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SUCCESSION DEPOSITION AND FRATRICIDE: Getting and keeping the throne in the Ottoman Empire was no easy task. For a new sultan, the most foolproof method of securing power was to kill all other claimants.
The author discusses the methods of royal succession in the Ottoman Empire. She mentions the use of fratricide to prevent succession being diverted into another branch of the family, the later trend to imprisonment of brothers, and the use of deposition to eliminate weak sultans.