A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN OTTOMAN AND SAFAVI BEFORE THE CHALDIRAN WAR

The struggle for dominance among powerful Turkish States, when evaluated on the frame of Turkish World Dominance Conception, has existed in all periods of the history. As an example, the intercourse between Yildirim Bayazid (1389 – 1402) and Timur (1370 – 1405) in the first period of the 15th century and the intercourse between Fatih (1451 – 1481) and Uzun Hasan (1453 – 1478) in the second half of the 15th century can be shown. One of these kinds of intercourse was between the Ottoman Empire and Safavi State founded in Azerbaijan in the first period of the 16th century. Different from the antecedents, The Ottoman and Safavi intercourse gives the vision that it left more traces. Some European countries being active in this struggle for hegemony are sometimes seen. Besides, the relations between The Ottoman and Safavi of this period have been analyzed only approaching this matter only from one side for a long time. Recent researches in this matter foresaw the relations between the Ottoman and Safavi in the first periods of 16th century to be researched from different aspects.