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abdulhamit gave an order to open the tomb of Muhammad the conqueror which

was next to the mosque in order to identify any damage and to repair it so the tomb was opened and at a depth of 3 m an iron

hatch was found from where a stone staircase led to the underground hall of the

Byzantine church there, the workers who were working there were surprised

to find a marble tomb containing the embalmed body of the mame identical to

the portrait that the Italian painter had created 5 months before the

death of the conqueror, this fact that the mame was buried in the ruins of the Byzantine church inside there is for many

the greatest proof that Muhammad wanted to be buried as a Christian and

Byzantine king in the midst of the other Byzantine emperors, it is known that

Muhammad always said that he is the successor of the Byzantine emperors,

Sultan Abdulhamit the second who for political reasons at that time had left the territory which was an Islamic sect he had

always followed and had embraced Sunnism orthodox Islam was overcome

by panic and ordered the immediate sealing of the mame's tomb the above happened before 1908 and since then the mame's tomb has not been reopened c

even today it is difficult to prove Bet's testimony on December 19, but in 1996 the weekly

pre-trials in Turkey, the akel of the group of the well-known

Sabah newspaper had been published with the following impressive title the conqueror was

a Christian and underneath it had the subtitle historians do not they were able to solve this mystery until

today many centuries after the death of the

great Fatih who Muhammad the Conqueror as is known historically had a

Christian mother most likely Greek that in today's Turkey

where the Islamic element is emerging dynamically reports on such a subject are published it was a great proof of the doubt about the

real religious identity of Muhammad even for the official Turkish establishment itself and this takes on more value if we understand the

following fatih Muhammad the conqueror was and

is one of the biggest taboos of the Turkish history of of Turkism and modern Turkish nationalism, that's why a leader like Fatih

had to personify apart from the national feeling of the people and the

religious one, and yet there in the tomb of the conqueror there is the greatest secret of the Ottoman Empire as there were testimonies that said that

next to the grave there was a cross and an image of the Virgin Mary, Mohammed the conqueror, in all probability something that is

carefully hidden from the official Turkish historiography, had embraced

Christianity at the end of his life, a religion that followed him throughout his life, while from his childhood years ago he had his first contacts with him through

his Christian mother,

it is known that one of the greatest historical mysteries is how a few thousand Seljuk Turks and Ottomans who had come to

Asia Minor in the 11th, 9th and 10th centuries managed to change everything within a few centuries

the ethnic character of an area that was inhabited by millions, many

say about 20 million Greek-speaking Orthodox Christians, there are many reasons, indeed, others mention mainly two

reasons, one reason was the force of force to convert to Islam, and the

second reason was conversion to Islam for reasons of interest, but all this the process of the religious conversion of Asia Minor

was imperfect from its initial beginning and was often in many

cases only superficial, there remained an important peculiarity that characterized Turkish Islam and as a heretical

presence within the Islamic space today this thing also emerges

from many Turks journalists and researchers with the characteristic title the

religious problem of modern turkey 10 november 2002 turkish newspaper lit in a muslim mosque the

memory of saint nectarius was celebrated in a central muslim mosque of the city libres east thrace which before the greek

residents left was a christian temple and now it is the fatih mosque the memory

of the holy nectar was celebrated as that place was where the great part of of his life, Saint Nektarios, however,

the mass presence of Turkish Muslims who, after their daily prayer, preferred

to stay and attend the Christian service in honor of the great saint of Orthodoxy for this divine service, caused a great impression on the priests who celebrated the memorial service Greeks had also come

from Constantinople as well as priests from Greece and as reported by the Turkish and Millet publications themselves, even though it lasted about three

hours, the Turks remained standing until the end and with great reverence

watching the Greek priests officiate the liturgy the representative of the ecumenical patriarchate Father Meletios, who for the last two

years has been coming and praying in honor of Saint Nektarios in the purely Greek city of Selivius, Father Meletios and two priests who had come

specially from Greece helped after the end of the liturgy, Father meletios thanked the believers and also the muslims who honored with the same

commitment as the orthodox and reverence the saint

nectarius we will now go to another publication also amazing here i have a

photo to show you january 7th

2003 this was a publication in most turkish newspapers turkala jumped to catch the cross at the consecration of the waters in istanbul

here is the photo that clearly shows the headscarf muslim woman who

jumped into the waters together with the christians to catch the

cross and the article says 50 years it was

the consecration of the waters in the horn gulf in the region of Halit, those who know

