Background :
In 1501 an admiral in the Ottoman navy named Kemal Reis captured seven Spanish ships off the coast of Spain, near Valencia. Aboard one of the prizes he found a strange feather headdress and an unfamiliar black stone. He was told by one of his prisoners that both came from newly discovered lands to the west, beyond the Sea of Darkness. The prisoner claimed to have visited these lands three times, under the command of a man named Colombo - and what was more, he had in his possession a chart, drawn by this man Colombo himself, that showed the newly discovered lands. (source listed below)
Sunday,July 2 2017, Your time is 1:24:31 AM
Documentary reveals adventures of Ottoman sailor Piri Reis, Christopher Columbus
İZMİR - Doğan News Agency
Researcher and documentary maker Gülşah Çeliker has pushed the button to make a documentary on the famous 16th century Ottoman admiral, cartographer and sailor Piri Reis.
Çeliker, who made her name heard with the project on Turkey’s first female fighter pilot, Sabiha Gökçen, says she is very excited to present the 75-minute documentary to Turkish and international audiences.
The documentary will feature dramatic reconstructions starring actor Mehmet Günsur as Piri Reis, Riccardo Scamarcio as Christopher Columbus and actress Deniz Özdoğan. Can Atill will reportedly compose the music for the film.
Çeliker said she prepared the film by researching Piri Reis in the Ottoman archives as well as in the Vatican, Venice, Spain and Portugal naval archives.
She said the idea for the venture started in 2004 at an international symposium on Piri Reis.
“With the support of the Culture and Tourism Ministry, I made my first Mediterranean trip in mid-2008 for the documentary. I was trying to provide maximum support to the project by getting in touch with important institutes and travelling between Turkey, Venice and Rome,” Çeliker said.
“When I saw Piri Reis had drawn Italy most, apart from Ottoman territory, I carried the project to Italy. I started researching our common naval history and got into the archives of the Vatican and Italian Naval Forces,” she added.
After the famous Piri Reis Map was found in the inventory of the Topkapı Palace in 1929, German orientalist and Professor Paul Kahle attended the 18th Orientalists Congress in the Netherlands to introduce this discovery to the world and explained the original link between the Piri Reis map and the lost map of Christopher Columbus.
“Considering this congress, I worked in the Dutch archives and did interviews there. I needed separate work for some special documents in the Dutch Royal Archive. Amsterdam has a significant place for my discoveries and archive research,” Çeliker said.
‘I can’t wait’
She also said that if she can find a sponsor she will meet the grandchild of Columbus in Madrid, as well as with a researcher who made books on the harbor where the naval archives and Columbus’s ships are in Barcelona, and on the common points of Piri Reis and Columbus.
“We will finish the documentary at the end of this year and present it to Turkish and international audiences. As the Köprüler Production, we continue making the most accurate and most comprehensive research on Piri Reis and the unknown details about his life and work,” Çeliker said.
“I have also written a history book titled ‘Cartographer and Explorer’ on the relationship between Piri Reis and Columbus, and I based a film script on the research, memories and stories I noted while writing the book. Now I can’t wait to share Piri Reis’s adventure with Columbus with the world,” she added.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/do...mbus.aspx?pageID=238&nID=114948&NewsCatID=381
Piri Reis map showing South America
Important link for more information :
http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199203/piri.reis.and.the.columbus.map.htm
When Kemal Reis dies his nephew piri Reis wrote this below.
Good friend, I want you To remember us in your prayers,
And remember Kemal Reis, our master,
May his soul be content!
He had perfect knowledge of the seas
And knew the science of navigation.
He knew innumerable seas;
No one could stop him ....
We sailed the Mediterranean together
And saw all its great cities.
We went to Frankish lands
And defeated the infidel.
One day an order from
Sultan Bayazid arrived.
"Tell Kemal Reis to come to me,"
It said, "and advise me on affairs of the sea.
So in 1495, the year of this command,
We returned to our country.
