REPUBLIC

It’s noon in a hot August. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥ATATÜRK is sitting at his table by the window at the famous KARPIÇ RESTAURANT in Ulus, watching the passers-by with a thousand thoughts in his head.

A movement on the other side of the road attracts his attention.

To passers-by; so that the iced syrup in it does not get hot; He takes the wooden glass from the leather-covered copper ewer on his back and the wooden cup holder with 4-5 compartments tied around his waist, after shaking it with the water he pours from the water jug in his hand, he bends his waist forward and hands the glass filled with sherbet to his customer.

He shouts the inscription on his chest, this time in a loud and harmonious manner, praising the cold syrup he sells;

KNOWS THE MAN… he knows the connoisseur…

Mustafa Kemal wants the main actor of this scene, which he likes, to be invited to his side.

Erbabı Bilir, who was brought before ATATÜRK, with his pitcher on his back, covered in sweat, was a little worried and confused;

“Will you give me a glass of syrup?”

said to the great leader; extends the syrup glass, which it cools even more by transferring it.

After the great commander finished the syrup offered to him in one gulp; He puts down the ewer on his back and asks her to sit in front of him.

Connoisseur Bilir thinks he is in a dream for a moment, first pinches his buttock, then realizes that it is not a dream and sits in front of Ata.

ATATÜRK orders the waiters to open a service for him on the table. First, mutual respect is asked; then ATATÜRK with his incomparable intelligence,

He asks whether the people are satisfied with the newly announced REPUBLIC Regime.

“The majority of the Turkish nation is satisfied, my pasha,” and he will be satisfied when he receives the answer. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE REPUBLIC IS?” she asks him.

Erbabı Bilir is an ignorant villager. What should he know about the thing called REPUBLIC? But he does not want to be ashamed of Mustafa Kemal Pasha. It changes almost instantly. Instead, something like this is true. Then he says one by one;

“ REPUBLIC… A poor person like me; To be able to sit at the table of his father, who is the savior of the Turkish Nation, is to be put in the place of a man.”

Thereupon, Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK, to his aide standing in front of him; those blue eyes flashingly he says;

“Yeast has taken … yeast has taken…” He is joyful like a child. Meanwhile, the sherbet maker asks for permission. ATATÜRK gets up and helps ERBABI Bilir, who is preparing to leave, to take the pitcher on his back. The man does not want to give permission first. But this is for the hops; It is the most important and beautiful memory of his life. Throughout his life, he will say to his friends in every conversation, “ATATÜRK helped me carry my pitcher on my back”. The above story may seem very simple to us. But yes… I think too; “REPUBLIC is the replacement of citizen for MAN.”