Halit are in the middle of the horn, as the Turkish press reports, and this time a great miracle happened, a young Turkala, Suna Yavuz,

a resident of Gesenin, the need to jump into the water

when the priests threw the cross to catch him and receive the blessing of the saint of this holy day, the event was highlighted by a large part of the

Turkish press as for the first time in many years the church of St.

Stephen of Gesir and St. George of Cene celebrated the consecration of the

waters at the same time when the ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew was also throwing himself on the holy cross in the area of ​​the lantern in the presence of Mr. Karamanlis

and the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Greece Mr. Giannis Magriotis and while the Greek priests were writing the Turkish publications with the cross in the

Halit sea and jumping into the frozen waters, some brave romians of the city, the young turkala also threw herself with her clothes into the sea to

catch or at least touch the holy cross and receive the blessing, explaining her action later to the Turkish journalists,

the turkala named suna boz reported to the surprised her listeners that

she did it to honor this feast of the Romans and as she pointed out that if she was given

the chance again she would do it again and jump into the water again to grab the cross and get his blessing, this fact was considered by many scholars as another

a proof that there are strong Christian remnants in the Muslim inhabitants of today's Turkey and it is another episode

of recent years that shows that this hidden orthodox

religiosity has now begun to manifest itself in many

ways April 2 March 2, 2003 Turkish newspaper

Sabah article title the church of the Panagia in Constantinople,

the last hope for the Turks, the Turkish newspaper writes,

a place of pilgrimage for prayer and supplication for the problems and sufferings of the Turks has long been the Greek Orthodox Church of the Panagia in the

central area of ​​u Kaani in Constantinople, this amazing

event of the athora attendance of Muslim Turks in the Greek Orthodox

church to pray and ask for salvation from their many sufferings was revealed by the Sunday Turkish newspaper Sabah itself,

characteristically calling the Greek church a door of

hope for a long time, as the Turkish newspaper reveals, this church has

become a place of attendance and pilgrimage for Turkish Muslims who have even given it their own name, calling it apr

i.e. the first because of the large attendance that takes place in the church

every 1st of the month, this attendance takes place regardless of the religious

character that the month has for Muslims, i.e. it can also be the month of Ramadan or some other religious Muslim holiday,

nevertheless they went in the church, it is also characteristic that these people, usually suffering and with many problems, come from

every corner of Constantinople, even from remote areas, as the reputation of the church where the Virgin Mary helps

people who come and pray to her grace had spread and had taken

large dimensions they use any means to go there even the classic carts to reach and pray to

light a candle this is what the Turkish newspaper is now writing to kiss the hand of the pope and ask for help from the Virgin who looks at them with an eternal

gaze indicative of her love was the dialogue between a Turkish woman from the

Asian suburbs who walked a long way until she came and worshiped

at the church of Yun Kaani, at the church of the Virgin Mary, the Turkish journalist asked her aunt Abba, do the Turks say you have

a problem or something woe and the classic mandylara ala answered since

my husband died we have been full of problems my children have no job my grandchildren are hungry and our life has become very difficult that's

why I came here to ask for some help I heard that he is here God's house and miracles happen here, I prayed for

the Virgin Mary to help us and to help my children too, most of them come to

ask for some help with their problems, but there are others who go to the Virgin Mary's church and ask for mental strength, moral support

even and help to find a good life in their difficult life, so great is the reputation of the church as the Turkish newspaper Sabah emphasizes

