Inayet Giray[notes 1] (1597–1637, reigned 1635–1637) was for two years khan of the Crimean Khanate.
Members of the Giray family living in Turkey were potential replacements if the Turks chose to remove the ruling khan.
Also at this time the steppe warlord Khan Temir was very active and a problem for all his neighbors.
In 1618 the Kalmyks began moving west and reached the Volga around 1630, a process that continued until, perhaps, the fall of 1635.
The newcomers were settled on the steppes north of Perekop, greatly increasing the potential number of Crimean troops.
After reaching the capital he spent several months getting to know the local nobles and organizing the Persian expedition.
In the name of Murad IV, he demanded that the khan immediately lead 60000 Crimeans to Persia, otherwise threatening to execute Inayet and his brothers.
Given this final insult, Inayet called a kurultai[notes 2] in which the khan, nobles and commoners all swore the resist the Turks.
Inayet assumed that they planned to invade when his troops were out of Crimea so he threw the ambassador in jail.
In the summer of 1636 he sent another letter announcing his break with Turkey and offering a kind of subjection in return for a joint war against the Turks.
He told his men to make the best deal they could and fled south to Kiliya, where he stored his treasures, and then on to Istanbul.
At Akkerman Inayet met the Budjaks under Urak, Salman Shah and the sons or brothers[3] of Khan Temir.
The brothers spent a few days feasting with the Budjak leaders at the Jan Kerman fortress.
On the night before the Budjaks were to cross the river the brothers set up their tent on the edge of the camp.
Since he had captured Kaffa and Kiliya, killed a Turkish governor and threatened to attack Istanbul, he had no case.
Khan Temir was sent away to be a governor of a province in Anatolia, but, nine days after Inayet, he was also strangled.