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'If he paints a rose, the nightingale will fall in love with it; if he paints a cloud, it will rain; if he paints a sea, fish will swim; even if he imagines a beautiful beauty, the picture will be finished before his brush touches the paper.'
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'In my short life, I realized that the powerful will do anything to maintain their power.'
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'The courtyard of Hagia Sophia is the continuation of Muradiye in Istanbul.'
~ Çiçek Hanım's Dreams | Beşir Ayvazoğlu
Çiçek Hanım's Dreams tells eight stories about power, sultanate and fratricide in history. Both the past and the present are active in this course. At the same time, we see texts from the ruznames of some pashas.
The book tells the story of Çiçek Hanım turning the things she told about Cem Sultan into a novel, and as a result of this, Sezai Bey, whom she met, started researching on this subject and the information he had came to light, in the shadow of Muradiye in Bursa.
The book, which tells about the deaths of princes, power struggles, the echo of art and aesthetics in the palace corridors, and the before and after events that will change the course of history, is worth reading.
Of all the events that have happened in history, unfortunately, the one that is remembered with the most sadness and pain is fratricide. Sometimes a father kills his son, sometimes a brother kills his brother. Even though these events are for the sake of the sultanate, they also reveal human desires and ambitions.
I read it with pleasure. I advise.
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