Editing Murad V (section)

=== Reign ===
==== Accession ====
{{Main|1876 Ottoman coup d'état}}
[[File:Şehzade Murad en route to be crowned.png|thumb|150px|right|Murad en route to be crowned]]
As a result, Murad cooperated with the constitutionalist circles and took part in the deposition of Abdulaziz.<ref name="́gostonMasters2010"/> On the night of 29–30 May 1876, the committee led by the Midhat Pasha and the [[Ministry of War (Ottoman Empire)|Minister of War]], [[Hüseyin Avni Pasha]], deposed Abdulaziz and raised Murad to the throne.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=16}}

Though Murad acceded to the throne, he was not able to retain it.<ref name="́gostonMasters2010"/> He struggled to appear normal in his new role, so at odds with his previously quiet life of dabbling in music.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=16}} His weak nerves, combined with alcoholism, led to a mental breakdown.<ref name="́gostonMasters2010"/> His deposed uncle's death, only days after Murad's accession, stunned him, and, along with the distress over the abruptness with which he was brought to the throne as well as the demands put upon him as ruler, led to anxious thoughts that the world would interpret his uncle's death as something he had ordered.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=16}}

==== Illness and deposition ====
Murad began to manifest bizarre behavior that preceded his complete collapse. The government leaders called in the Viennese specialist in psychiatric disorders, [[Max Leidesdorf]], who concluded that Murad could make a complete recovery with three months' treatment in a clinic, which the other Ottoman leaders were unwilling to attempt. A mentally competent prince on the throne formed an essential component of their plans to implement reforms with due legitimacy. Murad's younger brother and heir to the throne, Abdul Hamid, however, appeared both physically and mentally healthy, and supported their plans to introduce parliamentary government to the Empire.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|pp=16–17}}

Securing a sanction by [[Shaykh al-Islām|Şeyhülislam]] of Murad's dethronement, as well as Abdul Hamid's promise to proclaim a constitution,{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=17}} Midhat Pasha and the Ottoman government deposed Murad on 31 August 1876,<ref name="́gostonMasters2010"/> on the grounds of mental illness. His reign had lasted for only 93 days.<ref name="vomit">Palmer, Alan. ''The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire'', 1992. pp. 141–143.</ref> His younger half-brother ascended to the throne and was crowned Sultan [[Abdul Hamid II]]. Murad was confined to the [[Çırağan Palace]], not being permitted to leave the palace grounds on Abdul Hamid's orders.<ref name="́gostonMasters2010"/>