24/04/2013
CONFESSION OF A TURKISH JOURNALIST REGARDING THE FILM “ALOSI 1453”
Another record for the most expensive film production in Turkish history.
Five million Turks have seen it
The film super production “The fall of Constantinople 1453”
The Turkish film “The Fall of 1453” sets a box office record. By the end of the third week of screening in Turkish cinemas, it is estimated that 5,042,994 viewers have already rushed to the cinemas to watch the story.
For the completion of the film, more than 17 million dollars were spent and it took almost three years of shooting and editing. The film presents the life of Sultan Muhammad up to the time of the Ottoman invasion of Constantinople on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, which coincides with the 560th anniversary of the capture of Vasilevousa.
The Turkish blockbuster has also caused criticism from within. Indicative is what the journalist Burak Bechdil wrote in February in the English-language edition of Hurriet, who posed the rhetorical question of whether the British celebrated the “fall of London” or the Germans the “fall of Berlin”.
“Do we have to wait for films like “Extermination 1974” or “Extermination of 1915″ to follow?” the Turkish journalist was indirectly mocking his compatriots.
The confession of a thinking Turk journalist
With an impressively honest article, published in the authoritative newspaper SABAH, by Engin Ardiç, a well-known writer and journalist in Turkey, the Turkish way of celebrating the fall of Istanbul on May 29 is described…
In this article, the author presents a series of truths that the Kemal regime has been trying to suppress for decades. It is worth quoting the full text, translated from the specific address of the Turkish newspaper Sabah, which reads as follows: “Turkish compatriots, stop the fanfare and celebrations for the extermination, we have given enough peace to the East with our actions…”
IF a conference was organized in Athens with the theme: “We will take back the City”…
IF they made a model of the city walls and the soldiers in their armor attacking the City… (like we in Turkey do every year!)
IF a guy dressed like the famous Greek victor and almost mythical Digenis Akritas caught our own Ulubatli Hasan and knocked him down…
IF someone suddenly entered the city dressed as Emperor Constantine on a white horse and next to him another as Loukas Notaras, as George Frantzis and they entered as representatives of the city… (as we in Turkey do every year!)
IF they made a paper Hagia Sophia that had no minarets but a Cross….
IF they burned incense and sang hymns, would we like it?
We would not like it, we would stir up the people, until we would call back our ambassador from Greece.
Then why do you do this, every year?
It’s been 556 years and you’re celebrating (the Fall) like it was yesterday?
Because every year at such a time, (with these celebrations you do) you proclaim to the whole world that:
“These parts were not ours; we came later and took them with us”.
Why are you bringing up a case of 6 centuries?
Is there a subconscious fear that the City will one day be given back?
Fear not, there is no such thing as some Ergenekon idiots say about 1919 terms.
Do not be afraid, the 9 million Greeks cannot take the city of 12 million, and even if they take it they cannot inhabit it.
And our people who celebrate the Fall are just a handful of fanatics, even their voices are hard to hear.
Gentlemen, if they tell us that we plundered the City for three days and three nights continuously, what will we answer?
Will we defend ourselves in the European Court of Human Rights or will we leave the matter to the historians?
Instead of taking pride in the cities we have conquered, let us take pride in those we have founded, if they exist. But they don’t exist.
The entire East is a territory conquered by force…
Even the name of Anatolia is not what they believe (ana=mother, dolu=full) but comes from the Greek word “East”. “Anatoli”
Even the name of Istanbul is not, as Ebliya Celebi tells us, “Where Islam prevails”, but comes from Greek. “Is tin poli”
Okay, so we got a permanent settlement, the nomadic life is over and that’s why the people buy five-by-five apartments. Nobody can move us, calm down now…
Let our villagers be content with murdering Constantinople, but without so much noise.