In January 1481, Mehmed II gathered an army from Anatolia, but shortly after his departure, Mehmed II fell ill and died, leaving the Ottoman Empire once again in a struggle for heirs. His two sons, Bayezid and Jem, went to war for the succession to the throne, Bayezid II ascended the throne with the support of the Legion of Yeniceri, Jem rebelled from Bursa, and fled with his wife and mother (Mehmed II's concubine) to Cairo under the Mamluk king.'
Statue of Bayezid II
After Bayezid II ascended the throne, he revived his finances to avoid exhaustion, allowing the Ottoman Empire to recover slightly from its depleted national strength at the end of Mehmed II, while he also made every effort to renew the weapons of the army and navy, and won the naval battle against Venice, which determined the Ottoman Empire's future naval power in the eastern Mediterranean.
In 1492, King Ferdinand II of Spain ordered the expulsion of all Jews from the territory, and Bayezid II immediately sent the Ottoman navy to Spain to safely send the Jews expelled by Spain to the Ottoman Empire. He placed the Jews in the ottoman provinces and ordered the provinces of the empire to treat the Jews kindly and forbid anti-Semitism, or the death penalty. The arrival of these Jews, who had been expelled by Spain, also brought new ideas and new technologies into the Ottoman Empire and strengthened the national strength of the Ottoman Empire.
In 1495, Jem died in Naples, and his body became a bargaining chip in the political negotiations between the Pope and various political forces in Europe with Bayezid II, and four years later, Jem's body was transported back to the country and buried in Bursa, accompanying their brother Mustafa, who died young. After Jem's death, Bayezid II treated his mother, wife, and daughter well, but All but one of Jem's sons who fled to Rhode Island were hanged by Bayezid II.
Bayezid II had a new power in the east of the empire. The Safavid dynasty, holding high the Shiite flag, challenged Ottoman rule over Anatolia from the front. The Persian Safavid Empire was established in 1501, followed by the elimination of the Aries dynasty in West Asia, the entry into the Iranian plateau, and then in 1508 into Iraq and the capture of Baghdad.
In 1511, Shakur, a fellow Safavid dynasty, rebelled in Xianatolia, and the situation became grim.
In 1512, Selim I ascended the throne, one of his greatest contributions, bringing Libya under the Ottomans
Shakur's army soon defeated the army of Prince Korku, the son of Bayezid II, so Bayezid II sent another prince, Ahmet, to lead an army to suppress the Shakur Rebellion, and in the process of counterinsurgency, the Prime Minister was killed and the Imperial army suffered heavy losses. The process of counterinsurgency was also the process of the loss of trust by the legions of Yeniceri and Prince Ahmed, the candidates for the next sultan, Prince Selim, who came to the top and became more and more supportive.
After quelling the Shakkur Rebellion, Prince Ahmed was blocked out of the city by the Army of Yeniceri and could not even cross the Bosphorus, and was forced to return to Anatolia. Selim, who was entrenched in the Crimean Peninsula, finally forced his father to abdicate, and Bayezid II, knowing that the tide was over, returned to Thrace immediately after taking the throne. But less than a month after returning, he died suddenly. Selim I's decisive role in the seizure of the throne was played by the Legion of Yeniceri.
The reigning Selim I led an army to defeat the two brothers and kill them along with their children. This practice of brotherly slaughter in the Ottoman Empire caused the blood of the Ottoman royal family to lose many branches.
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Reference: Kodansha: Five Hundred Years of Peace in the Ottoman Empire
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