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2 unusual facts about Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi


Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi

In 1648, John Wilkins cites Busbecq, the Austrian ambassador to Constantinople in 1554-1562, as recording that "a Turk in Constantinople" attempted to fly.

A 1996 feature length film, "Istanbul Beneath My Wings" (İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında) concerns the lives of Hezârfen Ahmet Çelebi, his brother and rocket aviator Lagari Hasan Çelebi, and Ottoman society in the early 17th century, as witnessed and narrated by Evliyâ Çelebi.


Lagâri Hasan Çelebi

Istanbul Beneath My Wings is a 1996 film about the lives of Lagari Hasan Çelebi, his brother and fellow aviator Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, and Ottoman society in the early 17th century as witnessed and narrated by Evliya Çelebi.


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