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"Imagine, if you lived for years in fear of the executioner in the sweat of death, you would have neither reason nor ideas! Yes, Ibrahim Khan thought that they were coming to strangle him and said, 'You don't care about me, I don't need a throne or sultanate!' Thank you my brother!' He didn't want to leave his room. Thereupon, his mother, Kösem Valide Sultan, came and broke down the door. Even though she swore that Murad had committed suicide, she could not convince him. Finally, Valide Sultan and Kapıağası became helpless and grabbed the poor man by his arms, dragged him to Murad Khan's room and showed him his body, and he believed so!”