1 Ocak 2019 Dergi makalesi Açık Erişim

Atcil, Zahit

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{
  "DOI": "10.1163/18775462-01001006", 
  "abstract": "The Amasya Treaty (1555) ended a half-century of Ottoman-Safavid military and ideological rivalry during the sixteenth century. My paper focuses on why the Ottoman and Safavid empires made this treaty despite a long-standing ideological and political divide. It has been widely held that the Safavids could not afford such a costly rivalry and, tired of the Ottoman military campaigns, they pleaded with the Ottomans to make peace. Based on my comparative research in Ottoman, Persian, and European sources, I find that this narrative misses many essential points and omits certain historical facts just before the treaty was signed. I argue that the Ottomans also wished for and, at once, requested peace with the Safavids. I show that, although the Ottoman army ostensibly left Istanbul to fight with the Safavids in 1553, the primary motive was to use warfare as a diplomatic tool to force the Safavids to ask for peace.", 
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Atcil", 
      "given": " Zahit"
    }
  ], 
  "container_title": "TURKISH HISTORICAL REVIEW", 
  "id": "67701", 
  "issue": "1", 
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2019, 
        1, 
        1
      ]
    ]
  }, 
  "page": "3-24", 
  "title": "Warfare as a Tool of Diplomacy: Background of the First Ottoman-Safavid Treaty in 1555", 
  "type": "article-journal", 
  "volume": "10"
}