that they have come to worship even from other countries such as Iran

and Iraq May 23, 2003 that is, all are events that

happened in the last years turkish newspaper star writes the turkish

newspaper star lately an amazing

phenomenon has been observed turkala women with the typical headscarves go to

greek churches in istanbul light candles make prayers to the panagia and keep the hand of the pope with their children asking him for

some help to the problems that have been in abundance in Turkey in recent years,

as the large-circulation Turkish newspaper Sr wrote, it has

become fashionable, says the newspaper, for Muslims, and especially women, to

go to Greek churches to worship images and light

candles, asking for some favor from the great goddess while they worship the fathers

like the muslim fathers or dede es for those who know about islam

are a kind of priests and the other saints among those who go

to the churches are also the famous turkish artists mulen rso and engin

ozer lately says the star newspaper with the great economic crisis and

the great unhappiness that has fallen on the popular strata, a conversion has been observed in the Greek Orthodox Christian churches in the shrines and

in the Christian pilgrimages and there the Muslims find refuge trying to find a doctor and relief to the big

problems they have so says the newspaper pappades is perhaps trying to

make some ironic comment they replaced the muslim dads and dede es the merm ana i.e. the panagia the places of

pilgrimage while the sanctuaries are filled every day by faithful muslims who

ask for the blessing and some miracle in the sufferings they naturally reach the point like the same newspaper writes that the star should

worship even the holy images, something which, as is well known, is strictly prohibited by Islam and is considered a great sin,

surprising even the priests themselves, we will see in the video below such a phenomenon that they become recipients of all these of course mainly

desperate people who have problems such as the Christian ones churches are filled not with believers but with Turkish

headscarves, the believers are now known to be gone and many sick people in Constantinople and others of all kinds who have some

serious problem worship the saints, light candles and ask for redemption as Muslims from the Christian

saints and a amazing indeed 26/3 March 26, 2004 i.e. about

a year ago Turkish newspaper Hurriyet which is the first Turkish newspaper in circulation the title is the following Turkish

candidate for mayor in Istanbul in a suburb asked for and received the

patriarch's blessing these of course will not you haven't heard them anywhere and neither does anyone care to make such reports or

inform the major mainstream media about such events the law is of interest to them are other things so says the Hurriyet newspaper

it caused a great sensation in Turkey the fact that the candidate for mayor of the

ruling Islamic Justice and Development Party of Tap Erdoğan from an area of ​​Istanbul, after attending the

divine liturgy, he openly and publicly asked for the blessing of the

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in particular, Yusuf Toulon, candidate for mayor of the district of Sarier,

Istanbul, reverently approached the holy temple of the Virgin

evangelist to attend the divine liturgy of the evangelization of the

Virgin on March 25th, the liturgy was officiated by the Ecumenical

Patriarch Bartholomew himself and after the end of the liturgy, the Islamic candidate for mayor approached the patriarch and asked for his blessing,

in fact, as is known, Yusuf Tolon offered and a

rose to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew we are talking about a candidate of the

Islamic party of Turkey the patriarch accepted with special

pleasure the presence of the Islamic Turkish candidate for mayor and after the

end of the very warm conversation they had Yusuf said characteristically

to the surprised Turkish journalists present we received the blessing from the holiness of the patriarch, the event

caused a special impression as it is the first time that publicly and openly a Turkish politician and indeed an Islamist attended a Christian

divine service and in addition , the head of the Islamist justice and justice party requested and received the blessing of the patriarch

himself for the same matter development of the area of ​​Sir Istanbul Ercan who also

attended the service and actually received a counter-gift from the patriarch again declared to the Turkish journalists that

we follow with respect every religious

service and I will come to an amazing publication that came into my hands in

the days I was preparing to I am doing this presence on March 18,

2005 and then we will go to see the videos is the Turkish Review of Values

​​the well-known weekly Turkish review of high circulation on the front page

among the topics it presents is the following topic

what is inside a circle it

says which means they return in their religious

roots this amazing publication which is recent as I said before 18/3

of 2005 states that in the last 3 years

they have been distributed in Turkey

we are talking about events which unfortunately do not get the same publicity here

in Greece because here in what language in turkish ill the gospel in

turkish is called c and we are talking about a review

weekly which as i said was released two weeks ago

the turkish review says that in recent years the

phenomenon of many muslim christians being baptized has been observed this concerned

the turkish authorities and they tried to explore let's see what happens because it was also a matter of national security, this is how the Turks take it in all the

cases we examined, in most cases we discovered that they were people who had ancestors who had been

