Sultans and killers .. The blood chain of children and brothers a bloody history in the Ottoman Empire

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But the sultans of the Ottomans increased the ugliness of the ugliest and the most evil of any of the wranglers against the king in the history of Muslims, is the heresy of killing the Sultan's brothers at the time of his birth, and uprooting them all to the infants, and In order to avoid sedition rival Khalifa on the king, which corrupt the state and weaken them according to their argument.

Among the pictures of the conflict that was mentioned about the history of the Ottoman state, what is mentioned by the writer and the constitutional jurist Rajai Attia, in his book "Blood on the Wall of Power," referring to "Bayezid" son of Suleiman the legalist feared for himself of the ambitions of his brother Salim son of Roxilana and found or explained that his fate When he was defeated he fled to Persia, but the Persian Shah handed him over. His fate was suspended in 1561, and his five sons, who were slaughtered, protected the throne.

Sultan Sulayem al-Aw, one of the most violent sultans, was the one who ended his life with a black page with his son the prince, the crown prince who became Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, when he received an fatwa to kill him to preserve the throne. Then he sent a poisoned cloak to him but his mother saved him before wearing it. , While the "proper" rise of the throne was on the body of his two brothers Prince Korkud and Ahmed, where the latter crown prince.

But Selim was able to attract the Pashawats and the Assyrians, who were the powerful ones to bring him to the throne after fighting with his two brothers, who allied themselves with the Safavids on the one hand, and with some on the other, ordering their execution between his struggle for the throne and his coming to power.

Sultan Selim Khan II, the eleventh Sultan of the Mamluk Sultans and the son of Rokselana of Russia, took over the throne after the death of his father Sulayman al-Yawili. He was not able to follow his conquests. Murad III, the twelve Ottoman sultans, and began the reign of the last in 1574, and began his work to prohibit the drinking of wine, and then allowed the revolution of Anacharism, and then killed his five brothers, to secure his property from the dispute and then engaged in fighting Agam

Sultan Mohammed Khan III, was also almost to take over the Sultanate of the death of his father in 1599, until he strangled his nineteen brothers, but he strangled them before burying his father, and buried them together towards "Hagia Sophia" and did not save him a trace other than the heinous massacre, The king, but he died in his youth when he was 37.

Sultan Ahmed, who came after his father Sultan Mohammad Khan III, the 14th caliph of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, came to the Sultanate of Palms, but he did not exceed fourteen in the few, but did not order the killing of his brother Mustafa, but only reserved between the servants and neighbors, At the age of twenty-eight, he recommended the king after him to his brother Mustafa.

The book "The Ottoman flags" by Ahmad al-Sharqawi, indicates that Sultan Murad Khan, who ruled for more than twenty years, had children of his own unless he had other sultans, numbering one hundred and two, of whom nineteen were killed on the day of sitting, They buried the biggest of them, Mustafa Khan.

In his book "Muslims and European Modernity," the writer says that the end of Sultan Selim III came a year after his isolation when his nephew Mustafa IV came to power and ordered the killing of Salim and his brother Mahmud. Salim was brutally killed, He was able to escape to become the new Sultan.

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