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Before sieging Constantinople in 1453, Sultan Mehmed II killed Byzantine ambassadors sent with gifts by Constantine IX. Why did he do this? Were diplomats not granted immunity in the Ottoman Empire?

by /u/PCH333 in /r/AskHistorians

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