Muhammad Hassaan is a young journalist from Lahore who tried to introduced a new ray Pak-Turk relations by introducing the website ‘turkey Urdu’.
Whether turks come to Pakistan, or Pakistanis go visit Turkey, they can find common culture and civilization at every point, but the western cultural offenses have blurred that line. The recent drama serial, Drilis Ertugral has revived that culture in front of the young generation. Muhammad Hassaan’s “turkey Urdu” is based on that which will be visible in the coming days.
The opening ceremony of turkey Urdu was in the Islamabad club in the presence of some of the very important people of Islamabad. Among many other speakers, the chairman of the Parliamentary Kashmir committee, Shahryar Afridi, and former defense secretary, General Khalid Naeem Lodhi was also present. Sheharyar Afridi, according to his temperament warned India to be on guard because we are going to jump into the cultural arena under the leadership of Imran khan.
The author of these lines brought to light that it is obvious to India that they can’t change Turkey’s point of view regarding Kashmir. And after losing in this regard, India has started working on its cultural aspects, they have started celebrating Holi and built their ashrams in turkey as well. And in opposition to Indians’ cultural offenses, we have not taken a single step. It was expected from Mr. Afridi that he may talk about this issue, but he couldn’t get out of the slogans.
Turkish Ambassador, Ihsan Mustafa Yurdakul, was the chief guest of this ceremony. He has an active personality. In a short span of time, he has made his place in the hearts of the Pakistani people. By remembering the honorable Lala Abdul Rehman Peshawari, who was a participant of the the Khilafat movement, he said that he believes that after returning to his country, Pakistanis will remember him as Lala Mustafa, just as Turkish remember Lala Peshawari.
The Turkish Ambassador mentioned the historic relations and the strategic situations of both the nations in his address and moving forward also said something that is related to today’s situation. He said that Turkish companies are not a burden on Pakistan. This sentence can be viewed as the problems for the Turkish companies and seizing their assets in Lahore.
Is Pakistan at that turn that a Turkish Ambassador has to complain regarding it? If Mr. Afridi had not left after delivering his speech, then he might have felt what difficult time has come upon Pak-Turkish relation.