or ASEKAI, the name which the Turks give to the favourite fultanans who have brought forth sons. These are greatly distinguished above others in their apartments, attendants, pensions, and honours. They have sometimes shared the government. The fultana who first presents the emperor with a male child, is reckoned the chief favourite, is called bayuk afeki, and ranks as a legitimate wife: though, from the time of Bajazet I., the fultans are forbid to marry by a public law, which Solyman II. violated in favour of Roxalana.