Osmanlı'dan Miras Derin Yara

It is said that one of them (devshirme-dönme) progressed in order and finally became the governor of a province in Rumelia. He built many institutions that benefited Islamic and Ottoman culture such as mosques, schools and madrasahs in the surrounding area. One day, out of the blue, he called his chamberlain and said: "Look, Agha, build a church in a Christian village in the Wallachian-Mughdan region."

The chamberlain looked at him in astonishment and wanted to explain that a Muslim could not build a church.

Of course, the Pasha understood and said: "How should I know? The clergy say that Islam and priests say that Christianity is the true religion.

I should include a church among the charitable institutions I have built.

Whatever religion proves true in the afterlife will be useful, that institution," he said.

"Who could protect that prayerful plane tree planted by the hands of a Turk's Turkmen in a willow tree, better and more wholeheartedly than a Tu Show More