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Speedy deletion nomination of Assassination of Kösem Sultan
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Sehzade Mehmed
Baki Tezcan proved that Mehmed was the son of Kösem in "The Debut of Kösem Sultan's Political Career" in 2007. This is the most recent historical thesis and currently shared by historians, thus surpassing that of Leslie Pierce on which I believe you are based. So the firstborn and first son of Kosem and Ahmed is Mehmed, not Aise. It is correctly indicated on the pages of Ahmed I, on the same page as Mehmed and on wikis in other languages. Unless you can provide further evidence that is more valid or up-to-date than what you state, please stop deletion without explanation whenever I try to refresh the page as if you are the sole holder of knowledge on the subject and please note that there might be something you don't know and that others do. I have provided the source and explanation for my modification, you have not. If you have an incontrovertible source I'm wrong, provide it. I accept the possibility, but I want the source and proof that it is certain beyond doubt. If, on the other hand, you do not have any, they are outdated or simply give another historiographic interpretation but they are not incontrovertible then leave my modification and limit yourself to indicating in a note that the matter is controversial if you not avere with maternity attribution. Wikipedia grows with everyone's contributions, you are not the only owner of the page and deleting all the changes of others or asking for changes to be blocked makes you seem very immature, especially when you have already been reprimanded for violations. Thank you.

Hello, and please accept my apologies for the inconvenience. The issue with Sehzade Mehmed is that he is not mentioned as the son of Kösem in any of the contemporary sources of any traveler or ambassador. Ahmed married Kösem in 1605, and she gave birth to her first daughter, Ayse Sultan, in the same year. In 1616, the Venetian diplomat Bertuccio Valier stated that the sultan refused to allow the two eldest princes (Osman and Mehmed) to converse with Kösem. It would be absurd for Ahmed to refuse her request to communicate with any of her sons, especially given she was close to him at the time and had a lot of influence over how the state was administered.

The second and last reason was that Osman II ordered Sehzade Mehmed's execution. Who, like Ahmed, was deeply devoted to Kösem. If Osman really wanted to kill her sons, he would have murdered Murad, Suleiman, Kash, and Ibrahim as well, but he didn't because he respected her.

I don't consider this page to be "owned" by me; I simply wanted to spread the word about her and her life to as many people as possible. Everyone is invited to make an edit, but please double-check your facts before doing so, and consult reliable sources such as Leslie P. Pierce and other renowned historians and researchers on the subject. We're searching for facts, not assertions.

If you have anymore inquiries, please do keep on contacting me. Thank you very much. Jacob Historian (talk) 17:33, 20 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Honestly, I think the solution is to rearrange the section to show the controversies, which I set out in the Talk section of the article titled Kosem's child and as has already been done for the pages of Ahmed I and Mehmed himself. I guessed you were based on L. Pierce, which I read, but her works are very old. If much remains valid, some of her ideas, theses and conjectures have been overcome, or they are not the only ones considered valid in the historical environment and there are alternative theses of other historian just as possible. Her work is the most famous in the West, but if you turn to material published in Turkish it is not without competition of High level (and there are some other good work in english, too), And her theses do not have universal historical consensus, although I have noticed that many in the West seem to think so. as often happens in historiography, especially in an open field such as the Ottoman genealogy. I have provided a source for my edit, which I refer to you under text. The author, B.Tezcan, is a university professor, he is Turkish, his work is more recent and is well regarded in historical circles. He has worked with many contemporary sources, more than Pierce's, and the reasoning and evidence presented holds up. I don't think it's right to immediately discard it as a source as if I had cited an authorless post on a social network. There are also several indirect references that indicate how, in all likelihood, Kosem may have been Mehmed's mother, such as mentions of her as the mother of Ahmed's second son, but dated before Murad's birth. I have sources for two or three of these references, although not immediately. But if you are interested, I can research them. I think it deserves at least to be taken into consideration. Pierce is a Great valid historian, but she is not the only one, she is not free from possibility of errors or outdated and and I think it needs at least to take into account the updating work.
 * If you have compelling reasons for rejecting this author as invalid, the sources he presents and his reasoning I'd like to hear them, but if it is simply a matter of preferring a different and older text, then I believe that things are different and should at least be both arguments presented.
 * Otherwise it would be unfair to present Pierce's works as composed only of incontrovertible facts, even if in reality his works have a lot of the tone of personal statements and the boundary between facts and personal theses is not always clear, and that of another historian titled as simple speculations.
 * Example: Other evidence used to support the thesis that Mehmed was not Kosem's son is also not incontrovertible, but interpretative. It has been said that Kosem was not her mother because her reaction to Mehmed's death is not mentioned and because Osman only executed Mehmed. But the logical reasoning can easily lead elsewhere: Kosem's reaction may not have been mentioned simply because it was unknown, given that she was isolated in Eski Saray at the time. As for the execution itself, I actually find it more logical to execute a half-brother first than a full brother. Full brothers were a relative novelty in the dynasty. and heirs. Murad III and Mehmed III had only sisters and Ahmed I's brother died of other causes. It is easier to think that a common mother and blood bond served as a deterrent to fraticide than a half-brother who might be hostile and eager to save the mother from segregation. Selim II and Bayezid also did not enter into open conflict until after the death of Mustafa and his mother Hurrem). Apart from that, the danger Mehmed posed was that he was an adult, not his mother. Osman was not popular, but while Mustafa I was insane and all of Ahmed I's other children were children, Mehmed was a prime candidate for a second coup. Probably, the other children were saved because they were still children and Osman had no children at the time. If Osman had lived longer and had grown up sons, perhaps he would have executed Murad and the others as well.

This is my reasoning, yes, but also an example of how, starting from the same sources, it is possible to arrive at different conclusions. I am training as a historian, specializing precisely in the use and interpretation and analysis of sources, and I have often found myself in front of equally prestigious historians who, from the same sources, had drawn very different reasoning and interpretations, but both well argued and valid, and therefore neither of the two was neither eliminable nor to be considered irrefutable at present. I was also taught that it is also necessary to take into account that many documents have not been published and that, assuming you know their existence and location, you must consult in person. This is not always possible, so much information is still unknown or little known, but documents could easily be discovered that debunk the current theses. Not to mention the problem of source selection itself, another thing that separates LP and BT here, as I mentioned earlier.
 * All this to explain that historical research is a field not only in progress, but also devoid of many certainties, and that the best choice is always to take into consideration as many sources as possible, both contemporary and modern, to have a clear and complete picture..
 * Source for Mehmed: Tezcan, Baki (2007). "The Debut of Kösem Sultan's Political Career". Turcica. Éditions Klincksieck. 39–40: 350–351. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.156.255.6 (talk) 09:48, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Please don't use "curly quotes"
Hello, Jacob Historian. This is to let you know that your repeated addition of "curly quotes" to the article Kösem Sultan is disruptive and you should stop it. Wikipedia uses "plain quotes" like this: "elder" - not "curly quotes" like this: “elder”. Another example: it should be 'Visage of the Moon', not ‘Visage of the Moon’. Please see MOS:CURLY. Many people have corrected your punctuation, but you persist in restoring the curly “elder” type of quotation marks. Please stop it. You requested page protection, but you are the one who is "ruining the format". -- MelanieN (talk) 00:57, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

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