Assertion: caliph | /r/HasProperty | khalifa
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text: Also as to Sultan Mehmed II, he was not a Caliph (Khalifa); actually I think when Sultan Selim (who is in a later time than Mehmed II in chronologic line) was the first Ottoman Sultan who invaded Egypt in 1517 or so, and thus captured the State of Caliph.
text: For the record, the source Khestwol cited says: "as for 'caliph' (khalifa), this had been used by the Ottomans as a general title since the time of Murad I, as was the practice of many other Muslim rulers, the title having by then lost its original meaning.