By the sultan's command we set out
And won many victories....
Kemal Reis sailed hoping to come back,
But was lost at sea.
Everyone once spoke of him;
Now even his name is forgotten....
The angel of death caught him
While he was serving Sultan Bayazid.
May God give peace to those
Who remember Kemal Reis with a prayer.
Kemal died and went to the next world
And we found ourselves alone in this.
When the Piri Reis map was discovered in the Topkapı Palace Museum in 1929 (See Aramco World, January-February 1980), it was naturally the long inscription referring to Columbus that excited the most interest. Paul Kahle, the first scholar to write about the map, suggested that the Caribbean portion of it was based on a map drawn by Columbus himself, just as Piri Reis states. If so, this Turkish map is the only evidence we possess for how Columbus visual*ized his discoveries.
Here is what Piri Reis tells us in a long legend on the map itself:
These coasts are called the shores of Antilia. They were discovered in the year 896 of the Muslim era [AD 1490]. It is reported that a Genoese called Colombo was the first to discover these territories. It is said that a book came into his hands which stated that at the end of the Western Sea, on its western side, were coasts and islands and different kinds of metals and precious gems.
This man, having studied the book thoroughly, explained these things one by one to the great men of Genoa and said: "Give me two ships and I will go and find these regions!" "O foolish man" they said, "in the West there is nothing to be found but the end and limit of the world! It is full of darkness" The said Colombo saw there was no help to be had from the Genoese so he went to the king of Spain and told him his story in detail. The king gave him the same answer as the Genoese. At last, after Colombo had been very insistent, the king gave him two ships, equipped them well, and said: "O Colombo, if what you say is true, I will make you admiral over that country!' Having said this, he sent the said Colombo to the Western Sea.
The late victorious Kemal [Reis] had a Spanish slave. This slave said that he had been three times to that land with Colombo. He said: "First we sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar, then we voyaged straight ahead for 4000 miles, sailing a middle course between west and southwest in the Western Sea. Then we saw an island ahead of us and the waves became still and the sea becalmed. The North Star... gradually became veiled and finally invisible" He also said that the stars in that region are not disposed as they are here; they are in a different arrangement.
They anchored at the island they had sighted in front of them. The inhabitants of this island approached, shot arrows at them and did not allow them to land and get information. The men and women shot arrows, the tips of which were made of fishbone. The entire population goes naked. When they saw that they could not land on the island, they sailed to the other side, where they saw a boat. When it saw them, the boat fled and the people ran away onto the land. They took the boat and saw that it was full of human flesh. The people of that nation went from island to island hunting men and eating them.
The said Colombo saw another island; they drew near it and saw that it was covered with large snakes. They did not land on this island, but stayed at anchor for seventeen days. The inhabitants of this island saw that no harm came to them from the ship, so they caught fish and brought them in their little boats. The Spaniards were pleased and gave them glass beads. It seems that Colombo had read in a book that glass beads were valued in that region. When they saw the beads, they brought still more fish and the Spaniards gave them more beads.
One day they saw gold on the arm of a woman; they took it and gave her beads. They told her to bring more gold and said they would give her more beads. The natives went and brought more gold. It seems that in their mountains there were gold mines.
One day they saw someone with pearls. When they gave glass beads for them, more pearls were brought to them. Pearls were found on the shore of this island, in a place one or two fathoms deep. They loaded their ships with brazilwood and took two natives with them and returned within the year to the king of Spain. The said Colombo, not knowing the language of these people, traded with them by signs. After this trip, the king of Spain sent priests and barley.
The Spaniards taught the natives how to sow and reap and converted them to their religion. The natives had no religion at all. They went naked and lay about like animals. Now these regions have been opened to all and have become famous. The names which mark the places on the islands and coasts were given by Colombo, in order that these places might be known by them. Colombo was also a great astronomer. The coasts and islands on this map are taken from Colombo's map.
