Zaporozhian Cossacks
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How did Mehmet IV react to Zaporozhian Cossacks' answer to his submission request?
Isn't it debated as to whether it really happened at all?
>>907317
>OH NO THEY DIDNT
>>907317
Probably not at all, since the whole exchange sounds apocryphal, especially the letter supposedly written by a Sunni Muslim ruler.
Most likely a simple letter was sent demanding surrender, and the Cossacks replied, probably rudely, and the sultan was just told "They declined," and then some romantic generations later thought he'd test his literary talent and exaggerate the entire exchange, making up the most flamboyant (if inauthentic) letter he could from the sultan to purposefully match the slew of invective metaphors in the response.
>>907511
t. Mehmet
>>907641
Anon, reality can't be bribed by the Turkish lobby.
>>907317
>Wow those Mongoloid sure told us :^)
>Wow we sure got Crusaded :^)
>Wow they sure are gonna get Constantinople back :^)
>Wow these Cossack fellas sure are relevant and worth taking seriously :^)
>Wow these guys sure are gonna amount to something and have an impact on history aside from doing the Czars dirty work
t. Sultan Mehmed
