Warsword
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Mehmed II
editI know the poisoning story. I asked if you have any academic sources about it. A Yahoo search which shows websites like Haber7 and İlknokta is not what I want. You also have to find an English text about Yakup Pasha, even a little account about his alleged crime would be okay, in an academic text. Deliogul 14:21, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
There's the link in Britannica which says "there are indications he was poisoned", but without naming Yakup Pasha:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-4754/Mehmed-II
Mehmed had assumed the title of Kayser-i Rum (Roman Caesar) and, at the same time, described himself as “the lord of the two lands and the two seas” (i.e., Anatolia and the Balkans, the Aegean and the Black seas), a designation that reflected his idea of the empire. During the quarter-century after the fall of Constantinople, he undertook a series of campaigns or expeditions in the Balkans, Hungary, Walachia, Moldavia, Anatolia, the island of Rhodes, and even as far as the Crimea and Otranto in southern Italy. This last enterprise (1480) indicated that he intended to invade Italy in a new attempt at founding a world empire. The following spring, having just begun a new campaign in Anatolia, he died 15 1/2 miles (25 kilometres) from Constantinople. Gout, from which he had suffered for some time, in his last days had tortured him grievously, but, there are indications that he was poisoned.
Warsword 14:28, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
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- Hello. If really you aren't a sockpuppet I'll apologise and of course unblock you, but we've had a lot of problems with an extremely persistent sockpuppeter who has the exact same editing interests you have, so the suspicion is pretty strong. You were repeating his precise edits on Ottoman Empire. Can you contact me by e-mail? Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:20, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
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