Former Minister of Culture Gökhan Maraş, after the books telling the life story of Şeyh Edebali and Ahi Evran-ı Veli, who fought the greatest struggle against the occupation of Anatolia by the Mongols and pioneered the birth of the world state of the Ottoman Empire, the novel Sultan Alaeddin Keykubat
KIRŞEHİR (İGFA) – Lawyer Gökhan Maraş, who served as the President of the Bar Association in Kırşehir for 3 terms after the Ministry of Culture and is known for his interest in history, met with the readers of his novel “Sultan Alaeddin Keykubat”.
After the novels of Ahi Evran, who introduced the Ahi-order to the world from Kırşehir and Şeyh Edebali, who was born in Kırşehir, who contributed greatly to the transformation of the Ottoman principality into a state, Maraş, the first 10 sultans of the Anatolian Seljuks, is as bright as a star, He said there were those who raised the state. Noting that Keykubat was a very good diplomat and soldier, Maraş said, “Keykubat introduced the concept of state insurance for caravans doing business for the first time in the world. All caravans trading with the Seljuk country are under the guarantee of the Seljuk State against the damage to be caused by bandits and thieves on land and sea. There is no precedent for this in the world. The aim of the Sultan is to improve the trade in his country and to enrich his people and his state ”. {2nd}