« The Third Period of the Ottoman Safavid Conflict: Struggle of Political Ideologies (1555-1578) », in : Éva M. Jeremiás, ed., Irano-Turkic Cultural Contacts in the 11th – 17th Centuries. Piliscsaba, [2002] 2003, pp. 161-176.

This article concentrates on the period 1555-78 in Ottoman-Safavid relations, the interval between the Peace of Amasia and the Lala Mustafa Pasha’s campaign against Iran. The author considers this a period of a “struggle for political ideologies”, arguing that with the accession of Sultan Mehmet II, the Ottomans had begun to project themselves as legitimate claimants to world domination. The objective was to legitimize their conquests and projected conquests of Iranian territory. Part of this..