
and Kara Mukhamed, whom Bayezid sheltered in Ankara. They were the former rulers of the state of Kara Kayunlu captured by Timur.
Kara Yusuf robbed trade caravans of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Timur expressed dissatisfaction with this and asked Bayezid to hand over the blasphemer Yusuf to him for trial, to which Bayezid refused. And a long diplomatic correspondence began, finally Sultan Bayezid could not stand it and offered to meet Amir Timur on the battlefield. Soon, two armies met in a terrible battle near Ankara, Bayezid lost this battle and was captured. God must have little regard for power on earth, since he gave half the world to the lame man and the other to the crooked one, said Timur when he saw the captive Bayezid who had lost an eye in a battle with the Serbs. A year later, Bayezid died, remaining a captive of the Lame Timur.