Video - The Last Goodbye: Sultan Abdulhamid's Funeral

Sultan Ii. The Death of Abdulhamid He was able to endure the diseases of his advanced age, which were considered normal, by clenching his teeth. However, he was so sad about the state of the country that day, the melting of the imperial lands kneaded with the blood of the ancestors, the people lost in wars, that he was almost waiting for death in the depression of these disastrous news!.. The funeral ceremony of my father Abdulhamid also takes an important place among my sad memories that I will never forget. Dec. I can definitely claim that no sultan who died during the last period of the Ottoman Empire was given such a great ceremony. However, my father was not a ruler when he died. He was a former sultan who was removed from his throne by a Parliamentary decision based on a fatwa and detained in custody. He had no influence on the government and the nation. Even in the eyes of a large community, he was under the accusation of evil deeds that were not very in his favor!.. Even so, at his funeral, it was as if the whole of Istanbul was standing up to see him off. Be taken hand in hand from Sultanahmed to Divanyolu