His lifeless corpse was borne back to Constantinople while those officials in the know pretended to keep up communication with him. Ottoman sources state that the pretence was maintained for three weeks, and that even the sultan’s personal physician was strangled as a precaution. A local tradition states that Suleiman’s body was laid to rest at Szigetvar and a mosque raised over the site which is now occupied by a church, but his corpse cannot have stayed there for long.
