A dozen turbe (monumental tombs) of the Ottoman imperial family stand in a peaceful graveyard beside the Muradiye mosque.Many of the tombs belong to the losers of various dynastic feuds --- imperial princes murdered by their sovereign brother, father or cousin --- and are exquisitely decored, as if to exorcise evil memories, Murad II himself (ruled 1431-1451) lies in a severely ascetic and roofless turbe--- perhaps a rebuke to his father's funerary extravaganza at the Green Tomb, elsewhere in the city.
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