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TIL Ottoman Sultans were legally allowed to execute their brothers, however the practice ended after 1595, when Mehmet III killed 19 of his brothers in the same evening, the youngest being 11 years old. After this incident, they switched to keeping their male relatives locked in the harem for life

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