NEW YORK’UN SEMBOLÜ SAYILAN ”ÖZGÜRLÜK HEYKELİ” NİN PEK BİLİNMEYEN ÖYKÜSÜ

The ‘Statue of Liberty’, considered the symbol of New York, is not known much.
story

The statue was planted in Egypt, which was Turkish land in the middle of the 19th century.
prepared for the purpose of French, but some later experiences Because of the misfortunes, he had made his way to America instead of Egypt. Your job is even more
strange part of it, the majority of the costs of the statue, the ruler of the time
It was paid by Sultan Abdüláziz in person.

When we say ‘NEW York’, for the sake of most of us, rising on the island right in front of the city and skyscrapers, with its base comes the 93-meter “Statue of Liberty”. In France in the 1880s most of the expenses of the Statue of Liberty made from us
that his project was not in New York, It was prepared to be planted in Egypt and a misfortune at the last moment Do you know that he went to America as a result?

Here is the short story of this missed opportunity:
The land of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, Egypt, the first century
‘Hıdiv’, a descendant of Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Pasha since the years of
was run by the governors with the title and became independent in their internal affairs He had arrived. Egyptian governors signed only with foreign countries
they were obliged to certify financial protocols to the sultan by agreements and
Istanbul often fulfilled such demands.

French engineer Ferdinand of Egypt Governor Said Pasha to Lesseps
It was prepared in 1854 and will connect the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
The Suez Canal project, which was approved by the Ottoman ruler
It was available. Behind the project was France, but Britain, the Mediterranean and
Such a preparation that could end its dominance in India
opposes and rejects Sultan Abdüláziz, the ruler of the time,
kept under constant pressure for. Said Pasha approves of Istanbul
and on November 30, 1854, the French engineer brought the project to life.
gave the permission to establish the company necessary for the transition.

All stocks of the company established with French capital
when sold, Britain put even more pressure on Sultan Abdüláziz
started, and the ruler did not approve the project of the Pasha for 12 years.
On the other hand, the Egyptian side started to work before Istanbul’s approval came, but Said Pasha died suddenly in 1863. İsmail Pasha, who was succeeded, was not a French, but a British supporter, so the importance of the project in the first years of his rule he did not, but what kind of life was Kanal in Egypt in the following years?
When he realized that he would bring a change, he hugged him. Excavations
when the French government was about to complete, Sultan Abdülaziz
He started to pressure more than the British. Sultan Abdulaziz,
While allowing the Kanal with the edict published on March 19 of 1866, the Kanal
Company and the agreements reached between Said and İsmail Pasha,
moreover, Egypt’s external debt for channel construction
and guaranteed a very high amount to the shares of Kanal Company.
 
ASIA WILL BE LIGHT
Between Said Pasha and the channel’s engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps
The agreement reached in 1854 had a very interesting article: Kanal’s
It opens to the Mediterranean A giant statue would be erected on the ground. Sculpture of the time of the pharaohs she will be in the form of a woman in her clothes and
He would hold a torch that symbolized that his light came from Egypt. Sultan
Abdülaziz paid Some of the expenses of the statue to be made among the coins are also
It had.

Pasha and engineer, one of the well-known sculptors of France
Frederic Auguste ordered Bartholdi, even a lot of advance
was paid and Bartholdi started to work. To be mounted where it will be planted
The statue, prepared in pieces, was completed a few years later,
It can be placed in a few weeks in the place where it opens to the Mediterranean.
brought and transported to Egypt by a ship from Marseille
Even preparations were made, but after Said Pasha, Egypt
İsmail Pasha, who happened to be such a big person in a Muslim country
He thought that the erection of the statue would create discontent among the people and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps instructed not to bring the statue to Egypt.
He gave. Engineer’s efforts to persuade Pasha remained fruitless. Suez Canal 1869 In November, guests from all over the world attended the big
but it was opened with ‘no sculpture’ ceremonies. Bartholdi’s work, this is in Egypt After what happened, he was put in a warehouse in Paris and left to dust. HE France and the United States on another side of the world in the years There is a big conversation between the states and the parties They were making gestures on gestures.

SCULPTURE ON THE WAY
Edouard, leader of the French-American friendship group founded in Paris Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye, the French Government of Americans in France persuaded to send a gift to remember their friendship all the time and the gift was decided to be a huge statue. Statue a he will hold a book symbolizing the law in his hand, and the ‘world
it would carry a torch, a symbol of freedom that illuminates. Order again
was given to the same sculptor, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. the Barthold
work it was already ready, it had been in a warehouse for years and its only shortcoming some changes in the upper part, that is, with his hands, arms and face It was done.

The Americans are small, right at the entrance of New York
They decided to settle on one of the islands. Bartholdi, the pedestal
He traveled to New York to see his place and returned to Paris to work again started. Engineering of the sculpture made of copper and steel Gustave, whose sides erected a tower named after him in Paris He finished working with Eiffel and completed it in the first days of June 1884. He handed over his work to the French government. Bartholdi face the statue completely and changed the metal to the silhouette of his mother Charlotte.

Sculpture consisting of 350 pieces made to be mounted together ‘Isére’
It was loaded onto a French ship named New York on November 4, 1885.
It reached. A donation for the construction of the statue’s base in New York, meanwhile campaign has started, the first donation is Hungarian immigrant, ‘World’ in New York Joseph Pulitzer, who published a newspaper named “Made” and made 100 thousand
he had given dollars. Hungarian immigrant journalist, then the world in journalism Pulitzer, who is considered the biggest award, would also be the father of the name. Qaeda After its construction, it was time to erect the sculpture and open the picture.
Bartholdi is the engineer of the Suez Canal this time next to New York and the statue Ferdinand, the father of thought, also went to take Lesseps, and in 1886 In the ceremony held on 25 October, he opened the book in person.