Murad, despite having outlawed alcohol, is addicted…
February 1640 CE
Murad, despite having outlawed alcohol, is addicted to drink, on February 8, 1640 causing his premature death at twenty-eight from cirrhosis of the liver.
On his deathbed, he had ordered the execution of his brother, Ibrahim, another of the seven sons of Sultan Ahmed, which would have meant the end of the Ottoman line, but the order is not carried out.
Murad had himself succeeded their older brother Osman II in 1622, and had ordered his three other brothers executed.
Murad possibly gave this order because he thought that Ibrahim, who was mentally ill, was not capable of being a good ruler.
Ibrahim is in any case released from the Kafes and succeeds his brother to the throne.
Probably mentally unstable, he is claimed to have suffered from neurasthenia, and is also depressed after the death of his brother.
His reign is essentially that of his Greek mother, Kösem Sultan, who is no longer hindered in controlling the empire as she willed.
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