The Offices and the Action of Amirkhan Torkaman in the Safavi era and His Final

Amir Khane Turkaman, the descendant of Amir Khan-e Moslow was one of the Turkaman tribe's chieves, who was elected as his tribe's chief in the era of the rein of Shah Esmaeel the second Because of his contribution in the murder of Shah Esmaeel the second and as a sign of gratitude he received the title of Amir Al-Omara (=the Head Governor) of Azerbayejan by Shah Mohammad Khodabandeh and was united in matrimony with Shah Mohammad Khodabandeh's sister (or daughter) Fatemeh Beigom Soltan. In order to maintain his position, Amir Khan held a peace contract with other tribo's chieves and pretended that in order to support and to strengthen the Safavi Government there should be unionship among tribe's chieves. Whit in his sovereignty extent, he became so powerful and influential that was closed to crown prince, Hamze Mirza, and became of the reliable men of his. This led to the jealousy of others especially the commanders ostajh and shamloo and finally cansed his deposal and then he was imprisoned in Ghah Ghaheh castel. This led to aggrouation of disputes among the biggest Ghezelbash tribes. They were increasingly closed to each other and after being informed of the murder of AmirKhan in prison, started a war with Hamzeh Mirza. The result of all these processed was the murder of Hamzeh Mirza and also the weakening of Iranian troops against the ottomans which in turn led to the conquest of the whole caucasia and big parts of Azerbayejan by the ottomans.