Fatih tebdil-i kıyafet geziyordu,
Sadrazam Mahmut Paşa ile dolaşıyordu,
Fatih Cami yanında bir ara durdu,
Halk ne yapıyorsa alenen gördü.



Bir yeniçeri aşçısı küfür savuruyordu,
Sordu:Niye bu böyle sövüyor buyurdu,
Paşa: Aşçı niye kötü laf ediyorsun?
İnsanların içinde kızıp,bağırıyorsun?




Aşçı kızarak:Sabahtan beri gezdim,
Bir okka et yok,canımdan bezdim,
Şimdi saraya gitmeye korkuyorum,
Yemek yetişmeyecek diye bağırıyorum.




Sultanımın şehrine bile bakan yok,
Muhtesip safa sürüyor,bizi takan yok,
Ben olsam muhtesip iyi idare ederdim,
İstanbulu bırakın,dünyayı idare ederdim.




Fatih,Sadrazama dedi,bunun adını al,
Saraya varınca buna tez haber sal,
Muhtesibimiz artık,bu adam olsun,
Ne yapacak görelim,ortalık gıda dolsun.




Aşçı ağası hakikaten iyi idare etti,
Tüm gıda maddeleri gayet çoğaldı,
Bundaki sır doğru,namuslu oluşuydu,
Zor bulunan,hakyemez insan oluşuydu.



Zamanla Fatih, onu çok yükseltti,
Paşalık yaparak halkı iyi idare etti,
Bu aşçı meşhur Gedik Ahmet Paşaydı,
Tarihe adını,altın harflerle yazdı.

13.04.2011//Kırıkkale

Hidayet Doğan


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NO RIGHTS AND VISIT

Fatih was walking around with change of clothes,
He was traveling with Grand Vizier Mahmut Pasha,
He stopped by the Fatih Mosque for a while,
Public saw what the people were doing.

A janissary cook was swearing,
He asked: Why did he swear like that?
Pasha: Cook, why are you talking badly?
You get angry and shout in people?


The cook gets angry: I’ve been traveling since the morning,
I don’t have a lot of meat, I’m sick of my life,
Now I’m afraid to go to the palace
I’m shouting that the food will not be enough.

There is no one who even looks at my sultan’s city,
It continues to the top, no one cares about us,
If I were you, I would handle it well,
Leave Istanbul, I would rule the world.

Fatih said to the Grand Vizier, take his name,
When you arrive at the palace, let me know this quickly,
Our master is now, let this man be,
Let’s see what he will do, the food is full.

The cook lord really handled it well,
All foodstuffs multiplied very much,
The secret in this was that he was honest,
It was the hard-to-find, unknowable human being.

Over time, Fatih raised him a lot,
He managed the people well by acting as a pasha,
This cook was the famous Gedik Ahmet Paşay,
He wrote his name in history in gold letters.

13.04.2011 // Kirikkale

Hidayet Dogan