I am Selim II, I was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until my death in 1574. I was a son of Suleiman the Magnificent and my wife Hurrem Sultan. I had been an unlikely candidate for the throne until my brother Mehmed died of smallpox, my half-brother Mustafa was strangled to death by the order of my father and my brother Bayezid was killed on the order of my father after a rebellion against him and I.