Melike Safiye Vâlide Sultan
In 1563, at the age of 13, she was presented as a slave to the future Murad III by Mihrimah Sultan. Given the name Safiye “the pure one”, she became a concubine of Murad.
Safiye, like Nurbanu, advocated a generally pro-Venetian policy and regularly interceded on behalf of the Venetian ambassadors, one of whom described her to the senate as “a woman of her word, trustworthy, and I call say that in her alone have I found truth in Constantinople; therefore it will always benefit Your Serenity to promote her gratitude
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