Çınar incident

Especially after the execution of the reformist grand vizier Tarhoncu Ahmet Pasha, who tried to cut back palace expenditures, the only solution proposed was a devaluation.

But even then, payment to some soldiers was delayed as much as nine months and the markets in Istanbul refused to accept the red coins.

During the meeting, they presented a list of 30 men, whom they thought responsible for the economic crisis, and wanted executed.

They killed most of the people on the list, hanging them from a big Platanus orientalis tree (Turkish: çınar).

Before the Çınar Incident, ten grand viziers had been appointed in a rapid sequence in eight years between 1648 and 1656, since Mehmet's accession.