The year is 1992…
Correspondent Orhan Baykal and cameraman Cüneyt Mumcu from TRT News Center are in Algeria for news.
Because the winner of the choice Islamic Salvation Front there are bloody clashes between their supporters and oppressive government supporters who have taken power.
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One day, when the events are relatively stopped, Orhan and his cameraman want to go up a hill overlooking the city and view the Port of Algeria, where Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha anchored his ships.
While shooting, the two police officers appear next to them. Police officers are starting to shout and call TRT people in Arabic. When they realize that they are foreigners, they ask why they shoot. Orhan, they came from Turkey, Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha and they are working on state television that the iron horse say they view the harbor.
So what would one of the cops say in French?
“Where is Barbaros Hayrettin? ..”
Orhan is surprised at what to say. He is trying to explain that Barbaros has a very important place in the history of Algeria with the crap in French, but the man persistently continues to ask, “Where is it now?”
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Then a police car comes and they are put into the car by ours. The same questions are raised during the interrogation at the police station. They are trying to explain that the Ottoman Navy lived its golden age during the period of Captain-I Derya Barbaros Hayrettin, nicknamed “Hızır Reis” and its importance in the history of Algeria.
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Convincing the investigators that they had no bad intentions and leaving the police station, one of the police was behind them “Where is Barbaros Hayrettin…” Orhan and his friend, who took everything in mind when they shout, could not stand and give a slap like answer:
“The French have shed blood in your country and have made terrible massacres. We also see that genocide has been applied on your culture. Imperialism has detached you from your history and roots. If you read who Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha is, you will be ashamed to ask us this question. You speak French but you don’t know your history. ” says!..
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As to why I shared this memory …
In an auction held in Christies, one of the famous auction halls of London, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu bought the portrait of Fatih Sultan Mehmet, the greatest ruler of his age, for 770 thousand pounds.
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While expressing his feelings, Imamoglu said:
“The place where a really important painting of Bellini, in fact a memory of us, suits well is of course Istanbul.. befits; The people of Istanbul, even the whole world, come to visit that magnificent commander in an area where he would like to see the sultan. At this point; I was very excited when I heard it was on sale and I immediately instructed my friends to review the process. Today, the conclusion of our municipality made me very happy. I was very honored. It was very happy that the gift of such a gift was brought to Istanbul during the days when we started the project process in order to make Fatih Sultan Mehmet feel more special with the will of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Good luck to the people of Istanbul. It is now a work belonging to the people of Istanbul. Hopefully, many hundreds of years will continue to live in Istanbul… ”
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I congratulate the Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Ekrem İmamoğlu for giving a lesson to both the cultural imperialism and the local conquest literati in a sense by protecting our history, our ancestry and his heirloom cultural heritage in the person of the sultan Fatih Sultan Mehmet, who opened the era.
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Like the place you cannot go, your culture that you do not own does not belong to you after a while! ..
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