“Turning Points in Middle Eastern History” S:1 E:25 Selim the Grim – 1512

S:1 E:25 Selim the Grim – 1512 Investigate the achievements of this most fearsome and pivotal of Ottoman rulers. Learn how Selim vanquished the threatening Safavid Empire after violently wresting power from his father. Track his dramatic expansionist policy, tripling the Ottoman territories in less than a decade, and his defeat of the Egyptian Mamluks, becoming the first Ottoman Caliph.