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PM Yıldırım attends Ertuğrul Gazi commemorations on horseback in midwestern Turkey

Sep 10, 2017 5:51 pm +03 +03:00

PM Yıldırım attends Ertuğrul Gazi commemorations on horseback

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım attended celebrations commemorating the 736th anniversary of the death of Ertuğrul Gazi, the father of Ottoman Empire founder Osman I, as well as the Söğüt Yörük Festival in the Turkish town of Söğüt in midwestern Bilecik province.

PM Yıldırım attends Ertuğrul Gazi commemorations on horseback

At the end of the event, Yıldırım greeted festival attendants while riding a horse named Kosovan, brought by the Balıkesir Karesi Mounted Archery.

PM Yıldırım attends Ertuğrul Gazi commemorations on horseback

The festival is held every September in Bilecik province, from where the Ottoman Empire is believed to have emerged.

PM Yıldırım attends Ertuğrul Gazi commemorations on horseback

The son of the leader of a tribe of Oghuz Turks that fled from eastern Iran to Anatolia to escape the Mongol occupation, Ertuğrul Gazi eventually ruled over Söğüt on the frontier of the Byzantine Empire in the 13th century.

PM Yıldırım attends Ertuğrul Gazi commemorations on horseback

The Quran is recited next to the graves of Ertuğrul Gazi and Şeyh Edebali every Friday from morning until the Friday prayer at noon in the town of Söğüt.

PM Yıldırım attends Ertuğrul Gazi commemorations

The 2014 Turkish TV-series "The Revival: Ertuğrul" is based on the life of Ertuğrul Gazi and follows the history the Muslim Oghuz Turks in the 13th century.

PM Yıldırım attends Ertuğrul Gazi commemorations

Ertuğrul Gazi is known for bravely keeping enemies away from Söğüt so that his son, Osman I, could expand his dominion during his reign from 1299 to 1326.

PM Yıldırım attends Ertuğrul Gazi commemorations

Today, Söğüt hosts an Ethnographical Museum that exhibits life-size statues of the Ottoman sultans.