Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi - Modern Era

Modern Era

  • One of the three airports in Istanbul carries the name "Hezarfen Airfield".
  • A feature length film, "Istanbul Beneath My Wings" (İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında, 1996) concerns the lives of Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, his brother Lagari Hasan Çelebi, and the Ottoman society in the early 17th century, as witnessed and narrated by Evliyâ Çelebi.

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