CIRAGAN PALACE RAID



Ciragan Palace

    The most beautiful places of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus were reserved for sultans and important people for their palaces and mansions. Many of them have disappeared over time. Çırağan, a large palace, also burned down in 1910. It was built by the Palace Architect Serkis Balyan by Sultan Abdulaziz in 1871 on the site of a previous wooden palace. The partition and ceiling of the building, which cost 4 million gold in 4 years, were wooden and the walls were covered with marble. Outstanding examples of stonework, richly furnished columns would complete the spaces. The rooms were decorated with precious carpets, the furniture was decorated with gold gilding and mother-of-pearl engravings. Like the other palaces of the Bosphorus, Çırağan was the venue for many important meetings. It had façades decorated with colored marble, monumental gates, and was connected to the Yıldız Palace on the back ridges by a bridge. Street side was surrounded by high walls. The ruin, which had been in ruins for years, was revived after major repairs and turned into a beautiful 5-star beach hotel with the additions added next to it.

Ali Suavi

        Ali Suavi is an Ottoman thinker and writer who lived in Istanbul between 1839-1878. He is considered to be the first activist of the idea of ​​Turkism.
II. He is a historical personality known for his unsuccessful coup attempt against Abdülhamit. Because of this incident, he was called "The Turban Revolutionist".
He was a person who pondered to find a solution to the political and social problems of the Ottoman Empire, took Islam as a reference and put forward Turkist and Turanist views. He was in Paris and London with the Young Ottomans during the reign of Sultan Abdulaziz; He wrote articles against the government and published a newspaper. He returned to his homeland during the reign of Abdulhamid; He was the manager of Galatasaray Sultanisi for a while. After he was dismissed from this position, he wanted to put Murat V on the throne by raiding the Çırağan Palace with a few hundred people he had organized while he was unemployed; During this attempt, he died with a stick blow to his head by Yedi Eight Hasan Pasha.


Ciragan Palace Raid

    II. After Abdülhamit's accession to the throne and amnesty with the declaration of the constitutional monarchy, Ali Suavi, like many of the New Ottomans, returned to Istanbul. Ali Suavi from Abdulhamid, who followed a policy of keeping the opposition under control by distributing various positions, became the director of the Mekteb-i Sultani (Galatasaray High School). Ali Suavi, who made many important innovations while in this position, fell out with the sultan after a while, and thus the subjective conditions of the first "civil revolution" attempt began to be prepared.
II, which dissolved the Assembly and suspended the Constitution. Ali Suavi, who saw that Abdülhamit was heading for a repression regime, carried out organizing work among Rumelian immigrants and armed about 150 people. His aim was to save the former sultan Murad V, who was living in a "cage" in the Çırağan Palace, with a raid and to put him on the throne again. It was said that the health of Murad, who was deposed on the grounds that he was mentally unstable, had improved.
On May 20, 1878, armed, Ali Suavi and his men, embarking on boats, set off from Üsküdar, crossed the Bosphorus and landed at the Çırağan Palace. Ali Suavi and his men, who neutralized the palace officials who never expected such a thing, entered the section where Murad was closed and tried to persuade the former sultan to come with them. However, frightened by the turmoil that ensued and unable to understand what had happened, the former sultan resisted the rebels and refused to come with them.
If they could convince Murad V, they would have returned to the Anatolian side with the boats they came from and would have declared the new sultan there. However, the whole plan fell through when the old sultan, who was already mentally unstable, did not cooperate with the rebels. At that time, Abdülhamit's "Beşiktaş Guard Yedisekiz Hasan Pasha", who raided Çırağan, attacked Ali Suavi and his men with police officers and soldiers. During the conflict, Pasha, who hit Ali Suavi on the head with a thick stick in his hand, put this "turbaned revolutionist" on the ground and killed 60 of his men and suppressed this interesting revolution attempt in Ottoman history.
This ignorant man, called "Yedisekiz Hasan Pasha" because his signature resembles the Arabic numbers seven and eight because he was illiterate, lived in Europe for a while, produced many works and was the director of the country's most important educational institution, Ali Suavi. When he kills him with a stick, it's like a great commander who won a field battle. He was rewarded with the rank of "Musir" by Abdulhamid. Ali Suavi, on the other hand, took his place among the forgotten names of history, perhaps due to the fact that he had a quarrel with the "Poet of the Homeland" Namık Kemal.

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