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Illustration from Topkapi Sarayi Museum, MS. Hazine 1597-8

Selīm-nāma by Şūkrī-i Bitlisī
f.164b. The Battle of Turnadağ against Bozkurt of Dulkadir, 1515

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Background
Beylik of Dulkadir was a semi-independent Anatolian Turkish beylik under the sovereignty of Mamluk Egypt. Its territory bordered in the north to the Ottoman Empire. In 1514, Ottoman sultan Selim I, waged a war against Ismail I of the Safavids in Iran. His campaign route was close to the Dulkadir border, and Selim I asked Bozkurt of Dulkadir to participate in the campaign. But Bozkurt refused to participate using the pretext of his old age.

After the campaign
After the Iran campaign, Selim I decided to end the Beylik. Instead of returning to İstanbul, he waited in Central Anatolia with the main army and sent a force of 40,000 men under the command of Hadim Sinan Pasha, one of his viziers, to conquer Dulkadir. Ali Bey, a relative of Bozkurt, who had previously escaped to the Ottomans, was with Sinan as a guide.

The battle
Early fighting took place on 13 June 1515 close to Göksun, which is today a town in Kahramanmaraş Province in Turkey. Although the Ottomans were victorious, Bozkurt was able to escape to southeast. The final clash was in Turnadağ, a mountain range now called Nurhak in Kahramanmaraş Province. At the end of the battle, the Dulkadir army was totally defeated. Both Bozkurt and his sons were killed in the battle.

Aftermath
After the battle the Beylik of Dulkadir was converted to an Ottoman sanjak. Ali Bey of Dulkadir became the first governor of the sanjak. Hadim Sinan Pasha was promoted to be the grand vizier.