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Contemporary sources clearly indicate that Turgutlu had always been against the<br />

Ottoman rule. 391 In the first confrontation of the Karamanids with the Ottomans in 1386-<br />

7, they fought in the left wing of the Karamanid army. 392 Turgutoğlu Ali Beg’s utterance<br />

in the battlefield, as reported by Şikârî, truly reflects the attitude of the Turgutlu tribe, as<br />

well as other Turkoman tribes of Anatolia, towards the Ottomans:<br />

Turgutoğlu Ali Bey meydana girüb Murad Bey’i çağırdı. Didi ki: “Ey Murad<br />

Bey! Karamanoğlu değilmidir ki senin pederini Germiyanoğlu habsinden çıkardı.<br />

Tabl u alem ve nakkāre virdi. Şimdi nice cenk idersin ve Tekfur-ı Konstantin’den<br />

iki kāfir beyin neye neye yardımcı aldın, Müslüman üstüne geldin? Müslüman<br />

olan kāfir askerin yardımcı mı idinür?” 393<br />

In all of the later battles between the two powers, the Turgutlu always constituted<br />

a significant portion of the Karamanid army. Turgutlu’s hostility against the Ottomans<br />

was equally reciprocated in the Ottoman side by the fact that when he dispatched an<br />

army to finish the Karamanid rule, Mehmed II ordered his commander Mahmud Pasha<br />

to extirpate Turgut forces. 394<br />

Ottoman historians always pursue a despising attitude against the Turgutlu tribe<br />

and describe them as stubborn, wild, arrogant, and ‘uncivilized’ people. Suffice it to<br />

refer to Aşıkpaşazāde’s description of Turgutlu troops in the Ottoman army at the battle<br />

of Kosovo in 1444. Ibrahim Beg of Karaman dispatched an auxiliary force to Murad II<br />

391<br />

Oral, “Turgut oğulları”, p. 155.<br />

392<br />

Sümer, “Turgutlular”, p. 121. Also consider Anonim Tevârih-i Al-i Osman, Giese Neşri, p. 22; Anonim<br />

Osmanlı Kroniği (1299-1512), pp. 25-6.<br />

393<br />

Şikârî, p. 158.<br />

394<br />

Although Mahmud Pasha pillaged Turgut-eli in 1463, most of Turgutlu fighters managed to flee to<br />

Tarsus with their leader. Aşıkpaşazāde writes, “Padişah Mahmud Paşa’ya eydür: ‘Durgutoğlınun<br />

kandalığın bil! Dahı üzerine var!’ dedi. Durgutlu dahı Bulgar Dağı’na çıkmış idi. Mahmud Paşa dahı<br />

bunlarun kandalığın habarın aldı. Üzerlerine yüridi. Bunlar dahı duydılar kaçdılar. Darsus tarafına<br />

aşdılar. Mahmud Paşa dahı koyub ardından yetüb alıbildüğin alıkodılar, alınmayanlar varub Darsus<br />

Eli’ne girdiler.” See APZ, p. 216. Also consider Sümer, “Turgutlular”, p. 121; Oral, “Turgut oğulları”, p.<br />

157.<br />

144

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