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Bu satırlardan itibaren karşılaşacağınız tek ve biricik gerçek, romanın kendi gerçeğidir. romandaki bütün isim, cisim, kişi ve olaylar, (hatta bu satırlar bile) uydurmadır.
The one and only truth you will encounter from these lines is the truth of the novel itself. All the names, objects, people and events in the novel (even these lines) are fabrications.
13 rebiülevvel 1410 | 30 eylül 1405 | 13 ekim 1989
Quite an interesting example of political humor. The book is a political story that tells about some of the intrigues between a hero named Raşid, who we think is the projection of the writer (Reşit) Emre Kongar[1], and Giftos Karpantiye, which we are sure is the projection of İhsan Doğramacı[2], in the vicinity of the 15th century palace and madrasah after the Conquest. espionage novel.
Perhaps the most striking point of the book, besides the references, is the anecdote in which the author states that he bought the manuscripts that sourced the book by chance at the insistence of a second-hand booksellers, and that Orhan Pamuk and Umberto Eco were fervently scanning some of the manuscripts in the second-hand bookstore at that time. Inspired by the aforementioned manuscripts, the author states that Eco wrote The Name of the Rose, Orhan Pamuk wrote The White Castle, and he himself wrote the "Hocaefendi’nin Sandukası | Hocaefendi's Ark".
As a result, all three books are based on the notes told by the protagonists, The Name of the Rose is from the notes of Adso of Melkh, and the White Castle is from the notes shared by the historian Faruk Darvinoğlu, one of the protagonists of the White Castle | Beyaz Kale, from the mouth of a devshirme(conscript). Hocaefendi's Ark. However, we read from the notes given by the historian, a Spanish Ladino named Calevela, residing in Istanbul, from the mouth of a madrasa student named Raşid.
Considering that Doğramacı is known as Hocabey in the university circle, it is obvious that the story that this work was transferred from manuscripts after all the references made is completely fictional.
Giftos Karpantiye is the name of the negative hero in the historical novel "Hocaefendi’nin Sandukası | Hocaefendi's Ark" by Emre Kongar, published in 1989.
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Who this novel character symbolized was once the subject of much debate. If you translate 'Giftos Karpantiye' into Turkish, you will immediately understand that this is İhsan Doğramacı's[2] code name.
[1] Reşit Emre Kongar was born on October 13, 1941 in Istanbul. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Finance and Economics in 1963. In 1964, he went to the United States to study Social Sciences with a United Nations scholarship. In 1976, he became an associate professor with his thesis on "Theories of Social Change". In the same year, he was appointed as an active associate professor to the Department of Social Work and Social Services and was elected as the Head of the Department. He left the Department Head in 1978. He worked in various specialized commissions in the preparation of the Second, Third and Fourth Five-Year Plans.
[2] Professor İhsan Doğramacı (3 April 1915 – 25 February 2010) was a Turkish paediatrician, entrepreneur, philanthropist, educationalist and college administrator of Iraqi Turkmen descent born in today's Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq then Ottoman Empire. His father Doğramacızade Ali Pasha was the Mayor of Erbil and later a Senator in Baghdad; his grandfather Mehmet Ali Kirdar was a Member of the Ottoman Parliament for Kirkuk. Doğramacı was married to Ayser Süleyman in 1942.
Doğramacı was a pediatric physician and an international leader of development. He was the founder of Bilkent University, a leading private university and Hacettepe University, one of the overall highly ranked universities in Turkey which specializes in medical sciences in Ankara, Turkey, chairman of the UNICEF executive board, founding President of the Council of Higher Education of Turkey (YÖK), executive director and president of International Pediatric Association (IPA), co-ratifier of WHO's constitution, and he had been the first president and the chairman of its board of trustees in WHO (World Health Organization) since 1985.
He was offered national political leadership positions such as ministry of foreign affairs and premiership by Cemal Gürsel and Süleyman Demirel, both of which he declined.
Doğramacı spoke Turkish, English, French, German, Arabic and Persian. He authored over 100 scientific articles, three books, six book chapters and served as the editor of four medical journals.
Doğramacı was the founding President of the Council of Higher Education of Turkey (YÖK) from 1981 until 1992. He chaired the Board of Trustees in Middle East Technical University in 1965 and held the rector position in Ankara University in 1963 and several other universities in Turkey.
Another member of the family Mehmet Lütfi Kırdar (March 15, 1887 – February 17, 1961) was a Turkish physician, civil servant, politician and Minister of Health and Social Security. He is best remembered for his long-term position as the Governor and Mayor of Istanbul.
Kırdar was elected deputy of Kütahya from the Republican People's Party in 1935. In 1936, he was appointed Governor of Manisa Province. On December 5, 1938, Lütfi Kırdar became Governor and Mayor of Istanbul Province, serving at this post twelve years long until October 20, 1949.
During his term as governor and mayor, important buildings were constructed in Istanbul, among them Sport and Exhibition Center (renamed later Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center), Cemil Topuzlu Open-Air Theatre, Mithat Pasha Stadium (renamed later BJK İnönü Stadium), Taksim Square and Atatürk Boulevard, which connects Golden Horn with Aksaray in Fatih district.
In 1949, Lütfi Kırdar was appointed Ambassador to Stockholm in Sweden. In December the same year, he became deputy of Manisa from the Republican People's Party (CHP) in the intermediate election. However, he lost his chair in the parliament in the 1950 general election.
Switched over to the Democrat Party (DP), he was re-elected in the 1954 general election as deputy of Istanbul, and again in the 1957 general election.
Prime minister Adnan Menderes appointed Lütfi Kırdar Minister of Health and Social Security on November 26, 1957. He served in the cabinet until May 27, 1960 when military overtook the government by the 1960 Turkish coup d'état.
He was arrested along with all other government ministers and brought before military tribunal on Yassıada, an island in Marmara Sea. He died of myocardial infarction during his defense in the court on February 17, 1961.[2] Two days later, he was laid to rest at the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery. He is survived by his two sons Erdem and Üner.