Video - Sultan Selim II: Poetry and Architecture

Selim II, like all the princes of Suleiman the Magnificent, was very well educated. The owner of the Divan was a valuable poet. The poems he wrote under the pseudonyms Selim and Selimi are very popular. Yahya Kemal's; His couplet, which he praises as "It has a couplet and a mosque", is considered one of the most beautiful couplets of all Turkish poetry. Selim II is also a sultan who is a developer. During his short reign, he built the Edirne Selimiye Mosque, which is considered a masterpiece of Turkish and world art. He not only fortified the Hagia Sophia Mosque, which was in need of repair, with retaining walls and enabled it to survive until today, but also added two minarets and built two madrassas next to it, turning it into a social complex. Apart from these, the repair of the waterways of Mecca, the decoration of the Masjid al-Haram with marble domes, the Nicosia Selimiye Mosque, the Aziz Efendi lodge, and the tower he built overlooking the Navarin port are among his works.