The question of the transition of power in the Ottoman Empire, an important issue
shed Ottoman sultans, and occupied their mind for long periods, as they interned them in
the midst of civil conflicts and local war, have been instrumental and head i
n a broad and
fundamental to the regime and the quality of the ruling lines, as have contributed to the
emergence of the forces involved sultans and their influence was able to sneak into the
decision-making centers and succeeded later in the appointment of the sultans and withheld
from their basic tasks in the leadership of the state and society, paving the way for the
conversion of the Ottoman government and the Alslltani Palace to the headquarters of the
rival gangs competing. Doing all effort to harness the potential of all state of the army and
of the financial treasury to buy military alliance and issue decision reflected negatively on
the society in which they toil under a huge financial burden in order to provide the
necessary cash-turned collected main recipe for the rulers and leaders.
Army no longer provides the honor of the empire and sanctifies the sultan to comply
with his orders as spiritual father to them but turned into tools brutalize sultans and take
over others, especially that they were only puppets or animated structures for sultans
helpless unable to take crucial decision.
Struggle for the throne in the Ottoman State started since it was created. Ottoman
sultans tried by all available ways to protect their positions. This explains the various
preventive measures, they adopted, to protect their thrones. Relying on 're
ligious fatwa'
Mohammad the Conqueror issued his law which allowed him to kill his brothers in order to
prevent disfigurement of the national unity. This law stayed in use for a century, till it was
replaced by a new law: keeping all princes under repressive home arrest in the suites In
the palace, called cages. The children of the present sultan were exempted from this
treatment.
This struggle led to many civil wars which contributed to the decline of the
Ottoman State, like the ferocious conflict between the two sons of Sultan Mohammad the
Conqueror.