 The purge led to a dearth of military support for Aybak, which in turn led to Aybak's recruitment of new supporters from among the army in Egypt and the Turkic Nasiri and Azizi mamluks from Syria, who had defected from their Ayyubid masters, namely an-Nasir Yusuf, and moved to Egypt in 1250.The Syrian mamluks were led by their patron Jamal ad-Din Aydughdi and were assigned most of the "iqtaʿ" of Aktay and his allies.However, Aydughdi's growing ambitions made Aybak view him as a threat.