Foundation that provides education to children who cannot read due to lack of money.
Foundation that provides education to children who cannot read due to lack of money.
There was an unprecedented activity around the Bayezid Mosque in Amasya. The crowd moved with a voice:
-Our Sultan is coming!… Our Master the Sultan is coming!…
While his white horse was following the control of the grooms, Sultan Bayezid II was walking towards the madrasa of the kulliye with his viziers. The people of Amasya, who looked at the bright-faced Sultan with admiration, were praying for him. In the courtyard of the madrasah, there was a student who stood out from the others with his clothes, manners and actions. This Sultan was Prince Selim, who was glad that his father had come and ran towards him… Bayezid II, after hugging and kissing his son with longing, looked around. His eyes fell on a few barefoot, uncovered children among the crowd gathered to see him in the courtyard of the complex. His heart broke. He immediately asked the officer next to him about the situation.
-Who is being educated in this madrasah, Master?
-More to the children, my sultan.
-What about the children you see?
-They are forced to work by their families out of necessity.
The official shrugged. It was strange to the king. He gently let go of his son Selim's hand and announced his historic decision that will not be forgotten even after centuries:
-This is the mosque and madrasah of all my people. From now on, no child will be deprived of school due to financial impossibility. Educational expenses are covered. Clothing, eating and drinking will also be covered.
-Heads up, my sultan.
The Sultan was well aware that this order could only gain a temporary basis thanks to a foundation. A moment's eye contact in Amasya, where he had come to visit his son, had brought a foundation that would provide education to the poor children of Amasya with a hundred percent scholarship. 2. This foundation, which was registered as the Bayezid Foundation, will later expand its service network and make it a foundation condition to cook food for the children of low-income people, as well as for all the needy, passengers and guests, and even to give barley and oats to their passenger animals.