The Amasya Treaty (1555) ended a half-century of Ottoman-Safavid military and ideological rivalry during the sixteenth century. My paper focuses on why the Ottoman and Safavid empires made this treaty despite a long-standing ideological and political divide. It has been widely held that the Safavids could not afford such a costly rivalry and, tired of the Ottoman military campaigns, they pleaded with the Ottomans to make peace. Based on my comparative research in Ottoman, Persian, and European sources, I find that this narrative misses many essential points and omits certain historical facts just before the treaty was signed. I argue that the Ottomans also wished for and, at once, requested peace with the Safavids. I show that, although the Ottoman army ostensibly left Istanbul to fight with the Safavids in 1553, the primary motive was to use warfare as a diplomatic tool to force the Safavids to ask for peace.

《阿马西亚条约》（1555年）在16世纪结束了奥斯曼－萨法维德的军事和意识形态对抗的半个世纪。我的论文着眼于尽管长期存在着意识形态和政治分歧，但奥斯曼帝国和萨法维德帝国却为何缔结了这项条约。人们普遍认为，萨法维人无法承受如此昂贵的竞争，厌倦了奥斯曼帝国的军事行动，他们恳求奥斯曼帝国促成和平。根据我对奥斯曼帝国，波斯人和欧洲人的资料进行的比较研究，我发现这种叙述遗漏了许多要点，并且在条约签署之前就忽略了某些历史事实。我认为奥斯曼帝国也希望并立即要求与萨法维德人和平。我表明，尽管奥斯曼军队表面上在1553年离开了伊斯坦布尔与萨法维德人作战，