Video - The Words on the Other Side: A Journey of Education and Friendship

"From the windows of the mansion, only one side of the hill could be seen... My father wondered what was written on the other side; he called me, 'Son, go and see what they have written on the other side,' he said... I went, read, came back, told... Just a "Oh!.." he said, he didn't say a single other word... "The union officers thought they had finished with writing the words 'Freedom, justice, equality, brotherhood' on the ground... In order not to eat up their rights, let me add this: those who were so disrespectful to my father wanted me to do a good education, some of them assigned me to study... My first teacher was a captain named Nazim Bey, after he taught me for six or seven months, Mahmud Bey, who served as a Deputy of Siirt during the Republic and published the Milliyet newspaper, became my teacher... "When the Balkan War broke out and the Bulgarian and Greek armies approached Thessaloniki, we were transferred to Istanbul... The German Emperor had an old friendship with my father, he sent the expedition yacht to Thessaloniki, we sailed with this yacht... The German captain, father, 'I