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10.       caliptrix
3055 posts
 11 Sep 2008 Thu 07:36 pm

Basically, it says one of the sultans were a gay/homosexual, but there is no proof about it.

11.       thehandsom
7403 posts
 11 Sep 2008 Thu 08:08 pm

 

Quoting caliptrix

Basically, it says one of the sultans were a gay/homosexual, but there is no proof about it.

 

I think you can find many historical source that some of the sultans were gay..(who was the sultan at the time? Murat IV? I will check)

But does it matter really?

12.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 11 Sep 2008 Thu 10:44 pm

there is no reference in this movie to homosexuality as far as I remember, but it`s true that many ottoman emperors were homosexual. there is a big deal of proof about this.

13.       Roswitha
4132 posts
 11 Sep 2008 Thu 11:07 pm

 I am and also the others here will be curious, tamikidakika:

 

Kindly send an explanatory  link. Thanks.

 

14.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 12 Sep 2008 Fri 12:29 am

 

Quoting Roswitha

I am and also the others here will be curious, tamikidakika:

 

Kindly send an explanatory link. Thanks.

 

 

I don`t have time to look through the internet for that, but it`s well proven in the book "Osmanli`nin Kanli tarihi" by Ismail Metin. I don`t think you can find it in English though.

 

http://www.netkitap.com/kitap/2607/osmanlinin_kanli_tarihi.htm

 

15.       Roswitha
4132 posts
 12 Sep 2008 Fri 12:38 am

I too have no time like you, when  I searched the internet, this popped up:

 

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/01/17/Floridian/A_city_comes_out.shtml

 

There is one famous painting, see before

16.       longinotti1
1090 posts
 12 Sep 2008 Fri 09:13 am

Somehow this thread turns away from the subject of flying across Boshporus:

(Do want to see the movie!)

 

Here is my view.   When I came to Istanbul in 2006 and visited Galata Tower, I learned of the flight.

Given that it succeeded.   Had Sultan exploited this accomplishment to the maximum.   The world would be very different.

 

(Airpower in the 15th century! Flight changed warfare in the 20th century).. 

 

I would not be learning Turk because I would have beenraised with it. I am OK with that.

 

(Caliptrix:  I have no knowledge of the Sultans, but I think Rulers do what they chose to do, as we all do.   American Presidents did whatever they did.  And here in the USA their conduct or misconduct is a source of great entertainment that is just as it is!  fact or fiction, who knows, but I know it is entertainment!)

 

Now Ros, wasn´t your graphic image just a little,  a tinsy tiny bit,   maybe, over the top?

17.       longinotti1
1090 posts
 12 Sep 2008 Fri 11:19 am

 

Quoting Roswitha

 I am and also the others here will be curious, tamikidakika:

 

Kindly send an explanatory  link. Thanks.

 

 

 

 I saw bored people ın osmanlı dress lookıng at the  a young person holdıng a snake.

 

Roswitha, what point, (that you are willing to explain) are you making?.  (Yes I deleted the image which I felt carried connattions that I refuse to pertuate!)

18.       lady in red
6947 posts
 12 Sep 2008 Fri 11:31 am

 

Quoting Roswitha

 I am and also the others here will be curious, tamikidakika:

 

Kindly send an explanatory  link. Thanks.

 

 

 

 What exactly does he need to explaın? 

19.       longinotti1
1090 posts
 12 Sep 2008 Fri 12:29 pm

 

Quoting lady in red

 What exactly does he need to explaın? 

 

 The picture posted into the number 13 reply.. Small person with snake?  What was its point?

20.       Joyce111
276 posts
 12 Sep 2008 Fri 02:36 pm

I assume the small person with the snake is a boy, and he´s naked. Being watched by adult men (Sultans?). The point being that maybe some of the Sultans were homosexual

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