Ughurlu Muhammad Beg or Ughurlu Mehmed ( az, Uğurlu Məhəmməd bəy; fa, اغورلو محم بیگ; tr, Uğurlu Mehmed Bey; d. 1477) was a prince of the
Aq Qoyunlu
The Aq Qoyunlu ( az, Ağqoyunlular , ) was a culturally Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750'', (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two tribal confederations: Akkoyunlu (Wh ...
, son of
Uzun Hassan and Jan Khatun. As the eldest son to Uzun Hasan, he governed the city of
Shiraz and desired to be the ruler of the Aq Qoyunlu after the death of his father. Nevertheless, his stepmother Seljuk Shah Khatun, another wife of Uzun Hasan, prevented this. She always slandered Ughurlu Muhammad to Uzun Hasan ti favor her own son,
Khalil. Afterwards, he rebelled against his father and took refuge to the
Ottoman Empire.
Mehmed the Conqueror welcomed him and got him married to his daughter
Gevherhan Hatun.
Ahmad Beg was born from this marriage. Mehmed II gave him
Sivas to rule, but was killed near Erzincan in the year 1477.
Battle of Otlukbeli
Ughurlu Muhammad commanded the left wing of the Aq Qoyunlu army. He prevented
Şehzade Bayezid's attacks, where he fiercely defended a stream between the Ottomans and his troops and prevented Şehzade Bayezid from crossing their side. Later, when he heard that his father had escaped and his brother was killed, he also withdrew from the battlefield.
References
1477 deaths
Year of birth unknown
People of the Aq Qoyunlu
Damats
Ottoman governors of Sivas
Defectors
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