Şahkulu (4 September 1475 - 2 March 1512, also spelled Shahkulu), also called Karabıyıkoğlu, was a Turkmen renegade who led the Şahkulu Rebellion of 1511-1512 in Cappadocia.
Biography[]
Verry little is known about the life of the legendary rebel leader Şahkulu, except that he was born into an oppressed Turkmen tribe in eastern Anatolia. Though raised within the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire, Şahkulu fell in with the Templars after an Ottoman ambush left him orphaned and alone.
Raised from youth by Safavid sympathizers, and later Templar ideologues, his hatred for the Ottoman Turks was matched only by his furious determination to eliminate all opposition to Templar ideology. His uncertain partnership with Manuel Palaiologos was formed partly out of a shared sense of ideology and partly out of bitter convenience. The Byzantines, after all, hadn't been much kinder than the Ottomans to his people.
In 1511, Şahkulu equipped a large army to rebel against the Ottoman Empire in the "Şahkulu Rebellion". In a series of ambushes, he defeated two Ottoman armies, but was eventually defeated and forced to retreat to the Cappadocian underground city of Derinkuyu.
Death[]
Şahkulu dies
Şahkulu was attacked by Italian Brotherhood Mentor Ezio Auditore da Firenze while he was brutally interrogating an Ottoman spy named Janos. Ezio jumped from above him and stabbed him in the chest, but Şahkulu strangled him. Ezio killed the rest of the Byzantines, and when Shahkulu attacked him, Ezio counterattacked and stabbed him twice in the chest with his hidden blades, finishing him.