Kerim Sarilar
03-09-2007, 07:18 AM
THE ONLY WITNESS
In 1915, as the result of exchanging captives in the canal after taking their captives back, the English said ours ‘’ You are free ! ‘’ and they made our captives get on their ship which was used to carry their own captives. After that they opened fire on that ship and made the ship sunk with hundreds of Turkish Muslim young boys who has died for Islam.This story was written in the memory of Ghazi MUSTAFA DELİHASANOĞLU (his name is Mustafa Karaaslan in the Turkish Rebublic term) who could survive on a piece of wood from that ship which sank with hundreds of Turkish boys. Information was taken from Temel Karaaslan who is Ghazi Mustafa Delihasanoğlu’s son and now is the elected head of Gödekli Village.
Mustafa Delihasanoğlu, who was born in Gödekli Village in 1893,lost his father at the age of two. His brother Kadir was four years old. For a very long time Kadir and Mustafa grew up as orphans until their ages of military service. When they reached the military age , the mobilization for war began. Kadir had gone and never returned back, nobody had known in which front he had been. Mustafa had also gone to the army and had returned after experiencing lots of pains. And now while narrating his father’s upset story , his son elected head Temel Karaaslan not only becomes melancholy but also wipes his tears coming from his eyes.
In 1912 a discovery unity which was making discovery by the command of an Ottoman Commander met a very crowded number of
English soldiers in the Palestine front. English soldiers started on intensive fire and they were on their horses. Delihasanoğlu Mustafa stayed in the seige of the English soldiers.He resisted to survive in the swamps and rushy places within three days. On the fourth day he shot the commander of the English soldiers.While commander was falling down,he called in a Turkish accent to him ‘’ Get on my horse ! ‘’ . At that moment, Mustafa ‘s care turned out to the horse and he was trying to get on the horse. But the English commander shot him from the shoulder and knee. And commander was killed by the bullets coming of Mustafa’s gun. English soldiers took Mustafa captive. They closed him into a room. They didn’t look after him for three days. On the fourth day , a doctor and three nurses came. Mustafa had been in pains. Doctor told ‘’ We will cut your foot.’’ The nurses said ‘’ But he is a hero. We can take care of his foot. That is our duty.’’ The doctor said ‘’ Okay, yes.’’ Nurses drained the dirty blood in his leg. Two nurses regularly treated him for three months. He stayed under captive in that English camp for three years. Ottoman and English Commanders made negotiations about the exchange of captives. In 1915, first English took their captives back by their ships. Then they moved that ship on which there were Ottoman captives by the company of an Ottoman officer on the direction of Palestine. After a while they made fire to that ship and sunk it with the Ottoman captives. The colour of the canal changed into blood red and its name became ‘’The Red Sea’’. When a cannon bullet fell into the chimney of the ship, an enormous explosion happened. The voices of the Islamic confession of faith and also trying to survive on a piece of wood on the sea. One night he felt that his foot was touching the sand and then he tried hard and reached to a land. He begged to God ‘’ My God , Please that land could be our own land.’’ He had hidden under a quay until it became morning. In the morning he noticed that he had been on the land of Turkish Sovereignty and went out. His right eye had taken a stain after the explosion on the ship. He looked for his unity and found them. The doctor in his unity gave him retirement report from the army. He travelled to Hatay by ship. He landed on Hatay and he slept in the day time and continued walking at nights. He ate the roots of plants and the animals he hunted in the woods. After having walked for three months, he met the shepherds of sheep on the high plateaus of Ordu Gölköy. He called the shepherds ‘’ Don’t let the dogs came here !’’ The shepherds ordered the dogs not to move. The dogs laid on their places. The people on the high plateau called him ‘’ Now you can step on their heads, they don’t do anything any more’’. Mustafa came near them and he greeted them and introduced himself. They also said hello and asked him where he was going. Mustafa answered them ‘’ I am coming from the Red Sea which was painted into red with our blood and going to Gabi Gödekli ‘’ and talked about what had happened to him from the beginning to the end.
