Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' inheritance to the Roman Empire through his conquest of Constantinople.

Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks: As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the sun and moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper ...

Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV. The Cossack’s defiant, mocking and vulgar reply to the Sultan is often recounted in the following terms: Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!