Istanbul Beneath My Wings
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Istanbul Beneath My Wings is a 1996 Turkish film, written and directed by Mustafa Altıoklar. It is a dramatization of Hezârfen Ahmet Çelebi's reported flight across the Bosphorus from Galata.
Istanbul Kanatlarimin Altinda
Kösem Sultan
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Kösem Sultan, also known as Mahpeyker Sultan, was the Haseki Sultan as a favorite consort and legal wife of Ottoman sultan Ahmed I, mother of Murad IV and Ibrahim, and grandmother of Mehmed IV. She ef
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
…Hezârfen Ahmet Çelebi and Lagâri Hasan Çelebi are researching bird flight. The new Sultan Murat IV resists the domination of his mother, the Valide Kösem Sultan and tries to enforce strict law and order in the empire. Meanwhile, a Venetian ship that has been captured by Algerian pirates is brought into Istanbul…
Oil painting depicting the young Murad IV (anonymous, c. 17th century)
Kösem Sultan's letter to the Grand Vizier Hüsrev Pasha, 1627.
An Ottoman miniature of Murad IV
A painting of Sultan Ibrahim the Mad, who reigned from 1640 until his deposition in 1648