Travel Tips

Vatan Nasil Kurtarildi? (How Fatherland Was saved?) I wrote this book together with my father Major General Ahmet Hulki Saral in 1970. This book tells about the Turkish Milis of Clica, Antep Urfa, Tourus Mountains and Marash who resisted the invading British, French and their puppets Armenians after the Armistrace of Mundros in Oct. 30th 1918 which ended the Turkish WW1.

Macarlar ve Tuna Hakkinda Yazilmis Siirler 1300-2000
Poems About Hungarians and Donube written by Turks netween the Years 1300-2000

I collected the poems with my younger son Emre Saral

Gul Baba ve Masallari (Gul Baba and His Tales)

Gul Baba is a Turkish Bektashi Dervish buried in Budapest. (Look my Budapest, Ankara and Istanbul pages) I wrote this nook together with my younger son Emöre Saral

Buyuk Ustad Sehit Faik Pasa. Grandmaster of Turkish Masons Major General Faik Pasha commander of Turkish 2nd Army Corps was killed at Caucasus Front while figting againts Russian is August 31st 1916.

My new book "Yadigar-i Macaristan asr-i Abdulhamid Han" ( Memories from Hungary During The Reign Of Sultan Abdulhamid Han)

The book tells us the story of a delegate of 15 Turks to Hungary between the days April 20th- May 18th 1877 just before the Turco-Russian War of 1877-78.
Gazi Abdulkerim Pasha defeated the revolting Serbians at the battle of Aleksinac on Oct. 29th 1876. This victory coused a great pleasure at Hungary. Many nationalist Hungarians who were againts the ruling regime of Habsburg organized meetings in Budapest for jubeling the Turkish victory. They were also againts Serbs. The Hungarian Nationalists decided to send a delegation to Istanbul and to present a precious sword to Gazi Abdulkerim Pasha as a symbol of Hungarian friendship.
In order to return this present sultan Abdulhamid returned precious 35 hand written Hungarian books to Hungary which was in the library of Istanbul since 1541. The books were presented to Hungary by a Turkish delegation.
The book tells us how Turks were greeted and hosted in Hungary. The writer of the book is Mehmet Tevfik Efendi who is well known as "Caylak" (Kite) because of his magazine called "Caylak" Caylak is the first Turkish magazine of Jokes. The original text is in old Turkish letters