Hatice Turhan: Historical novel: Book 2: Sultan-Ukrainian on the Ottoman throne

The mother of one of the descendants of the famous Roxolana was a Ukrainian woman from Podillya - Nadiya, who was named Hatice Turhan in the harem of Sultan Ibrahim the Mad. She lived in the turbulent years of the mid-seventeenth century, full of uprisings in the provinces of the Ottoman Empire, the riots of the Janissaries in Constantinople. Unfortunately, the figure of this sultan is little known in Ukraine. (2017) Oleksandra Shutko wrote a three-part novel about Hatice Turhan based on historical facts, archival materials and research by Turkish, American and Western European scholars. After the execution of his mother-in-law, the great valiant Kocem, Hatice Turhan became the regent of the minor son of Sultan Mehmed IV and effectively ruled the Ottoman state.

Africa and Europe. She paid great attention to Polish-Ukrainian relations. It was during her regency that Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky received the Ottoman protectorate. However, he soon sided with the Muscovites. But even this did not spoil his "friendship" with the Ottomans.
Hatice Turhan became the last representative of the "Female Sultanate" in the Ottoman Empire, founded by Roxolana.
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