CHANDARLY HALIL PASHA


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Chandarly Halil Pasha

You stupid Greeks, I have known your cunning ways for long enough. The late sultan was a lenient and conscientious friend to you. The present sultan Mehmed II is not of the same mind. If Constantinople eludes his bold and impetuous grip, it will only be because God continues to overlook your devious and wicked schemes. You are fools to think that you can frighten us with your fantasies and that when the ink on our recent treaty of peace is barely dry. We are not children without strength or sense. If you think that you can start something, do so. If you want to proclaim Orhan as sultan in Thrace, go ahead. If you want to bring the Hungarians across the Danube, let them come. If you want to recover places that you lost long since, try it. But know this: you will make no headway in any of these things. All that you will do is lose what little you have
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Young Mehmed II, had just replaced his dead father as Ottoman Turkish Sultan. Constantine XI had threatened to finance a cousin of Mehmed’s, Orhan and back his challenge to Mehmed for the Sultanate in order to put pressure on the young Sultan to renegotiate a treaty that had been signed with Mehmed’s father. It was a very ham-handed diplomatic effort, The Grand Vizier was the main force in the Ottoman Government counseling the new Sultan against war and an attack on Byzantium. He was furious as the Emperor’s action had weakened his influence with the young Sultan, who after he captured Byzntium later in the year, had his Grand Vizier executed.

Chandarly Halil Pasha

Your power, which is already very great, you can increase more by peace than by war. For the outcome of war is uncertain. More often you see adversity rather than prosperity accompany it.
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