Battle of Koçhisar
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The Battle of Koçhisar (Turkish: Koçhisar Muharebesi) took place on May 1516 nearby Kızıltepe and ended with a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. It marked the halt of the Safavid expansion to the west. The Koçhisar battle was just the one of 41 years of destructive war, which only ended in 1555 with the Treaty of Amasya. Safavid commander Karahan Ustajlu killed at the battlefield and his most of men slaughtered by the Ottomans.
At Koçhisar, the Ottomans had a musketmans and artillery while the Safavid army did not have artillery nor musketman. Karahan Ustajlu (brother of Safavid Governor of Diyarbakır Mohammad Khan Ustajlu who killed at the Battle of Chaldiran) the commander of the Safavid army, was killed during the battle. After this defeat; Mardin, Urfa, Hasankeyf, Raqqa, Mosul and more important city besieged and captured by the Bıyıklı Mehmed Pasha’s army.
References
Sources
- Hoca Sadeddin Efendi. (1585). Tâcü’t-Tevârîh - IV. İstanbul ISBN 9751710979
- Göyünç, N. (1969). XVI’ncı Yüzyılda Mardin Sancağı. İstanbul: İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi. ISBN 9789751604026
- T.C. Genelkurmay Başkanlığı. (1990). Yavuz Sultan Selim ve Mısır Seferi. Ankara: Genelkurmay Basımevi.
- https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/biyikli-mehmed-pasa
