Early Life
Kaya Sultan was born to Sultan Murad IV, the most heroic and most autocratic of the seventeenth century. The marriage of princesses for political ends has always been used by the Sultans and Kaya Sultan was no exception. At the age of thirteen, Kaya was married to Melek Ahmet Pasha, a former Ottoman Grand Vizier of Abkhazian origin, who was in his mid 50s. However, Kaya was extremely hostile towards her husband, as evident on her wedding night when she struck him with a dagger.
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