# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mustafa-iii
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:40:25.077Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mustafa-iii"
name: "Mustafa III"
slug: "mustafa-iii"
description: "Ottoman sultan who spent years locked away after his father's overthrow, then took the throne in 1757 with ambitions to modernize the empire — only to drag it into a catastrophic war with Russia that revealed how far behind it had already fallen."
tagline: "26th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1757–1774)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mustafa3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "TR"
birthDate: "1717-01-28"
deathDate: "1774-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mustafa was the son of Sultan Ahmed III, confined for decades after his father's deposition in 1730. When he finally became sultan in 1757, he set about promoting justice, economic reform, and infrastructure modernization. An admirer of Frederick the Great, he aligned the empire diplomatically with Prussia. But in 1768 he pushed for war with Russia — a decision that ended in disaster. Despite his reform efforts, the conflict exposed deep Ottoman military weakness and concluded with major territorial losses. He died in 1774, succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I.