SULTAN MUSTAFA THE FIRST

(1592- 1639)

Sultan Moustapha the First was handsome, pale faced and large eyed.
He was enthroned twice, and both lasted only a short period of time. At the time when the Sultan Akhmed the First expired, though the Sultan Moustapha was mentally unbalanced, he was enthroned in lieu of Sultan Osman Khan by some reasons yet not known, but after three months' time of his sultanate, he was dethroned on the fetwa (declaration by a Mufti on point of Islamic
law) of the Grand Mufti of the time, and Sultan Osman Khan, who was called Gench Osman(Osman the Young), too, was raised to his place.
In 1622. on the assasination of the Sultan Osman the Young at Yedikoule after being taken down with some intrigues, Sultan Mustafa Khan (the First) was brought to power again, but he was still mentally unsound.

In his reign the famous Incident of Sultan Akhmed took place:
A brave man shouted at soldiers: "Why, Why did you kill the Sultan Osman the Young?" and with some movements, he caused exactly eighty people die. After some time, the Spahee of Kapikoulou rised against the Empire. Davoud Pasha, known as the murderer of Osman the Young, was executed.

On the 8th of January in 1623, the higher officials of the Osmanli Empire gathered and decided that Sultan Moustapha was by no means able to carry on his mission of sultanate due to his being mentally ill, and thus they got rid of him by dethroning him. In his place, Sultan Amurath the Fourth was made Sultan. Es'ad Effendi, the Grand-Mufti of the time, stated in his fatwa that a man who was mentally unbalanced could never execute the duty of sultanate.
Sultan Moustapha Khan expired sixteen years after he was dethroned when he was 47 years old, and was interred in the yard of the St. Sophia Mosque (May Allah have mercy on his soul!)
He had not any children.