A considerabe number of Cepni are known to have taken office in some volunteer breaches. In the period of Süleyman the magnificent. A some of them, majority of whom were Canik and Trabzon Cepni, spied for Safavi during the Iran Wars, it was ordered to the Governer-general of Van that all Cepni Tribe be evacuated from the castle of Van, Ercis, Ahlat,and Bitlis in H.976 (M.1585). Like this, besides the whole governers-general of Anatolia; of Sam, Baghdat and Revan were also ordered not to give Dirlik to Cepni, Tat and Kizilbas.