Please correct if it is not too much trouble.

The President of the Republic´s summer residence, Kultaranta, stands in beautiful 54-hectare grounds in Naantali on the southwest coast. As well as the granite-built house, the complex includes numerous outbuildings and greenhouses, and a well-tended park.

Cumhurbaşkanın yazlığı,”Kultaranta”, güneybatı kıyıdaki Naantali’de güzel 54 hektarlık alanda bulunuyor. Granit eve ek olarak bir hayli dış yapı ile limonluk ve bakımlı bir bahçe binalar kompleksine dahildir.

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Kultaranta was originally commissioned by the agriculturalist Alfred Kordelin. The 19-room house was designed by the famous turn-of-the-century architect Lars Sonck, and construction work started in 1914. Alfred Kordelin only spent a few summers at Kultaranta before his sudden death.

“Kultaranta” başlangıçta tarımcı Alfred Kordelin tarafından inşa ettirildi. On dokuz odalı evi tasarlayan yüzyılın dönümünün ünlü mimarı Lars Sonck idi, ve inşaat işi 1914’te başladı. Ani ölümünden önce Alfred Kordelin sadece birkaç yaz “Kultaranta’da” geçirdi.

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The ground floor contains the reception rooms and private apartments. Upstairs are the bedrooms and guestrooms. Marble steps lead from the ground floor to the tower, from which there is a magnificent view of Naantali and the inshore islands.

Alt kat kabul odalarıyla özel daireleri içeriyor. Ûst katta yatak ve misafir odaları var. Mermer merdivenler alt kattan Naantali kasabası ile kıyıya yakın adalara harika bir manzara açılan kuleye çıkıyor.

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Kultaranta park is a kind of mini-Versailles. In the middle is the ´Medallion´, surrounded by a carefully trimmed fir hedge. Inside is Kultaranta´s famous rose garden, which has 3,500 bushes. The scent and colour of these roses are at their peak in the middle of the summer, when the President and family and their guests come to Naantali for the holidays.

“Kultaranta” bahçesi küçük Versailles gibidir. Ortasında dikkatle işlenmiş köknar çitle sarılan ”Madalyon” var. İçinde ”Kuntaranta’nın” 3500 ağacı olan ünlü gül bahçesi var. Yaz yarısında, aile ve davetlilerle başkan tatıl için Naantali’ye geldiğinde, bu güllerin koku ve rengi zirvesine ulaşıyor.

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The parkland to the north of Kultaranta is in practically a natural state, though a few sandy pathways have been built there, and the woodland is kept in good condition. Kultaranta has about 1000 square metres of greenhouses. The garden supplies the President´s household with both flowers and vegetables all year round.

Birkaç kum yol orada yapmış olup ağaçlık iyi durumda tutulmasına rağmen "Kultaranta´dan" kuzeydeki park bölgesi hemen hemen doğal haldedir. "Kultaranta´nın" toplamı aşağı yukarı 1000 metrekare olan limonlukları var. Bahçe tüm yıl boyunca başkanın evin çiçek ve sebze ihtiyacını karşılıyor.

Interesting. (Hmmm...they always knew how to infiltrate, didn´t they?)

This Catholic historian, Dr. Marmara claimed in the earlier article that Hürrem Sultan was actually Italian according to Vatican archives.

I am surprised that the information is so conflicting. It is not so ancient history, literal sources are available and everything and still.

My Try:

I love you like a wine addict who drinks from the bottle which he has rolled into a newspaper: for all the world to see but still secretly, secretly.

My Try:

Onun cevabı, kız kardeşinin çocuklarına ders vermesinin itiraf gibi görebildiğini kabul ettiği halde bunun o kadar zeki bir gençin karieri olmadığını düşünen doktoru ikna etmez.

It´s a quite complicated sentence and harp00n probably changed its structure in order to make it swing better. Mine is a learner´s attempt. Just for interest I tried to keep the subclauses as they are in the original. Does it make any sense this way, natives?

(I think  -  and I am not sure  -  -ken gerund is not the equivalent to English while subclauses in cases where they express ´even though´ and we need to use -e rağmen or -diği halde gerunds instead.)

In order to understand what a central place Ottoman Istanbul was maybe it is interesting to take a look at it from the periphery of that time, Cairo:

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/cairo/history/ottoman/ottoman.html

It’s hard to imagine what an insignificant place Egypt was on those days. Everything important was in Istanbul, a thousand kilometres away.

The conqueror of Cairo, by the way, Sultan Selim I was the predecessor of Suleiman the Magnificient who was mentioned above.

AlphaF, thank you for adding this information. Little by little we are drawing a picture of the era. I never knew about secret agreements between the Ottomans and Vatican.

Istanbul has a great symbolic value for Muslims. A Prophetic hadith promises Paradise to the leader who conquers Istanbul.

Good treatment of minorities is ordered in Islam. In this Muslims differ from Jews and Christians. Another question is how well people understand the teachings of their religion.

I mean the story would have made perfect sense even without the agreement with Pope...

http://www.haberturk.com/kultur-sanat/haber/729985-4-mehmed-ile-papa-7-alessandro-akrabaymis

4. Mehmed ile Papa 7. Alessandro akrabaymış

Rinaldo Marmara, the official historian of a Turkish Catholic organization, is the first Turk who entered secret archives of Vatican. A document that dates back to the 17th century reveals an interesting fact about Mehmed IV, Mehmed the Hunter, who was the 19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and who reigned in 1648-1687.

Dr. Marmara stresses that Vatican secret archives have until now hidden very important facts about Turkish history. As an example he shows a document which says Pope Alexander VII and Mehmed IV had a kinship relation which dated back to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificient’s (1494-1566) wife’s mother Hanne Marsigli who also was the ancestress of Pope Alexander VII.

This document claims Sultan Suleiman’s wife, the famous Hürrem Sultan was actually not a poor girl from Ukraine who ended up in the Sultan’s harem as she was introduced before in history and fiction. Instead she came from a noble Italian family. Dr. Marmara tells:

“Burada yazılanlara göre Türk korsanları İtalya´nın Siena bölgesindeki Collecehio Şatosu´na saldırdı, şatoyu yakıp yıktı. Şato, Hanne Marsigli adındaki bir İtalyan asilzadeye aitti. Bu kadının iki de çocuğu vardı. Leonardo ve Margherita. Türk korsanları Leonardo´yu geride bırakıp güzel kızıl saçları olan bu genç kızı Osmanlı Sarayı´na vermek için İstanbul´a götürdü. Hareme konulan Margherita´yı, Sultan Süleyman çok beğendi ve Margherita´nm Sultan Süleyman´dan çocukları oldu.” According to what is written here Turkish pirates attacked, burned and destroyed the Castle of Collecehio which was located in Siena area. The castle belonged to an Italian patrician called Hanne Marsigli. This woman also had two children, Leonardo and Margherita. The Turkish pirates left Leonardo but brought the beautiful red-haired girl to Istanbul in order to give her to the Ottoman Palace. Sultan Suleiman liked Margherita who was imposed to the harem and Margherita had children from the Sultan. 

My Try:

Bazen seni çok özlüyorum, seninle olmak istiyorum. Yanıtlama, senin sadece nasıl hissettiğimi bilmeni istedim.

"Bu belgede ne yazıyor?" diye sorduğumuzda, Dr. Marmara belgenin en üstünde yazan cümlenin önce orijinalini okudu.

This question seems ergative to me: ´What does it write in this document?´ There is no candidate for a third person actor in the context and in normal conditions I would expect a passive voice verb.

Does it make sense to anyone?

Thank you for your answers, AlphaF, gokuyum, ikicihan.