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Mustafa was confronted with either appearing before his father and possibly being killed, or refusing to attend and be accused of betrayal. In the end, Mustafa chose to enter his father tent, confident the support of the army would protect him. Busbecq who claims to have received an account from an eyewitness, describes Mustafa’s final moments as follows:
{{cquote|Mustafa entered, the drama commences, and he was seized on very side. But the prince, in the moment he believed would be his last, regained his strength and was animated with heroic courage. …Mustafa’s ardent desire to live and reign made him invincible, although alone against them all; the result of the combat was still uncertain, but Suleiman, on the other side impatient for success, raised his head above the hanging and saw this mutes were ready to succumb; his fears were greatly increased and he looked menacingly at them, his eyes full of anger, and filled with cruelty at the lack of courage…They instantly threw themselves on Mustafa for a second time, knocked him straight down and snatched his life from him
The two surviving brothers, Bayezid and Selim were given command in different parts of the empire. Within a few years however, civil war broke out between them, each backed by their own loyal forces. With the aid of his fathers forces, Selim defeated Bayezid in Konya in 1559, clearing the path for Selim’s succession to the throne. It was not until 1566 however, that Suleiman would enter his final year. Having set out from Istanbul to lead the largest force he had ever commanded to Hungary, Suleiman would die in his tent in Sziget in Hungary.
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