Russia was planing to provoke all the Slavs in the Ottoman Empire and to recapture the lands, lost previously. Char Peter incited the Princes of Wallachia and Moldavia, and he defeated Charles of Sweden in the war of Poltova. Charles took refuge to the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian forces raided to the Ottoman lands, therefore, the Ottoman Empire declared war against Russia.

Baltaci Mehmed Pasha was attended to be the grand vizier and he marched through Wallachia with an army of 100.000 soldiers, meanwhile, the Ottoman Navy sailed through the Black Sea.

Char Peter wrote a letter to Moscow and explained his desperate situation, Tsarina Katherina I requested from the Ottoman Empire. Both the Khan of Crimea and the King of Sweden were insisting on the necessity of a war, but Baltaci Mehmed Pasha did not trust the yeniceri corps, and he was afraid of a new crusade and he accepted Tsarina’s request, in 21^st July 1711. The Treaty of Prut was signed and the Castle of Azak was given back to the Ottomans. The Russians would have not intervene Charles’ return to Sweden, and they would have not sent a permanent ambassador to Istanbul.

After this victory, the Ottoman government begun to plan recapture the island of Mora. The Venetian pyrites attacked the Ottoman trade ships and the people of Mora wanted Ottoman protection. As a result, the Ottomans declared war against the Venetians, in 8^th of December 1714. Silahtar Ali Pasha defeated the Venetian Navy and captured Modon, Koron, and Navarino. He invaded the Island of Mora, in 22^nd July 1715.