Kafes

The Kafes ( Ottoman قفس, IA cafes, "cage" ), the so-called " Prince prison," was a separate area in the Harem of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, the Ottoman prince (Turkish Şehzade ) were imprisoned. The institution served after the abolition of fratricide law that Mehmed II had introduced the scheme of succession and reduce the number of candidates, as the Ottomans knew no division of territory by inheritance and succession by the eldest son to the 18th century did not exist. In particular, the mental derangement Mustafa I and Ibrahim the Mad be regarded as an example of the ineffectiveness and the negative effects of cafe.