AHC: Wank the Safavid dynasty

Austro-Persian Alliance. Long Turkish War goes poorly for the Ottomans. Persia gains most of fertile Iraq and buffer regions in the Caucasuses. (Austria gains the Danubian Principalities and Ottoman Hungary)
 
- Just before the battle of Chaldiran the shots taken by the Janissaries at the tent of Ottoman Sultan Selim I find their mark, killing him
-Ismail I routes the effectively leaderless Ottoman force which is forced to retreat. Artillery is acquired en masse as is gunpowder. Ottoman officers and artillerymen face a choice: work for the Shahshahnah or languish until a definitive peace is signed.
-First at the battle of Mosul in early 1515, then at the Siege of Batman, and again at the Battle of the Three Cities in early 1516 just after (Antioch, Iskendrun, Antakya), the Persian armies have used artillery and lack of definitive Ottoman leadership to turn the Tarsus Mountains and OTL Hatay area into the frontier between Shia and Sunni Islam instead of Mesopotamia
-This allows a much more favorable treaty for the Safavids who contain Ottoman expansion while starting to Persian-ize the region
 
Is this traditionally called something else? I can't find anything on it.

The Safavids lost at a battle called Chaldiran abt 1514. I gave three ATL follow up battles had they not done so. And I should have been clear that they were ATL battles.
 
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