In 1675, 15,000 elite Janissaries and regular forces invaded Ukraine and were defeated by Ivan Serko.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
Sources support the core claim that Ivan Sirko's Cossacks defeated a force of about 15,000 Janissaries invading Ukraine in the mid-1670s, with a Crimean/Tatar force also involved. The sources differ on the date: one says the attack came in winter 1674 and another dates the "Christmas Massacre" to 1675, so the claim's 1675 date is contested but peripheral.
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… He was eventually arrested and sent to Siberia, but once the Turks began to advance, they had to call him back. In 1674, there was a massive Turkish invasion that Serko had defeated. The Russian hetman on their side, Temelovich, didn't do a thing. A year later, 15,000 elite Janissaries, not to mention regular forces, invaded Ukraine. Serko again defeated the cream of the Ottoman army. Um, 1678, another huge Turkish invasion. Russia didn't do anything. Samuelovich wouldn't do anything, but Serko repelled them a third time. The coalition force under Serko grew to very large numbers, and a fourth time, a Turkish invading force was defeated. …
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Supports. A Kyiv Polytechnic (kpi.ua) text says 15,000 of the most trained Janissaries were sent in autumn 1674 and attacked Ukraine in winter, with 13,500 Turks killed and the campaign unsuccessful.[1]
Supports. Cossacks.ua states that in 1675 an army including 15,000 selected Turkish janissaries secretly approached the Sich on Christmas night and that almost all of them were killed by the Cossacks under Sirko.[2]
Supports. A Turkish-published article on the Vienna letter attributes to Sirko's Cossacks the defeat of 15,000 Turkish janissaries and a Tatar horde attacking the Sich, noting the episode as winter 1674.[3]
Context. Sources disagree on the year (winter 1674 versus Christmas 1675), which is a peripheral detail that does not overturn the core claim of a 15,000-Janissary defeat by Sirko.[1][2][3]
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- 1kpi.ua · en · 711-15Cossacks wrote the letter ... ["Was there such a letter ...kpi.ua · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 2IVAN SIRKOcossacks.ua · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 3[PDF] Vienna Letter to Sultan Mehmed IV Avji from Ukrainian Cossaks in ...dergipark.org.tr · not rated · cited for: supports, context
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