Islamists mainly after the Asia Minor disaster and suddenly felt after a period long after 60 since 70 years we have been

rediscovering their religious roots in many different ways and we are returning to

christianity in reports the turkish review on february 22,

2005 the 16 year old ergon er became a christian as well as his brother had

preceded him the brother of emir fethi who had become a christian in

2002 these two turks after becoming christians had left for the united states but because the investigation progressed

they found out that the mother of ergon janer and emir fethi inez manitsa was

a christian from a christian family and in fact

one of their uncle emrah had married some eudoxia from

istanbul there are many cases reported by the newspaper of people who from Muslims became Christians and he even says that more

people convert from Christianity in Constantinople but there is also an amazing phenomenon that we have cases of people who changed from

Muslims and became Christians in cities of eastern Turkey like Arbi instead of

Yaman batman respect let's see about respect it's an issue Tunjeli and

Malatia, while the districts in Constantinople where the most frequent changes of religion and changes of religion are observed are the districts of Fatih

Sisli and Emin Nu, and the district where there are the fewest changes

of religion is the well-known district of Egyup o where, as is known, they live extreme Islamists but today's speech is as follows

interesting dear friends and because I happen to be a journalist and in fact in the last few years I have worked for two of the

largest Greek newspapers, the Ethnos and the evening newspaper

, and I can tell you how unfortunately all these work

grandiose establishments that in the last period have condemned the

Greek people to a misery with the main goal and aim to

disintegrate and dissolve every trace of social fabric because I work in

journalism and I want to present documented issues I decided today to

show you a series of extremely revealing videos which I have taken

from Turkish channels where many things are revealed, of course the Turks themselves do not want to reveal what I said before, the orthodox

Christian burden, in fact many times they present and with some irony some issues which, as you will see, have many interesting

elements but before we go to the first topic I will read to you from the

Synaxari the lives of Brigadier Generals Michael and Gabriel it says in it there

once lived in Constantinople a great lord who was called stobos

he once fell ill and was in danger of dying without any doctor being able to cure him when he was sick he went to the city, someone from

Germa came to visit him, Gernei is an area in today's respect

for his anchor, so the lion told him that in Germa

there was a holy place in the name of the commander-in-chief Michael, and those who went

there were healed every disease was cured in a miraculous way, we will see later, there were small fish in the holy water which

licked the patient's body and he miraculously recovered his health as soon as

he heard this, the rich lord believed that with the help of god it can be well so he went there with many other patients

overflowing with faith as soon as he entered the sanctum he immediately became well not

only he but also all the other patients who had arrived there with him with hope and faith as soon as the lord saw so many miracles there,

shocked by these supernatural results, he spent most

of his fortune and out of gratitude and reverence built a large and

magnificent church in honor of Saint Michael, he also left

a lot of income to that temple and every day any sick person who went

there with faith found his healing many blind people found the light of

their eyes and we walked lame thanks to the sanctification of the archangel michael this

magnificent church of saint michael was a wonderful architectural

creation which was destroyed around the middle of the 10th 5th century you want to

see today what state it is in this holy thing and how the Turks

exploit it and promote it for its miraculous abilities if

we can go see the first video here is this trough with the

little fishes the miracles that you read that we heard before pilgrims go there not only from all over turkey but also

from many herpes countries if we can hear and

sound the following is happening amazing those they dive over there,

small fishes approach them and bite them, with the result that they either have skin or

rheumatic diseases and even some other strange diseases are

cured, this is the director, the Turk of the institution, of course he will not give us a report about the saint of G a nor will he say where does this miraculous

property that this place has come from but on the other hand he will say that in an inexplicable way

and from where I don't know these fish come, the small fishes that have this

healing miraculous ability and property

are kabia means fish tank in Seva svs of turkey

the amazing thing is dear friends that the Turks after they realized that this place is miraculous that it really cures diseases they have started an

international tourism campaign they have built hotels in the area you will see in

a moment where these amazing things are happening and even a presentation is being made

in that is, on the Turkish state channel from a well-known Turkish journalist, he is from Lithuania, he heard from

