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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 4 March 2022)
Plenty of blood flowing on both sides lately.
Hürrem Sultan, the wife of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificient, was said
to have had great influence on him and to have intervened in some affairs
of state. The "Ukrainian" Hürrem entered the palace as a concubine and
Ukrainians assert that she was entirely one of them, born in Rohatyn near
Lviv in today's western Ukraine, where a statue of her has been erected.
However (!), at the time of Hürrem Sultan's birth, the area was on the
Polish border so some people identify her as Polish. In addition, some
historians claim that she was of Russian blood and that her real name
was Aleksandra.
This claim came on the agenda of the Ukrainian Embassy in Ankara in
January 2019. There is a sign at the entrance of the Süleymaniye
graveyard about the life of Hürrem Sultan, but the text related that she
was of "Russian blood". Consequently, the Ukrainian Ambassador sent
a note of objection to the Turkish Foreign Ministry, saying that the
Ukrainians call her "Roksalana" (Roxelana) and that the reference to her
"Russian blood" must be removed from the sign, which it was.
In a statement on Twitter issued on 25 January 2019, the Ukrainian
Embassy declared that "step by step we are setting the historical record
straight. Thanks to an appeal by our embassy, the Turks have removed
the portion of the text on a sign in front of Hürrem Sultan's tomb at the
Sülemaniye graveyard that mentioned her "Russian blood".
However (!), a few days later, on 28 January, the Russian Consulate
General in Istanbul released a tweet, ridiculing the Ukrainian Embassy's
assertion that the removal of the words "Russian blood" had set the
historical record straight and that actually, although her birthplace is
in today's Ukraine, at the time of her birth that place was 'Rohatyn,
Kingdom of Poland'. The Russians wondered in the tweet "So where
is the truth?" and derisively and sarcastically added that "this is quite a
victory for Ukrainian diplomacy!"
Yes, Hürrem Sultan, there once was a Kingdom of Poland
from whence you came.
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