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'''Soulfikar''' was the personal executioner of Mahomet IV during the Ottoman Empire<ref>[https://books.google.de/books?id=JZxMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA546&dq=Soulfikar+executioner&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Sn8iVamgBMLaPdybgRA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Soulfikar%20executioner&f=false History of the Ottoman Turks]</ref> and killed up to three people every day for five years - he killed at least ~~4000~~ people and threw their bodies into the Bosphorus.<ref>[https://books.google.de/books?id=JZxMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA546&dq=Soulfikar+executioner&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Sn8iVamgBMLaPdybgRA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Soulfikar%20executioner&f=false The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe]</ref> A horrific aspect of his "career" is that he never used any instruments of torture and death to do so: he personally strangled each and every victim to death with his bare hands.'''<nowiki/>'''

'''Soulfikar''' was the personal executioner of Mahomet IV during the Ottoman Empire<ref>[https://books.google.de/books?id=JZxMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA546&dq=Soulfikar+executioner&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Sn8iVamgBMLaPdybgRA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Soulfikar%20executioner&f=false History of the Ottoman Turks]</ref> and killed up to three people every day for five years - he killed at least 4,000 people and threw their bodies into the Bosphorus.<ref>[https://books.google.de/books?id=JZxMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA546&dq=Soulfikar+executioner&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Sn8iVamgBMLaPdybgRA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Soulfikar%20executioner&f=false The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe]</ref> A horrific aspect of his "career" is that he never used any instruments of torture and death to do so: he personally strangled each and every victim to death with his bare hands.'''<nowiki/>'''

As if this was not terrifying enough, if the condemned was a Grand Vizier, it was the custom for Ottoman executioners to race the victims across the royal gardens to the place of execution - if the Grand Vizier won, he would be banished instead of being executed<ref>[http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ottoman-empires-life-or-death-race-164064882/?no-ist The Ottoman Empire’s Life-or-Death Race]</ref>: yet Soufliker never lost a race and still had the strength to strangle every victim he beat at the race.

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-'''Soulfikar''' was the personal executioner of Mahomet IV during the Ottoman Empire<ref>[https://books.google.de/books?id=JZxMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA546&dq=Soulfikar+executioner&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Sn8iVamgBMLaPdybgRA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Soulfikar%20executioner&f=false History of the Ottoman Turks]</ref> and killed up to three people every day for five years - he killed at least 4000 people and threw their bodies into the Bosphorus.<ref>[https://books.google.de/books?id=JZxMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA546&dq=Soulfikar+executioner&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Sn8iVamgBMLaPdybgRA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Soulfikar%20executioner&f=false The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe]</ref> A horrific aspect of his "career" is that he never used any instruments of torture and death to do so: he personally strangled each and every victim to death with his bare hands.'''<nowiki/>'''
+'''Soulfikar''' was the personal executioner of Mahomet IV during the Ottoman Empire<ref>[https://books.google.de/books?id=JZxMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA546&dq=Soulfikar+executioner&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Sn8iVamgBMLaPdybgRA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Soulfikar%20executioner&f=false History of the Ottoman Turks]</ref> and killed up to three people every day for five years - he killed at least 4,000 people and threw their bodies into the Bosphorus.<ref>[https://books.google.de/books?id=JZxMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA546&dq=Soulfikar+executioner&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Sn8iVamgBMLaPdybgRA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Soulfikar%20executioner&f=false The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe]</ref> A horrific aspect of his "career" is that he never used any instruments of torture and death to do so: he personally strangled each and every victim to death with his bare hands.'''<nowiki/>'''
 As if this was not terrifying enough, if the condemned was a Grand Vizier, it was the custom for Ottoman executioners to race the victims across the royal gardens to the place of execution - if the Grand Vizier won, he would be banished instead of being executed<ref>[http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ottoman-empires-life-or-death-race-164064882/?no-ist The Ottoman Empire’s Life-or-Death Race]</ref>: yet Soufliker never lost a race and still had the strength to strangle every victim he beat at the race.