The people on the plateau helped him and they gave him a hand . They prepared him a bath and gave him new clothes. They fed him for fifteen days. And after fifteen days he came to Giresun over Mesudiye on foot. He travelled to Samsun from Giresun by ship. But at the villages of Canik mountains Greek Gangs started enemities to Turkish Nation. In the coastal region Turkish and Greek villages are sometimes next to each other. Greek Gangs which was formed in the Canik mountain villages started murdering innocent Turkish Nation making surprise attacks to the Turkish villages by being together with the prolongations of the Greek Gangs in there, in the east to Ordu and in the west to Havza or Vezirköprü. These were spoken in whispers in the teahousesin the city centre in which Mustafa dropped. Mustafa was murmering to himself , ‘’ They don’t do military service and moreover they stab us in the back. Oh my God, oh my God...’’. Ghazi Delihasanoğlu went out of the town at the daytime. He felt asleep in the woods among the bushes near the bed of a river. When he woke up the Moon was shining, he stood up and started walking. He reached Düzören Village nearly in the morning. He found the church priest with whom their childhood passed together. Mustafa’s feet were swollen and injured badly because of walking during days. He shouted to the priest : ‘’ Al eko ... ‘’ After a while the priest came out of the house , he was very worried. But the priest approached him softly and gently remembering their happily passed days in the childhood and the priest asked him : ‘’ what do you want, Mustafa ? Things have changed a lot from those days to these days. We aren’t on those good old days any more’’. Ghazi Mustafa Delihasanoğlu showed him his feet and told the priest : ‘’ They are swollen and injured badly. Can you take me to Gödekli Village on the horse ? ‘’ The priest looked at Ghazi Mustafa sadly and explained : ‘’ Mustafa, our chiılhood passed together. We were like brothers. But while you are in the army, conditions changed a lot. At the moment my family in the house would kill you. But I prevented them from doing that. Can you understand the condition now ? But I will take you to Hanbarpınar (Düzardıç neighbourhood). Mustafa then noticed that some armed Greek were watching them secretly in the house. For instance he said to the priest : ‘’ Don’t bother yourself for me. I will try to go by myself.’’ The priest bent his head and said to him : ‘’ God will protect you. Have a good trip.’’ Later they looked at each other sadly. That was the strange seperation of two old friends whose childhood had passed together. After Mustafa had left the priest there, he walked through the woods under the trees. He was really escaping from there.
He sat down at the beginning of a spring water where a path went down to the road. He drank water, washed his feet without leaving any marks behind. He began resting in the bushes under the trees away from the spring. After a while he heard voices coming from the spring water. Those were armed Greek Gangs. He whispered to himself : ‘’ While we are in the army,they got out of control.’’Then he was startled and he held his breath. If what they would come to this destination. The struggles in the army came into his mind. God protected him everywhere and he survived all time and he didn’t die. He was then at the point of reaching his village and his family, he didn’t anything to prevent their reunion. He thought about his wife and his village again. H e brought his hand to his sword bayonet and held it tightly in case of requiring to use it against the gangs. He was convinced that the Greek Gangs were going down the mountain, and he became relieved. He thought to himself :
Written by KERİM SARILAR
In 1915, as the result of exchanging captives in the canal after taking their captives back, the English said ours ‘’ You are free ! ‘’ and they made our captives get on their ship which was used to carry their own captives. After that they opened fire on that ship and made the ship sunk with hundreds of Turkish Muslim young boys who has died for Islam.This story was written in the memory of Ghazi MUSTAFA DELİHASANOĞLU (his name is Mustafa Karaaslan in the Turkish Rebublic term) who could survive on a piece of wood from that ship which sank with hundreds of Turkish boys. Information was taken from Temel Karaaslan who is Ghazi Mustafa Delihasanoğlu’s son and now is the elected head of Gödekli Village.
Mustafa Delihasanoğlu, who was born in Gödekli Village in 1893,lost his father at the age of two. His brother Kadir was four years old. For a very long time Kadir and Mustafa grew up as orphans until their ages of military service. When they reached the military age , the mobilization for war began. Kadir had gone and never returned back, nobody had known in which front he had been. Mustafa had also gone to the army and had returned after experiencing lots of pains. And now while narrating his father’s upset story , his son elected head Temel Karaaslan not only becomes melancholy but also wipes his tears coming from his eyes.
