August 1473 – 1475
Karaman ends, 1473–1475
On 24 August 1473 Mehmed marches to Şebinkarahisar. When his guns open fire on the walls, its lord Darab Bey surrenders the castle, and Mehmed leaves 1,000 men there with plenty of supplies. From Şebinkarahisar he sends letters that announce his victory, among them a decree of 30 August to the Turkomans of Anatolia, written in the Uyghur script.
The castle of Şebinkarahisar on its rockWikimedia Commons, Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Castle of Şebinkarahisar 02.JPG)
In 1474 Mehmed dismisses the grand vizier Mahmud Pasha and has him executed, and Gedik Ahmed Pasha takes his place. Gedik Ahmed takes Ermenek and the other castles that the Karaman princes still hold in the Taurus, and the lands around Niğde and Develi. Pir Ahmed gives up and goes to the Aq Qoyunlu, who give him a fief at Bayburt, where he dies in 1474. His brother Kasım holds Silifke and the coast for a while with Venetian help and loses his last lands in 1475.
Mehmed's son Mustafa falls ill after the campaign and dies at Bor near Niğde on 25 December 1474. He is buried at Bursa, and his brother Cem becomes governor of Karaman at Konya. Uzun Hasan's son Uğurlu Mehmed rebels against his father in 1474, and in 1475 he flees to Mehmed, who makes him governor of Sivas and gives him his daughter Gevherhan in marriage.
The tomb built for Mehmed’s son Mustafa at the Muradiye of Bursa, later called the tomb of CemWikimedia Commons, Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Cem Sultan tomb 7954.jpg)
Mehmed II and Uğurlu Mehmed, the son of Uzun Hasan, in the Hünername, 1584–1588Wikimedia Commons, Mehmed Bey, Public domain (II Mehmed and Ughurlu Muhammed.png)
Sources
- Ibn Kemal, Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân (early 16th century).
- Abu Bakr Tihrani, Kitab-i Diyarbakriyya (late 15th century).
- Aşıkpaşazade, Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân (late 15th century).
- Giovanni Maria Angiolello, Historia Turchesca (about 1490).
- İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı, Anadolu Beylikleri ve Akkoyunlu, Karakoyunlu Devletleri (1937).
- Franz Babinger, Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time (1978).
- Theoharis Stavrides, The Sultan of Vezirs: The Life and Times of the Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelovic, 1453–1474 (2001).
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