Treaty of Ahmet Pasha

January 10, 1731

The Ottomans signed a peace with Nader Shah's resurgent Persia, yielding back some of the territory taken during Safavid collapse. The Sublime Porte recognized that its eastern neighbor was reviving. Meanwhile in Istanbul the first Turkish-language printing press, run by Ibrahim Muteferrika, had begun producing books. Reform was happening in two directions at once.