Lithuania, we here in Greece don't know about it, they know it outside, he heard in Lithuania that there is a miraculous place there and he went there, he had an

illness to be cured below you will also see a

German woman, this is a small child who had some severe skin problem

and as soon as she went over there she started to heal, we are talking about this holy place being on top of a huge Christian

architectural creation, the temple of Saint Michael and the place is said to be it is the sanctity of St. Michael in

reverence this lady is

German she had heard in Germany about the miraculous powers

and feels she says a great improvement because they cannot explain

where these fish come from the little fishes the little ones you see how the whole area is organized we are talking for hotel units

where they accept visitors from many parts of the outside of Turkey to go to

a place that was historically and religiously known as the saint of Saint

Michael, the Turks of course promote it but they can't

explain to us why these things happen there other than

they happen and surely this also brings some foreign exchange some financial benefit in today's turkey up to

here we will now go to another place outside the anchor over there there is a

historical catacomb the following amazing thing happens which you will see shortly above the catacomb which catacomb was

catacomb that had worked during the first period of the spread of Christianity in Asia Minor there is a Turkala which is not a Muslim

classic it is an Alevi and those who know from Alevis know that the Alevis are a large Islamic sect which has many

Christian remnants it believes in the holy trinity they accept to they drink wine while

Islam forbids wine and they also accept images and that too is

amazing now above this miraculous catacomb it was said that in the past miracles happened there a modern

turkala has been erected in the center and dozens of pilgrims go there to be cured of their diseases and there is also an amazing element that you will see the candles are lit

in this place let's take a look at the second

video here we see the pilgrims who go to the place where the

so-called ocher is located

for all this keep in mind that they are condemned in a strict way by

the official Islam and yet not only are they happening but they are also shown on the major Turkish channels, in fact there you will see that they have the anniversary the 75th

anniversary of the founding of the Turkish republic, all of them now are some cases of people who have a problem and think

they can solve it health problem some psychological problem in this way you will see but shortly after the apocalypse which

takes place as I said and before Turks come from all parts of Turkey

it's the suburb of Mamaki outside of Ankara, the capital of Turkey, and an official press crew went to see what's happening

over there and the lady tells them this is the prophet but it's an image that Muslims don't accept but they show it here because it's because she says

my abilities to help people in this early Christian catacomb

we will see in a moment we are now talking about a center which has been made and facilities to

accommodate thousands of people who come as pilgrims from all over

turkey in fact here is also the restaurant where they share meals and now let's go to see this famous catacomb which is located

right below this center and as mentioned it is a catacomb where they had testified in the early Christian period

that of course all the miraculous property of this

place has remained according to the confession of this lady of zhr as mentioned is due to the light it emits says this catacomb which was a gathering place

for Christians even before Islam came to Turkey

and of course as I told you the pilgrims every day who arrive there are tens of thousands from many places in fact many times they spend the night from outside

just so they can go inside to worship and try

to solve their problem and here we see the candles you saw candles lit we'll see it below

like here here it stops you see the point they have a small church style where

candles are lit that is amazing phenomena which, of course, as I said before,

no major channel would be interested in showing and projecting them, despite their great importance, and I will remember here something that a

Turkologist friend of mine said a long time ago, he only says that the Greek-Turkish problems will be solved and the

Greek-Turkish differences because, as we have seen, neither the zeybekikas nor the

piggy banks have solved any problem, they still exist and exist in all their intensity, then they will only be solved when many millions of inhabitants

of today's Turkey understand what their real roots are, a very difficult task, but it seems that the in recent years there has been some very serious movement

in this direction, we will now go to another catacomb that is outside of Adana,

this catacomb is called the catacomb of the seven young people who were martyred

and at this time when Christianity was spreading in this area, now we will tell me how is it possible after so many centuries that the

