in 1534, the ottoman sultan süleymân i conquered the region of baghdad, where fuzûlî lived, from the safavid empire. fuzûlî now had the chance to become a court poet under the ottoman patronage system, and he composed a number of poems in praise of the sultan, and as a result, he was granted a stipend. but he did not really get it. therefore he citicized bureaucracy in one of his best-known works, the letter "şikâyetnâme" (شکايت نامه; "complaint"):