Yes, the ottomanbosnia.pdf file is indeed interesting.
I would like to mention this:
The Serbian unhumans have 1992 not only massacred the people,
they have also destroyed more than 2 million historic books and
manuscripts by setting the Sarajevo library on fire!
There can be no excuse for such a barbaric act!
I wonder how can one ever destroy historic books???!
This is a crime against the history and culture of a population.
It seems it was part of the Serbian ethnic cleansing war plan to
not only massacre the population but also to destroy their history.
Really a shameful act.
"choro-nik" wrote
> Most interesting. And it goes to prove the religious tolerance of the
> Ottoman Turks stretching way back to the 15th century when Europe was
still
> living through its dark ages.
>
> 'Ahdnama' of course is now 'Ahdname' in modern Turkish. 'Ahd' means
> 'swearing' or 'oath' and therefore 'Ahdname' means sworn do***ent,
> testimony, edict etc.
>
> But what was far more interesting for me was the .pdf file which
reminded me
> of my mother's side of the family who eventually moved from that region
of
> the world to Drama in what is now Greece and later to Selanik
> (Thessaloniki) -- both in Thrace -- from where they moved to Turkey with
one
> brother, one of my great grandfathers, eventually settling in Cyprus
which
> is how I came into being. It is a long and very interesting story,
mostly
> forgotten now I must say.
>
> It is such a pity I only started taking an interest in the matter so
late
> when people who knew more about these matters have passed away. Though I
> understand there are quite a few do***ents in the library of one
deceased
> member of the family (who was my great grandfather's nephew and at one
time
> a minister in the Turkish Cabinet) in his library which has been kept
under
> lock and key ever since his death in Turkey in the mid-1990s. Trouble is
> most of the older more interesting do***ents would naturally be in the
old
> Ottoman script which very few people can read now. Though a book of
memoirs
> which was last reprinted in 1999 but which contains very little
information
> about family matters exists by _his_ father (who was my great
grandfather's
> brother) who had served as a very high ranking administrator in the
Ottoman
> Empire to the extent that there are scores of web-pages about him or
where
> there is reference to him. But naturally these are about political
rather
> than family matters which is what I am interested in. He was later to
serve
> the Republic of Turkey which rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire
as an
> equally high ranking civilian administrator.
> --
>
> "Baba Bey" wrote
> >
> > http://www.caliphate.co.uk/files/ottomanbosnia.pdf
> > "
> > THE OATH (AHDNAMA) OF SULTAN MEHMET II, THE CONQUEROR
> >
> >
> > MEHMET THE SON OF MURAT KHAN, ALWAYS VICTORIOUS!
> >
> > THE COMMAND OF THE HONORABLE, SUBLIME SULTAN'S SIGN AND
> > ****NING SEAL OF THE CONQUEROR OF THE WORLD IS AS FOLLOWS:
> >
> > I, THE SULTAN MEHMET KHAN INFORM ALL THE WORLD THAT THE
> > ONES WHO POSSESS THIS IMPERIAL EDICT, THE BOSNIAN FRANCISCANS,
> > HAVE GOT INTO MY GOOD GRACES, SO I COMMAND:
> >
> > LET NOBODY BOTHER OR DISTURB THOSE WHO ARE MENTIONED,
> > NOT THEIR CHURCHES. LET THEM DWELL IN PEACE IN MY EMPIRE.
> > AND LET THOSE WHO HAVE BECOME REFUGEES BE AND SAFE.
> > LET THEM RETURN AND LET THEM SETTLE DOWN THEIR MONASTERIES
> > WITHOUT FEAR IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF MY EMPIRE.
> > NEITHER MY ROYAL HIGHNESS, NOR MY VIZIERS OR EMPLOYEES,
> > NOR MY SERVANTS, NOR ANY OF THE CITIZENS OF MY EMPIRE SHALL
> > INSULT OR DISTURB THEM. LET NOBODY ATTACK INSULT OR ENDANGER
> > NEITHER THEIR LIFE OR THEIR PROPERTY OR THE PROPERTY OF
> > THEIR CHURCH. EVEN IF THEY BRING SOMEBODY FROM ABROAD INTO
> > MY COUNTRY, THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DO SO.
> >
> > AS, THUS, I HAVE GRACIOUSLY ISSUED THIS IMPERIAL EDICT,
> > HEREBY TAKE MY GREAT OATH.
> >
> > IN THE NAME OF THE CREATOR OF THE EARTH AND HEAVEN, THE ONE
> > WHO FEEDS ALL CREATURES, AND IN THE NAME OF THE SEVEN MUSTAFAS
> > AND OUR GREAT MESSENGER, AND IN THE NAME OF THE SWORD I PUT,
> > NOBODY SHALL DO CONTRARY TO WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN, AS LONG AS
> > THEY ARE OBEDIENT AND FAITHFUL TO MY COMMAND.
> >
> > May 28th 1463
> >
> > (The original edict is still kept in the Franciscan Monastery
> > in the vicinity of Fojnica, Bosnia)
> > "
> > See photo of the original in this do***ent:
> > http://www.caliphate.co.uk/files/ottomanbosnia.pdf
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