Turkish pilgrims go from there and even wanting to give it a Muslim character they built a mosque up there and a mosque after all they call it

a religious place over there there is also a grave where

coins are thrown in it reminds us some of our habits the place is said to be holy and miraculous many go there

also with problems they pray and try to solve their problems

you see a panoramic shot that we saw today of course there are not many traces left

from the period when these seven young people lived ed gens is called the catacomb

of the ed gens they have become the amazing thing is that in this place they say it is said by the

Turks that terrible miracles have taken place women who could not give birth went there all night they prayed and they succeeded and

acquired the maternal gift as you see them presents them turkish channel samanyolu tv which

is an islamic channel here is the amazing and we will see in a little while another also amazing the sanctification of the

apostle paul how are they going and the turks worship it and drink it like many foreigners are the seven macabres they say i don't know if they are they are outside

the Adanas they are outside the Adanas they are not in Palestina because of this and

they are 700 years earlier yes earlier yes here we are talking about seven young people in the first period when Christianity spread in

Asia Minor it is a place of pilgrimage for tens of thousands you see what they are trying

to be blessed by the place this place where holy these young people now I can't I

don't know the history I had when I had seen it you see what was burning was Lebanon they were burning Lebanon Turks burning lv

these are all strictly prohibited by the official Islamic religion of course they built a mosque on top to show and sell some souvenirs

from the place what you see there is frankincense that they burn down there and here is the church of the apostle

paul the place where they say the apostle paul was born there is a church

that the amazing thing is not only that it becomes a place of pilgrimage but there is also a sanctification, it tells the story of the apostle Paul, how he went to Jerusalem, how

he became holy and how he spread Christianity in Asia Minor, we will see now the sanctification is one like we see here the image

of the apostle Paul and here is the holy water where Turks and

foreign pilgrims who go over there drink water

if nothing else for me at least they are amazing things and in fact they drink

holy water because it says this holy water brings healing sifa sifa in Turkish it is health the apostle paul in the tarsus of today

of Turkey this is tarso stop a little here we will go now we will come closer we will

come to Thessaloniki r years ago there was a public mistake here in Thessaloniki one of the biggest

Turkish channels the tert to do a report about the house of Kemal the Turks

let's see a little what she showed us and what amazing happened on this tour of

Turkala she is the correspondent of a trt channel in

Thessaloniki let's go to see the next video so we see images

from Thessaloniki as shown by the turkish

trt channel she also plays Greek music imagine the climate, let's say it shows the

metropolis well-known well-known streets of our city of Thessaloniki some

old photos that it shows to show and give a historical color to the presentation it says some words about the

history of Thessaloniki the Turks also use to put advertisements an old Byzantine

church shows neighborhoods streets of Thessaloniki the command post

of course the report was of course about the house of Mustafa Ke Bala Ataturk which Greek journalists can't go in only Turks have

the other way to enter we see the house of Kemal Turk that it is his father's house

while it is not the father's house, Mustafa was not born there, MLL was born in Lagada, so this is the Turkish journalist who

says that when I came in here, she says she was surprised that all the furniture, the curtains, everything has nothing to do with history, it is new, what do they have he will come

either from Ankara or from Constantinople, in fact he will also show us the kemal tie, which is a well-known Turkish

brand, all the dishes you see, the furniture inside the house in Apostolo Paulus in Thessaloniki ,

and they are all transported from Turkey it was supposed to be of the kemal family and miles while

it is not you see here the tie will show us that it is of a well-known turkish brand here and now we will see the amazing going downhill

behind the panorama that goes to the lake of the holy kingdom to go to in turkey the following amazing thing happened as you will see the turkala suddenly stopped and

observed the small churches on the road she said the following the greeks have a strange habit when they are saved from an accident they build a