Another source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map
In 1501 an admiral in the Ottoman navy named Kemal Reis captured seven Spanish ships off the coast of Spain, near Valencia. Aboard one of the prizes he found a strange feather headdress and an unfamiliar black stone. He was told by one of his prisoners that both came from newly discovered lands to the west, beyond the Sea of Darkness. The prisoner claimed to have visited these lands three times, under the command of a man named Colombo - and what was more, he had in his possession a chart, drawn by this man Colombo himself, that showed the newly discovered lands. (source listed below)
Sunday,July 2 2017, Your time is 1:24:31 AM
Documentary reveals adventures of Ottoman sailor Piri Reis, Christopher Columbus
İZMİR - Doğan News Agency
Researcher and documentary maker Gülşah Çeliker has pushed the button to make a documentary on the famous 16th century Ottoman admiral, cartographer and sailor Piri Reis.
Çeliker, who made her name heard with the project on Turkey’s first female fighter pilot, Sabiha Gökçen, says she is very excited to present the 75-minute documentary to Turkish and international audiences.
The documentary will feature dramatic reconstructions starring actor Mehmet Günsur as Piri Reis, Riccardo Scamarcio as Christopher Columbus and actress Deniz Özdoğan. Can Atill will reportedly compose the music for the film.
Çeliker said she prepared the film by researching Piri Reis in the Ottoman archives as well as in the Vatican, Venice, Spain and Portugal naval archives.
She said the idea for the venture started in 2004 at an international symposium on Piri Reis.
“With the support of the Culture and Tourism Ministry, I made my first Mediterranean trip in mid-2008 for the documentary. I was trying to provide maximum support to the project by getting in touch with important institutes and travelling between Turkey, Venice and Rome,” Çeliker said.
“When I saw Piri Reis had drawn Italy most, apart from Ottoman territory, I carried the project to Italy. I started researching our common naval history and got into the archives of the Vatican and Italian Naval Forces,” she added.
After the famous Piri Reis Map was found in the inventory of the Topkapı Palace in 1929, German orientalist and Professor Paul Kahle attended the 18th Orientalists Congress in the Netherlands to introduce this discovery to the world and explained the original link between the Piri Reis map and the lost map of Christopher Columbus.
“Considering this congress, I worked in the Dutch archives and did interviews there. I needed separate work for some special documents in the Dutch Royal Archive. Amsterdam has a significant place for my discoveries and archive research,” Çeliker said.
‘I can’t wait’
She also said that if she can find a sponsor she will meet the grandchild of Columbus in Madrid, as well as with a researcher who made books on the harbor where the naval archives and Columbus’s ships are in Barcelona, and on the common points of Piri Reis and Columbus.
“We will finish the documentary at the end of this year and present it to Turkish and international audiences. As the Köprüler Production, we continue making the most accurate and most comprehensive research on Piri Reis and the unknown details about his life and work,” Çeliker said.
“I have also written a history book titled ‘Cartographer and Explorer’ on the relationship between Piri Reis and Columbus, and I based a film script on the research, memories and stories I noted while writing the book. Now I can’t wait to share Piri Reis’s adventure with Columbus with the world,” she added.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/do...mbus.aspx?pageID=238&nID=114948&NewsCatID=381
Piri Reis map showing South America
Important link for more information :
http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199203/piri.reis.and.the.columbus.map.htm
When Kemal Reis dies his nephew piri Reis wrote this below.
Good friend, I want you To remember us in your prayers,
And remember Kemal Reis, our master,
May his soul be content!
He had perfect knowledge of the seas
And knew the science of navigation.
He knew innumerable seas;
No one could stop him ....
We sailed the Mediterranean together
And saw all its great cities.
We went to Frankish lands
And defeated the infidel.
One day an order from
Sultan Bayazid arrived.
"Tell Kemal Reis to come to me,"
It said, "and advise me on affairs of the sea.
So in 1495, the year of this command,
We returned to our country.
