Çınar incident
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Çınar incident is the name of a 17th-century rebellion in the Ottoman Empire. It is also sometimes known as "The Event of the Wakwak", named after a mythical tree on which human beings grew, as an ana
Çınar Vakası
Mehmed IV
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Mehmed IV, nicknamed as Mehmed the Hunter, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the age of six after his father was overthrown in a coup. Mehmed went on to
Çınar incident
…the Cretan War (1645–1669), military expenditures of the Ottoman Empire increased, and the empire began experiencing economic difficulties. Sultan Mehmet IV was only a teenager and the regent, Valide Sultan (queen mother) Turhan Hatice and the short term grand viziers, could not find a solution. Especially…
Portrait, 1682
Depiction of Mehmed IV with the Venetian helmet, by Jacob Koppmayer (1640-1701)
Engraving of a young Mehmed IV
Siege of Candia by the Ottoman army