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Kosem Sultan (c. 1590 – 2 September 1651) – Was one of the most powerful women in Ottoman history. Kosem achieved power and influenced the politics of the Ottoman Empire when she became Haseki Sultan as favorite consort and later legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603–1617) and Valide Sultan as the mother of Murad IV (r. 1623–1640) and Ibrahim (r. 1640–1648), and grandmother of Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687). She was one of the prominent figures during the Sultanate of Women. Kosem lived in the Ottoman Em
