Editing Mustafa I (section)

==Alleged mental instability==
Nevertheless, according to Baki Tezcan, there is not enough evidence to properly establish that Mustafa was mentally imbalanced when he came to the throne. Mustafa "made a number of excursions to the arsenal and the navy docks, examining various sorts of arms and taking an active interest in the munitions supply of the army and the navy." One of the dispatches of Baron de Sancy, the French ambassador, "suggested that Mustafa was interested in leading the [[Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–18)|Safavid campaign]] himself and was entertaining the idea of wintering in Konya for that purpose."<ref>{{cite book |author=Baki Tezcan |title=The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World |publisher=Cambridge University Press |place=Cambridge |date=2010|pages=109 |isbn=978-0-521-51949-6}}</ref>

Moreover, one contemporary observer provides an explanation of the coup which does not mention the incapacity of Mustafa. Baron de Sancy ascribes the deposition as a political conspiracy between the grand admiral Ali Pasha and [[Chief Black Eunuch]] Mustafa Agha, who were angered by the former's removal from office upon Sultan Mustafa's accession. They may have circulated rumors of the sultan's mental instability subsequent to the coup in order to legitimize it.<ref name=":3">{{cite book |author= Baki Tezcan |title=The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World |publisher=Cambridge University Press |place=Cambridge |date=2010|pages=110–2 |isbn=978-0-521-51949-6}}</ref>