Ottoman sultans sent him gifts, and Ottoman poets wrote naziras (poetic imitations) of his poems. Among them was the renowned Ottoman poet Ahmed Pasha, a contemporary of Navoi. Ahmed Pasha served as a teacher and vizier to Mehmed II, and later as the sanjakbey (governor) of Bursa under Bayezid II. It is known that he eagerly awaited Navoi's new gazelles, which were delivered to Bursa with arriving caravans. The creation of naziras to Navoi's gazelles remained fashionable among Ottoman poets until the 19th century, and even the greatest and proudest among them, such as Nedim and Sheikh Galib, followed this trend.
Under Navoi's influence, some authors, such as Seydi Ali Reis, who wrote under the pseudonym Katibi, began composing naziras in Chagatai language. Navoi's popularity in Istanbul increased after the arrival in the city of the last ruler of Herat from the Timurid dynasty, Prince Badi al-Zaman, to whom the poet dedicated his verses. He was brought to the palace of the Safavid Shah Ismail I in Tabriz after the capture of Herat by the Safavids in 1510.
When, in turn, the Ottomans occupied Tabriz after the decisive victory at Chaldiran in 1514, the Ottoman Sultan Selim I sent the Timurid prince to Istanbul along with his courtiers and Herat artists and treated him as a royal personage. Badi al-Zaman remained at the Ottoman court until his death from the plague in 1517. The illustrated Ottoman chronicle "Selimname," compiled around 1525, which records the events of Sultan Selim I's reign, has a miniature depicting this prince sitting with the sultan, indicating his privileged status at the Ottoman court.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album “Illustrated Manuscripts of Alisher Navoi’s Works in Istanbul Libraries” (XIX volume) from the series "The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan".
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