Final Theme

I realise I must have changed my theme a million times by now, but this is my final theme. This is Kosem Sultan. She was born (under the name Anastasia) and raised by a priest in Tinos, Greece. When she was a young girl, Ottoman Pirates came and raided her home town, and took many of the healthy villagers away to be sold into slavery and the young girls to be concubines in Constantipole (now Istanbul). Many saw the life of a concubine to be better than their daily lives, but only if you could enter the harem, of the current Sultan. Kosem entered he harem of Ahmed I, due to her beauty and grace. The Sultan took a shine to her, and eventually made her, his wife. When he died in 1617 she was transferred to the old palce, but she was consumed by the power she wanted more of it. She got her wish when in 1623 her son Murad IV, came to the throne but as he was still a minor the power came to Kosem and she became the first of two women in history who ruled the Ottoman Empire officially and alone.Murad IV also craved the power and feared his brothers might take the throne from him, so he ordered the deathof his brothers. Ibrahim I was spared possibly because Kosem saved him, or Murad IV thought he was too unstable to be a threat. When Ibrahim I entered the throne in 1640 he was too unstable to rule alone so Kosem still had the power, and she loved it. However Kosem knew that eventually Ibrahim I would be disposed of and she would have no heirs to the throne left, so she persuaded her son to find a woman and have a son. The son was born and named Mehmed IV, and at the right time she presented him to the Divan and said "Here he is! See what you can do with him!". The problem was Mehmed IV's mother Turhan Hatice. She craved the power that Kosem had, and Kosem knew that she would have to find a replacement for Mehmed IV, with a more quiet mother. However Turhan caught news of the plot and decided to have Kosem killed. Kosem stuffed jewels in her pockets and ran thruogh the maze of the harem, and hid in a small cabinet, to hide form the Janissaries (Turkish Soldiers). Her skirt got caught in the door of the cabinet and she was spotted. They pulled herout, tore her clothes, stole her jewels, and then strangled her with a curtain. Then they took her lifeless body outside for all soldiers to see. Alot of poeple mourned for days and sometimes weeks.Turkish curtain, used to kill Kosem.

She was the most powerful woman ever in Ottoman history.