct power in his place nonetheless after only a short rule the sultan was ousted by another court faction who chose to instead replace him with his nephew osman ii claiming the role in aged only at the time osman ii was aware of the desperate need to repair the current state of affairs within the empire the young sultan first signed the treaty of sarav with the safavids before personally
leading an incursion into poland which had previously interfered with ottoman vassal states during the moldavian magnet wars though another treaty was necessitated by the ottoman's loss at the battle of chotin in osman was undeterred from his goal to mend the empire's prestige blaming the debased janissary corps for what he deemed inadequacy during the previous ventures the sultan decided to close their coffee shops and slash their pay as punishment osman was unable to follow through on a plan to
overhaul his current forces and create a more reliable army before the outraged janissaries rebelled sultan osman ii was dethroned imprisoned and subsequently strangled to death marking the first sultan assassination performed by the janissaries taking advantage of his nephew's downfall mustafa the first regained his throne in immediately cracking down on all those who were involved in osman's execution
unable to maintain any level of control in the face of growing tensions between the janissaries and sapafi cavalrymen as well as a revolt by the governor general of urzu rum to avenge osmond mustafa's mother ultimately supported a move to oust her son on the condition that he not be killed in the process ahmed the first eleven-year-old son murad iv now ascended the throne in september of though his first years as ruler were mostly dominated by his mother and grand viziers sultan's reign became a beacon of
hope for the restoration of the empire's inner amity and foreign conflict with tenacious ferocity murad was known for his heavy-handed brutality and tendency to only loosely follow the overarching sharia law with the safavids now invading more territory to the southeast the ottomans focused this ruthless grit back onto the war with the persians able to seize azerbaijan tabriz and hamadan even baghdad in
the turks then signed the treaty of zahab the following year the siege of baghdad also brought a notable meeting between sultan murad and two ambassadors from the magal empire exchanging gifts and supplies before sending a handful of ottoman troops to accompany the magals on their own expedition to sarat ironically having banned alcohol tobacco and coffee sultan murad iv eventually succumbed to his own alcohol addiction in seceding his brother ibrahim the first took the throne and quickly moved
to make peace with the safavids and austria in stark contrast by sultan ibrahim had already sparked a war with venice over the island of crete being a fan of extravagance the new sultan's rule brought with it an increase in taxes causing disapproval and resentment within the region while the grand vizier kara mustafa pasha had helped to correct economic deficiencies within the empire before his execution in not enough had been done and the burden caused by ibrahim's expensive intrigues remained after a previous failed attempt to depose the monarch in favor of one of his own sons a janissary rebellion led to the capture of the ultimate assassination
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