The Čukur Fountain incident () refers to a series of events in June 1862 in Belgrade, at the time the capital of the Ottoman subject state of Serbia. On 15 June (O.S. 3 June) a group of Ottoman nizami (soldiers) and Serbs quarreled by the Čukur Fountain, ending with a wounded Serb apprentice boy and growing into a conflict between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire (Serbia being under Ottoman suzerainty at that time). Background Since 1813, with the Ottoman suppression of the First Serbian Uprising (1804–13), the city of Belgrade had been under a type of dual government. The Belgrade Fortress was garrisoned by Ottoman soldiers and the surrounding part of Belgrade was inhabited by "Turks", primarily the families of the soldiers, living under an Ottoman administration. The rest of Belgrade was inhabited by Serbs under their own administration. Prior to the events of June 1862, there had been a series of conflicts between the Serbians and Turks. Events Quarrel The event near the Čukur Fountain happened in the afternoon of 15 June 1862 (3 June according to the old calendar) on Dobračina Street in Belgrade. It was a hot summer day and many people were drinking water from a well including a young apprentice named Sava Petković, Turkish nizame (soldiers) and others. A fight broke out between Petković and one or more of the Turkish soldiers. Accounts of the events differ; Petković was either driven off and beaten, stabbed with a bayonet or hit on the head with the water pitcher. Whatever the means, Petković was killed. Serbian gendarmes arrived quickly and arrested the soldiers. However, more Turkish soldiers arrived and a verbal dispute began. An interpreter with the Belgrade police, Sima Nešić, tried to mediate between the Turkish soldiers and the Serbian gendarmes, but the Turkish soldiers started shooting and Nešić was killed. The commander of the Serbian guard, Ivko Prokić, tried to remove the Turks from the scene but more shots were fired and the incident escalated into a citywide conflict which lasted the entire night. Riot The news about the incident spread around Belgrade, and Serbian rioters armed themselves with old guns, yataghans (swords) and handžars (knives), and quickly overtook the Varoš Gate, and destroyed the Sava and Stambol gates. Truce On the following day, 16 June, a truce was worked out by the foreign consuls in the city, especially John Augustus Longworth, British Consul-General. Under