By the sultan's command we set out
And won many victories....
Kemal Reis sailed hoping to come back,
But was lost at sea.
Everyone once spoke of him;
Now even his name is forgotten....
The angel of death caught him
While he was serving Sultan Bayazid.
May God give peace to those
Who remember Kemal Reis with a prayer.
Kemal died and went to the next world
And we found ourselves alone in this.
When the Piri Reis map was discovered in the Topkapı Palace Museum in 1929 (See Aramco World, January-February 1980), it was naturally the long inscription referring to Columbus that excited the most interest. Paul Kahle, the first scholar to write about the map, suggested that the Caribbean portion of it was based on a map drawn by Columbus himself, just as Piri Reis states. If so, this Turkish map is the only evidence we possess for how Columbus visual*ized his discoveries.
Here is what Piri Reis tells us in a long legend on the map itself:
These coasts are called the shores of Antilia. They were discovered in the year 896 of the Muslim era [AD 1490]. It is reported that a Genoese called Colombo was the first to discover these territories. It is said that a book came into his hands which stated that at the end of the Western Sea, on its western side, were coasts and islands and different kinds of metals and precious gems.
This man, having studied the book thoroughly, explained these things one by one to the great men of Genoa and said: "Give me two ships and I will go and find these regions!" "O foolish man" they said, "in the West there is nothing to be found but the end and limit of the world! It is full of darkness" The said Colombo saw there was no help to be had from the Genoese so he went to the king of Spain and told him his story in detail. The king gave him the same answer as the Genoese. At last, after Colombo had been very insistent, the king gave him two ships, equipped them well, and said: "O Colombo, if what you say is true, I will make you admiral over that country!' Having said this, he sent the said Colombo to the Western Sea.
The late victorious Kemal [Reis] had a Spanish slave. This slave said that he had been three times to that land with Colombo. He said: "First we sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar, then we voyaged straight ahead for 4000 miles, sailing a middle course between west and southwest in the Western Sea. Then we saw an island ahead of us and the waves became still and the sea becalmed. The North Star... gradually became veiled and finally invisible" He also said that the stars in that region are not disposed as they are here; they are in a different arrangement.
They anchored at the island they had sighted in front of them. The inhabitants of this island approached, shot arrows at them and did not allow them to land and get information. The men and women shot arrows, the tips of which were made of fishbone. The entire population goes naked. When they saw that they could not land on the island, they sailed to the other side, where they saw a boat. When it saw them, the boat fled and the people ran away onto the land. They took the boat and saw that it was full of human flesh. The people of that nation went from island to island hunting men and eating them.
The said Colombo saw another island; they drew near it and saw that it was covered with large snakes. They did not land on this island, but stayed at anchor for seventeen days. The inhabitants of this island saw that no harm came to them from the ship, so they caught fish and brought them in their little boats. The Spaniards were pleased and gave them glass beads. It seems that Colombo had read in a book that glass beads were valued in that region. When they saw the beads, they brought still more fish and the Spaniards gave them more beads.
One day they saw gold on the arm of a woman; they took it and gave her beads. They told her to bring more gold and said they would give her more beads. The natives went and brought more gold. It seems that in their mountains there were gold mines.
One day they saw someone with pearls. When they gave glass beads for them, more pearls were brought to them. Pearls were found on the shore of this island, in a place one or two fathoms deep. They loaded their ships with brazilwood and took two natives with them and returned within the year to the king of Spain. The said Colombo, not knowing the language of these people, traded with them by signs. After this trip, the king of Spain sent priests and barley.
The Spaniards taught the natives how to sow and reap and converted them to their religion. The natives had no religion at all. They went naked and lay about like animals. Now these regions have been opened to all and have become famous. The names which mark the places on the islands and coasts were given by Colombo, in order that these places might be known by them. Colombo was also a great astronomer. The coasts and islands on this map are taken from Colombo's map.
Another source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map
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