Yeni eri A as K se Mehmet A a ve Muhallefat ///Janissary Agha K se Mehmet and His Possessions

K se Mehmed Agha was raised among the Janissary corps in the beginning of the seventeenth century and he rose to the rank of Agha of the Janissaries. When Sultan Murad IV was threatened to be deposed as the crisis of payment for the accession to the throne (cül s) got worse, K se Mehmed Agha saved the Sultan’s life and helped him to stay on the throne as he stood with the Sultan against the Janissaries. In the aftermath, he became a trusted man of Murad IV for a while and carried out Murad’s notorious coercive administration methods. Once K se Mehmed made a mistake, he was executed and his properties were confiscated. The list of Agha’s high quality possessions indicates that a high-ranking Ottoman officer could easily amass massive wealth but the result of a big mistake in a high office would be fatal.