Either I shall take Constantinople, or it shall take me, dead or alive.
Ya İstanbul beni alır, ya ben İstanbul'u
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Mehmed II
7th Ottoman sultan (1432-1481). At 21 he conquered Constantinople, ending the thousand-year Byzantine Empire as Fatih ("the Conqueror"). He built Topkapı Palace, codified Ottoman law, but legalised royal fratricide.
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