…Murad is placed on the throne by…

…Murad is placed on the throne by non-Ottoman but politically powerful Turkish notables who had joined the Ottoman state during the first century of its existence.

Murad, only eighteen when he becomes sultan, soon begins to resent the power they have gained in return.

He counters by beginning to build up the power of various non-Turkish groups in his service, particularly those composed of Christian slaves and converts to Islam, whose military arm is the Janissary corps.