small church on the road and you will now see what this famous woman did Turkala

journalist found the church of the Holy Lady it is one of the churches he went to and with great reverence worshiped and lit the candle

we are now talking about Turkala

journalist did other things which he does not show us they say he kissed and you can see the pictures the candle he considered

sacred thing to light the candle we see the holy Sunday and he went to many small churches along the way and stopped and

worshiped we see Saints Michael and Gabriel another small

church up to here is the road that goes to Asprovalta and to Kavala this is Alas Surmeli and these

are the hagiographies he has been doing since when does he say he has been working on this thing at least he says for

years he says I have been doing hagiographies how did you start he says a monk once went over there and saw him painting and asked him to

make a picture he liked this image of the monk and ordered him also others and since then he says they come and order me from many parts of turkey

and hagiography now we are talking turkish muslim hagiographer ms in turkey

hagiography images that go all over turkey where do these

images go and if you see he has a special skill in

hagiography it is purely byzantine orthodox byzantine

style image listen to the word image make images it had surprised the turkish journalists then when this

case was discovered how this alain surmeli who says he has

painted jesus christ the panagia and many other saints the turks call the panagia

rena here's what it is done in modern turkey, who knows these things,

you see in what elaborate way Byzantine technique makes his hagiography, alan aen surmeli turkish

hagiographer up to here now we will go to a very well known topic known of course to those who

have lived in istanbul which i have been following for the last years and I see that every year it becomes more and more important at first when I saw it

I was surprised now I see that it has become a very big issue every year on

April 23 that is in a few days hundreds of thousands of Turkish

pilgrims go to St. George the Bell toll the prince to worship but the amazing thing that you will see here, of course the Turks tried to

make fun of the whole event and show some funny dimensions of the case is that in some places the priest over there crosses the believers

who are waiting in queues whole with the match that he has dipped in the oil of the

candle that it's burning over there, let's see what's happening these days on Saint George, the bell is ringing to the prince, a mass pilgrimage that in

recent years has taken on the appearance of a folk festival,

of course many wishes are made, many hopes, the Turks expect that

some of their problems will be satisfied, that they will be solved some disease is the thread ceremony a strange ceremony they hang a thread

from the shore and bring it up to the top which is the church of Saint George of course the canaries tried to make fun of this

case and most of the people who asked didn't know why they did this thing and why did they go to the church of St. George,

they wrote what they were asking for on a piece of paper that they hung on the

trees on the street is the uphill those who know the area from the beach it is a big hill that goes up and reaches St. George the

bell here is the church all of them are Turkish Muslims

99% opposite is Constantinople

we are talking about tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims to Saint George of the

Orthodox Christians you see how they enter the church

how they light candles caressing the icons read

prayers and here the match will be we will also see below how the priest blesses the believers, which believers the Muslims

and the local authorities have given and the character of a popular festival over there, of course they try to distort it and a little bit this whole amazing

phenomenon they present a folk festival a folk festival in honor

but St. George's Island is Prince. During the day, those tens of

thousands of Turks from all parts of Constantinople but also from other areas of Marmara go to worship and ask for the blessing

and grace of St. George of the Bell.

she says they walk barefoot from the shore

all the way uphill it reminds a little of some pilgrimage events of ours the threads each thread

symbolizes some tama some desire she doesn't speak she says

it's forbidden to speak she goes all the way and she hasn't ordered herself not to speak nothing, of course many don't know why they do it and yet

they follow this trend , it goes around in waves, it says thousands of people are arriving at

