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A day before the setting up the sultan’s tent in
Uskudar the yeniceris gathered in the Suleymaniye. The yeniceris rebelled and they
attacked the palace and killed some state officials. Sultan Osman tried reconcile the
yeniceris. But, they rejected his authority. They dethroned him and enthroned his brother
Mustafa I for the second time. The rebels were not planing to kill the sultan. But the
chiefs of the revolt knew that Osman was a powerful sultan and he would have been a danger
in the future. They brought him to the Yedikule Dungeons and killed him there. Osman so
bravely struggled against his eight executioners but he was strangled. His funeral was
held in Sultan Ahmed Mosque the next day and he was buried in his father’s tomb in the
same mosque. Sultan Osman’s murder caused many revolts in Anatolia. The Ottoman people
never tolerated the murder of the sultan enthroned at the most beautiful days at his youth
and always worked for the welfare of his nation. But his youth and inexperienced
administrations, prepared him this horrible end.
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