In 1912 a discovery unity which was making discovery by the command of an Ottoman Commander met a very crowded number of
English soldiers in the Palestine front. English soldiers started on intensive fire and they were on their horses. Delihasanoğlu Mustafa stayed in the seige of the English soldiers.He resisted to survive in the swamps and rushy places within three days. On the fourth day he shot the commander of the English soldiers.While commander was falling down,he called in a Turkish accent to him ‘’ Get on my horse ! ‘’ . At that moment, Mustafa ‘s care turned out to the horse and he was trying to get on the horse. But the English commander shot him from the shoulder and knee. And commander was killed by the bullets coming of Mustafa’s gun. English soldiers took Mustafa captive. They closed him into a room. They didn’t look after him for three days. On the fourth day , a doctor and three nurses came. Mustafa had been in pains. Doctor told ‘’ We will cut your foot.’’ The nurses said ‘’ But he is a hero. We can take care of his foot. That is our duty.’’ The doctor said ‘’ Okay, yes.’’ Nurses drained the dirty blood in his leg. Two nurses regularly treated him for three months. He stayed under captive in that English camp for three years. Ottoman and English Commanders made negotiations about the exchange of captives. In 1915, first English took their captives back by their ships. Then they moved that ship on which there were Ottoman captives by the company of an Ottoman officer on the direction of Palestine. After a while they made fire to that ship and sunk it with the Ottoman captives. The colour of the canal changed into blood red and its name became ‘’The Red Sea’’. When a cannon bullet fell into the chimney of the ship, an enormous explosion happened. The voices of the Islamic confession of faith and also trying to survive on a piece of wood on the sea. One night he felt that his foot was touching the sand and then he tried hard and reached to a land. He begged to God ‘’ My God , Please that land could be our own land.’’ He had hidden under a quay until it became morning. In the morning he noticed that he had been on the land of Turkish Sovereignty and went out. His right eye had taken a stain after the explosion on the ship. He looked for his unity and found them. The doctor in his unity gave him retirement report from the army. He travelled to Hatay by ship. He landed on Hatay and he slept in the day time and continued walking at nights. He ate the roots of plants and the animals he hunted in the woods. After having walked for three months, he met the shepherds of sheep on the high plateaus of Ordu Gölköy. He called the shepherds ‘’ Don’t let the dogs came here !’’ The shepherds ordered the dogs not to move. The dogs laid on their places. The people on the high plateau called him ‘’ Now you can step on their heads, they don’t do anything any more’’. Mustafa came near them and he greeted them and introduced himself. They also said hello and asked him where he was going. Mustafa answered them ‘’ I am coming from the Red Sea which was painted into red with our blood and going to Gabi Gödekli ‘’ and talked about what had happened to him from the beginning to the end.
The people on the plateau helped him and they gave him a hand . They prepared him a bath and gave him new clothes. They fed him for fifteen days. And after fifteen days he came to Giresun over Mesudiye on foot. He travelled to Samsun from Giresun by ship. But at the villages of Canik mountains Greek Gangs started enemities to Turkish Nation. In the coastal region Turkish and Greek villages are sometimes next to each other. Greek Gangs which was formed in the Canik mountain villages started murdering innocent Turkish Nation making surprise attacks to the Turkish villages by being together with the prolongations of the Greek Gangs in there, in the east to Ordu and in the west to Havza or Vezirköprü. These were spoken in whispers in the teahousesin the city centre in which Mustafa dropped. Mustafa was murmering to himself , ‘’ They don’t do military service and moreover they stab us in the back. Oh my God, oh my God...’’. Ghazi Delihasanoğlu went out of the town at the daytime. He felt asleep in the woods among the bushes near the bed of a river. When he woke up the Moon was shining, he stood up and started walking. He reached Düzören Village nearly in the morning. He found the church priest with whom their childhood passed together. Mustafa’s feet were swollen and injured badly because of walking during days. He shouted to the priest : ‘’ Al eko ... ‘’ After a while the priest came out of the house , he was very worried. But the priest approached him softly and gently remembering their happily passed days in the childhood and the priest asked him : ‘’ what do you want, Mustafa ? Things have changed a lot from those days to these days. We aren’t on those good old days any more’’. Ghazi Mustafa Delihasanoğlu showed him his feet and told the priest : ‘’ They are swollen and injured badly. Can you take me to Gödekli Village on the horse ? ‘’ The priest looked at Ghazi Mustafa sadly and explained : ‘’ Mustafa, our chiılhood passed together. We were like brothers. But while you are in the army, conditions changed a lot. At the moment my family in the house would kill you. But I prevented them from doing that. Can you understand the condition now ? But I will take you to Hanbarpınar (Düzardıç neighbourhood). Mustafa then noticed that some armed Greek were watching them secretly in the house. For instance he said to the priest : ‘’ Don’t bother yourself for me. I will try to go by myself.’’ The priest bent his head and said to him : ‘’ God will protect you. Have a good trip.’’ Later they looked at each other sadly. That was the strange seperation of two old friends whose childhood had passed together. After Mustafa had left the priest there, he walked through the woods under the trees. He was really escaping from there.
He sat down at the beginning of a spring water where a path went down to the road. He drank water, washed his feet without leaving any marks behind. He began resting in the bushes under the trees away from the spring. After a while he heard voices coming from the spring water. Those were armed Greek Gangs. He whispered to himself : ‘’ While we are in the army,they got out of control.’’Then he was startled and he held his breath. If what they would come to this destination. The struggles in the army came into his mind. God protected him everywhere and he survived all time and he didn’t die. He was then at the point of reaching his village and his family, he didn’t anything to prevent their reunion. He thought about his wife and his village again. H e brought his hand to his sword bayonet and held it tightly in case of requiring to use it against the gangs. He was convinced that the Greek Gangs were going down the mountain, and he became relieved. He thought to himself :
Written by KERİM SARILAR