Resources diverted to the new army threaten Janissary income and privilege. Other elites reinforce the resistance by rejecting European military models as alien to Ottoman practice. The rebellion deposes Selim III and installs Mustafa IV on a promise to respect Janissary independence. Embassies in Europe are dismantled and the Nizam-i Cedid is dispersed while the Russian war is already under way. Mustafa later orders Selim's death, but Mahmud II takes power and restores the reform program. The succession crisis weakens both the Ottoman army and navy as external pressure intensifies.
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Janissary privilege turns military reform into a wartime coup
Income, institutional privilege, and resistance to European models help the Janissaries depose Selim III and dismantle his new army during war with Russia.