Video - The Sultan's Cane Gift to Veterans

The Ottoman-Greek war of 1897 had ended in victory. Sultan II. Abdulhamid was in great joy. He had all those injured in the war brought to Istanbul and placed them in Gümüşsuyu hospital and Şişli Etfal hospital, which he had just built. He was sending people to hospitals every day, learning about the condition of the injured. Sultan Abdulhamid had an interest in carpentry. There was a carpenter's workshop in the Yildiz Palace, and when he was tired of government work, he would come here to relax, making wooden items, each of which was considered a masterpiece of art. One morning he went down to the workshop again. As soon as he entered the door, he encountered carpenter Mehmed Usta. Immediately to the master:-Come on, Master Mehmed! cut down 150 cane trees...-The decree of our lord. But what about all these cane trees?-I researched, I found out that about 150 of our veterans were injured in their feet. Although these are fine, they will need a cane to walk. I'll make them each a walking stick and give them as a gift when they leave the hospital and go to their hometown.