Video - The Defiant Gazi Osman Pasha: A Historic Encounter

After Gazi Osman Pasha was captured, he was being taken by car to the Bogotá headquarters. On the way, Prince Karol of Romania approached him and wanted to congratulate this hero. But Osman Pasha looked hard at Karol. The prince extended his hand and said, "Congratulations." But the Pasha vehemently refused. Because Romania was a state that remained under Ottoman rule for centuries. Işmdi had rebelled against the state to which he was subject and had used weapons against it. For this reason he did not give his hand. When he fixed his hard eyes on Karol, he did not know what he was suffering from, and pulled his hand away as if he had committed a misdemeanor. At that moment, the Russian commander-in-chief, Grand Duke Nikola, approached the side of the car to see Gazi Osman Pasha's face. The two commanders looked at each other's faces for about two seconds. Nikola, after holding Osman Pasha's hand tightly, said: -I congratulate you on the strength you showed in the defense of Pleven.