29/05/2026
"If you kill the mind, the morals die. When reason and morality die, the nation is divided. Justice dies the day you buy the woman. The day you kill justice, the state dies. "
-Fatih Sultan Mehmet
Today, a significant part of those who praise a great visionary like Fatih Sultan Mehmet could have been among the crowd standing in front of him, even if it was during his period.
Because Fatih was not only a ruler who conquered Istanbul. It was a founding will that centered the mind, science, law, state and future. Some of the people were criticized by their ministers and powerful circles of the period because of the wise, forward-looking, revolutionary and stateist decisions he made during his era.
