Here is the love for ancestors
You would install a huge air conditioning case on outer façade of the Mihrimah Sultan Mosque…
The Süheyl Bey Mosque at Fındıklı, the first architect of which was Mimar Sinan, was demolished during the Adnan Menderes era, on the grounds that the road was being expanded. Instead of rebuilding it in accordance with the original, you would build an ugly, plaza-like structure with plasterboard, aluminum and glass in place of it.
Bursa, the paradise of the first Ottoman-era architecture - you would turn this city into the garbage of mass housing…
You would postpone the restoration of the Tekfur Palace, one after the other, a place which once was also used as a tile production workshop, and end up with installing polyvinyl chloride (pvc) windows to the palace at the end.
You would allow a wonderful tomb at Sirkeci to be rented out by Vakıflar to a kebab house, and not be bothered by piles of garbage and vegetable boxes in its yard.
You would not care about the historic silhouette that is unique to Istanbul and allow skyscrapers to rise behind the Sultanahmet Mosque. The court orders the buildings to be lowered, but you do not follow this up…
The heritage of Süleyman the Magnificent, the masterpiece of Mimar Sinan, the yard of the Süleymaniye Mosque has become filled with cafes, but you do not raise your voice...
Historical fountains in the Fatih district are falling apart, you do not mend them...
In Muş, historic houses dating back to the 1800s diminish one after the other, but you do not pay attention…
A historic caravanserai hosting visitors is managed as a stove repair shop; a historic heritage is blatantly being destroyed, you do not stop and look...
The Saray Mosque Madrasa, where theologians were educated, collapses and turns into a wreck, you do not pay attention...
Ottoman structures in Samsun that have survived up to this day are in a wrecked condition because of the lack of attention and knowledge; you refrain from dealing with it…
You do not even protect the remaining walls of the fortress that was the center of the Muslim Samsun. Licensed buildings have been built over the remains of fortress walls, in some buildings’ basements you come across the remains of historic walls, but you would just look…
You sign the change of plans to allow development and building in the vegetable gardens right next to historic walls, which were the back yard of the Ottoman kitchen...
The kaftan that was in the will of Yavuz Sultan Selim “to be spread” over his grave, you would put it in a storage room…
In Kastamonu, the 550-year-old İsmail Bey Bath, which was built by the brother-in-law of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, is inactive and waiting until the day it collapses, but you do not rush to rescue it…
The historic building constructed by Grand Vizier Benderli Mehmet Selim Sırrı Pasha in Silivri, you do not mend its garden walls, which are collapsing, you do not clean the weeds at its doorsteps; while you are planting decoration plants all around the sides of highways, you allow this building’s decorative flowers to rot…
The historic house in Osmaneli, which makes everyone admire it with its gorgeous coffers, woodwork and historic texture, is being used as a barn; you do not oppose this…
While old Urfa has an opportunity to take its place in faith tourism with its 59 underground caves, the local elections were won by your party and the local government does not contribute to the project…
But when it comes to Ottoman courses, you start referring to your ancestors and never stop…
No doubt, you love your ancestors…
