Today on this day ( 02 sept 1651), chief and favorite consort & legal wife of Sultan Ahmed I, Kösem Sultan was assassinated in Topkapı Palace while conspiring to dethrone Mehmed IVand replace him wth his brother Süleyman.
Kösem Sultan was one of the most powerful Ottoman woman. She was Haseki Sultan and Valide Sultan.
Kösem Sultan had enjoyed the longest reign of any the Harem women, almost half a century, she was She was Haseki Sultan from 1605 to 1617 and Valide Sultan from 1623 to 1651 (until her death).
Mehmed IV was represented during his minority by two regents, Valide Muazzama Kösem Sultan, his grandmother and the young Valide Sultan Turhan Sultan, his Valide who was only in early twenties.
Both woman ran their own rival factions, each supported by different segments in the military corps. The The Janissaries supported Kösem, but the new grand vizier, Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, and the rest of the palace administration favored Turhan.
Kösem Sultan was killed and died in horror anbject loneliness. With the death of Kösem Sultan, Turhan Sultan’s partisans come to dominante court politics, led mainly by Süleyman Agha, the chief eunuch of the palace.
After her death, her body was taken from Topkapı Palace to the Eşki Saray ( Old Palace) and buried in the mausoleum of her husband Sultan Ahmed I. ✍🏻