St. George here you see how he crosses here is the document how the priest crosses the Muslims on the forehead

with the match that is lit in the

candelabrum you have seen thousands of pilgrims so far and now I will introduce it to you

last issue which when I had it I had tried to give it some

publicity unfortunately there was no response from any mass media

and I say this with great boldness even though I have cooperated from time to time with many major Greek channels and have delivered TV

material to them in 1998 in December in Iso Antigone, where

there is a church in honor of Saint John the Baptist, if I am not mistaken, a great miracle took place which surprised the Turkish news at the time,

and for this purpose a well-known Turkish journalist, the opposite, with whom I had contact, had gone with him to find out exactly what

is happening in this temple and on this island we are going to see our next and last television

topic we are now talking about the island of Antigone it is a small island of the princely islands

outside of Constantinople this is the temple of St. John of baptist

where the following amazing thing happened every night around the temple

a sad sigh could be heard but we are talking about a sigh where its sound

potential exceeded the area resulting in the beginning of the

shastimara and later the interest and anxiety of the locals here is the

headmaster of the antigone district school the turkish headmaster who tries to explain ali lez

we hear he says every night a sad sigh which means there is

some such a martyrdom unfolding somewhere around the church of saint john the baptist where there is a icon of the Virgin Mary and

we will see later that the Turks attributed and gave some explanation the miracle to Rie Mana here she describes what she hears at

night Seval Nz sighs she says sad

this is a student who says she was afraid when I heard this

thing of course the turkish journalist tried to give him some ens but the fact that the whole island was disturbed for many days by this

sigh that was heard all around from the church as if it was a person

who was sighing now now they all speak as witnesses of the event who lived in the turkish

journalist here we see a panoramic view of the church of saint john the

baptist on antigone island this curious man went to

understand what is happening and took headphones he says when i took off the headphones it didn't sound when i took them off i heard this sigh people are

surprised and a little scared because they can't explain what

's happening, he couldn't explain anything except the effort he made, here we see for the first time he presents the Virgin Mary, of course, in a

somewhat unorthodox way, this Turkish journalist speaks and says that here

on our island, he says that only Greeks once lived and it was a Christian way now he says I can't explain where the Greeks left and there is also the

tragedy of the flight of the Greeks because it sounds like a sigh in a church that is now without a hymn and this is the tragic situation and the

tragedy of the island and of

church the whole island was upset and terrified many residents

turned to Turkish channels to give an explanation of what

was happening and finally the Turkish journalist decided to go into the church to talk to the Greek priest as you can see the church is

empty there are only a few left now

they are from the turkish channel

star the anguish of the people had been transmitted in a strong way to the turkish journalist who made an effort to give an explanation to the

phenomenon of this for many heartbreaking sigh of a church that had been left without a flock and approached the priest the brave collage then he was

a priest today it is not and he tells him you are a man of religion how do you explain this phenomenon the priest performs a miracle and we are talking about

1998 when there was a terribly intense confrontation between Greece and Turkey things were very acute and no one could speak freely and

whatever he wanted to turkish channel said says i says i can't explain this thing really sounds says a sigh

really confirms the fact that the night after

vespers a sigh is heard around the church but he says this he says I can't explain it then

of course he gave an explanation he said it could be a message of peace between the two peoples of Greece and Turkey what can he say yes that's exactly what I could do

now see how he does it figuratively, he tried to give a representation, of course I don't think it's a correct

representation, but he gives a picture of what was happening outside the

church, pate Andreas Kolaj is clearly in a crash, he didn't want to go out and talk to the Turk, a very

difficult year in Greek-Turkish relations but Vea forced him to say some words

finally the candidate outside the Turkish journalist expressed the views of the

Turks of the Turks of the Muslim residents of the area he went he brought him he said maybe it is a miracle of Mary Mana Mary Mana is a very

sensitive i.e. of the Virgin Mary a sensitive religious element for

Muslims the father said it is a message of peace he showed the mosque and next to the church that the two peoples should live

in peace but the explanation given by the Turkish journalist and most of the residents was that it was a message from the Virgin Mary with an eschatological

dimension for the end of the times, that is, it was a sad cry of

the Virgin Mary herself for her concern for the situation in which the faithful have fallen, and of course we must not forget that we are talking about a church that

was once full of Hellenism and from an orthodox flock and today it is deserted

and empty and the living testimony of this tragedy is this priest the brave

Klantzos and scared in front of the turkish

lens here we see a panoramic view of the antigone of the church and her care

this here is the virgin thank you very much