A shekara ta 1658, an mayar da ikon Ottoman zuwa arewa a cikin yakin da George II Rákóczi, Yarima na Transylvania, wanda ya samo asali a cikin
dogon rikici tare da Habsburgs. A cikin 'yan shekaru masu zuwa, rundunar jiragen ruwa ta Venetian, a karkashin umarnin Morosini, ba tare da nasara ba ta yi kokarin ci gaba da toshewa na Straits of the Dardanelles. Morosini ya kuma ci gaba da dabarun kai hari kan sansanonin Ottoman: kewaye da tsibirin Santa Maura (Lefkada) a watan Agusta 1658 ya gaza, amma a cikin 1659, Venetians, tare da taimakon Maniots, sun kori Kalamata a Peloponnese, sannan Torone a Chalcidice, Karystos a Euboea, da Çeşme. Duk da haka, tun da Venice ba zai iya ba da ƙarfi don mamaye waɗannan wurare ba, waɗannan hare-haren ba su sami Jamhuriyar ba. A bangaren Ottoman, Köprülü Mehmed ya ba da umarnin gina sabbin kagara guda biyu, Sedd el Bahr ("Rampart of the Sea") da Kilid Bahr ("Key of the Sea"), a gabar tekun Turai na ƙofar Dardanelles, don hana Venetians shiga cikin Straits.