During the early days of interregnum, Korkut, one of the princes (Turkish:

Sehzade), was travelling from Antalya to Manisa to be closer to the capital.

Sahkulu raided his caravan and robbed the treasury. Then he began attacking the
towns and killing the government officers in the towns. He also raided Alasehir to
seize a part of the royal treasure. Only then, an Ottoman force under Karag�z Ahmet
Pasha, the beylerbey of Anadolu, was sent to check his activities. But Sahkulu
defeated the forces of Ahmet Pasha and executed him. This increased the fame and
the prestige of Sahkulu. To his partisans, after raiding a royal caravan and
killing a high-ranking Ottoman statesman, he was invincible. A second army was sent
after him. The commanders of the army were Sehzade Ahmet, one of the claimants to
the throne, and the grand vizier Hadim Ali Pasha. They were able to corner Sahkulu
near Altintas (in modern K�tahya Province), but instead of fighting, Ahmet tried to
win over the janissaries for his cause. Failing to achieve this, he left the
battlefield. Sahkulu saw his chance and escaped. Ali Pasha with a smaller force
chased him, and clashed with him at �ubukova between Kayseri and Sivas.[7] The
battle was a draw, but both Ali Pasha and Sahkulu were killed (July 1511).
Sahkulu's partisans were not defeated, but they had lost their leader. Many
scattered, but after a third army was sent by the Ottoman Porte, the most devoted
escaped to Persia. During their escape they raided a caravan, and accidentally
killed a well-known Persian scholar. Consequently, instead of showing them
hospitality, Ismail executed them. Meanwhile, in Ottoman lands, Prince Ahmet's
behavior in the battle caused reaction among the soldiers. Moreover, the death of
Hadim Ali, the chief partisan of Ahmet, provided an advantage to the youngest
claimants to throne: the succession would ultimately fall to Selim I, under whose
reign the Ottoman state saw spectacular victories and doubled in area. Selim was
also a very devoted Sunni and effectively checked Shiite activities in Ottoman
lands after defeating Ismail in the battle of Chaldiran in 1514.