42 - The Red Wedding

The Turkish History Podcast

As Kılıç Arslan sits in prison in Esfahan, Emperor Alexios Komnenos attempts to restore imperial authority on the coasts of Anatolia, even if the plateau itself remains lost to him. Constantinople tangles with the Black Sea beylik of Karategin and the Marmara beylik of İlhan. In İzmir, the rebel Turkish Roman General Çaka Bey creates the first Turkish navy and establishes an Aegean beylik - becoming the supreme Turkish potentate in Western Anatolia. This situation is upended as Kılıç Arslan returns to claim the Sultanate. And Emperor Alexis begins to contemplate from where he could possible raise the troops to oppose Turkish rule in Anatolia...