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How could they lose themselves like this?
How could they draw swords on a frontier bey?
Ertuğrul Bey will give the decision about Sancar in the feast of beys tomorrow.
Bahadir Bey will listen to no decision, Turgut Alp. He'll do anything for his son.
I remember well how he stood up against my father and the oba once.
You saw how he got the support of Emir Sadettin.
He got to my beys too and persuaded them to a feast!
Turgut, I don't know how to stop him anymore.
Ertuğrul Bey wishes you to postpone the feast.
The beys support him. How can I do that?
Tell your beys, "It is Ertuğrul Bey's command,
there won't be a feast until Bahadir's oba arrives."
Ertuğrul Bey has thought this through.
Since the two tribes of the Cavdars are to unite,
the beys of the two Cavdar obas should come together and decide.
This will buy us time.
My bey wishes to see you too at the feast tomorrow, Aslıhan Hatun.
Ertuğrul Bey's wish is my command.
Go and tell him, "Aslıhan Hatun will do what's necessary."
Neither my alps nor my people will turn their backs on Ertuğrul Bey.
So long as Ertuğrul Bey is here.
So long as you are next to me.
Your oba is my oba...
Your life is my life, Aslıhan Hatun.
I will allow neither him nor his son to ignite the fire of unrest in our obas.
Don't you worry.
My brave sons.
I was in agony longing for you.
Now, even if they gave me the world...
I wouldn't exchange this for anything.
Father, when will you take me hunting?
We will go, my son. We will go.
From now on, we will always be together.
We will go to your little brother's first hunt too
and ride into your first battle together too, God willing.
God willing.
My Gündüz was so brave while you were gone.
You should have seen him swearing for revenge,
he roared like a lion.
He was the one who fought our cause the most.
My Gündüz...
is my trusted one, my source of pride.
While this innocent boy's heart is aflame
our cause could never be left undone, Halime.
My Gündüz's heart is larger than Dündar and those witless beys.
Gündüz, go to Aktolga, my son.
I won't go. I'm going to stay with my father.
Gündüz.
There is more to being an alp than the sword.
Come, tend a little to Aktolga.
Without being a fellow to your horse, you can't be an alp.
As you wish, my bey.
Run along then.
I'd die for him.
Ertuğrul.
Dündar made a bad choice.
I stood against him.
He made a mistake.
You stripped him of his beyhood in front of everyone.
Why don't you go easy on him now.
Things are not what they seem, Halime.
There are bigger forces at play beneath this market and immigration business.
What are you saying, Ertuğrul?
The hungry wolves have gathered.
My brother and the witless beys were about to be fed to them.
We stopped it for now.
However, the game is still on.
Dündar will learn what his foolishness has cost.
He will pay the price.
Eminence.
Even if an outcast from my oba is harmed I would make that man regret he was born.
That Ertuğrul slew my alps in front of my eyes.
Give me permission to slaughter him with my hands and feed him to the ravens.
Whether we like it or not, Ertuğrul Bey is the frontier bey of these lands.
If you stand up to a frontier bey, you will deal with the consequences.
Forget it, it's in the past.
Now, be patient, it is time for patience.
Eminence, not even a dog can stomach what he did.
I cannot be patient. Give me permission, I will take his head off.
Bahadir Bey.
When rage is high, all logic is lost.
Learn to take control of your anger first.
The sultan will soon call me to Konya. What will you do when I'm gone?
Ertuğrul is the frontier bey of this land. Do you think he will let you stay here?
It is up to Ertuğrul to let you settle here. Don't you see?
I see, Eminence.
Good.
Now, quickly get to your oba.
Gather your beys in the morning and hold the feast.
Become the bey.
When you get to Ertuğrul,
he will have nothing to say to you as you will be the bey of the Cavdar.
As you wish, Eminence.
When I sat on this hide, I had but one goal.
To take my homeland further than where Suleyman Shah had carried it.
I was left without ancestors.
But I did not leave my oba leaderless, helpless and run away!
What did my...
beloved brother do?
Just because the bey died he tried to bury the memory of all those people and run.
Whatever punishment you see fit...
I will take on, brother.
I...
I am not you, brother.
I am not as powerful, as brave as you.
I did what I could.
I was afraid the Kayi would fall apart. I was afraid I couldn't handle them.
Son.
If there is a fault, it falls on us all.
Stay out of this, Mother.
The one who assumes beyhood should be ready to pay the price!
You!
You were the flag-bearer of a cause!
Did you not know our way at all?
Everything went awry in your absence, brother.
Hanlı Bazaar's order was disturbed.
Bandits hit the caravans. We couldn't take them down.
Tekfur Ares came to the market.
He said he would pull out his merchants if I didn't sell the market.
Ameer Sadettin backed me into selling.
I had no other choice.
You know who Tekfur Ares is, Dündar?
Tekfur Ares is the one who ambushed me and my alps and killed them!
What did you say, son?
Foul bastard!
Brother...
How could I have known?
Forgive me.
What's been said here will be kept a secret.
I have things to attend to.
Now, we wait.
When the time comes, everything will be dealt with.
This shame is too heavy for me, brother.
Give the order...
I will get that bastard's head to make up for my faults.
You're going to take his head, eh?
I will fight together with the ones who gave their hearts to my cause.
However, you have no place in that fight.
It is my order...
gather your things.
Get to my brothers' oba in haste.
Tell them that your brother Ertuğrul is alive,
so they don't mourn for their sibling.
And don't return to this oba until I send word.
Son...
As you command, my bey.
We have a rough war awaiting us.
There is no place in it for the faint-hearted or the weak-minded.
Who are you?
You!
-Guards! -What's that?
God forbid, my bey, if anything happened to you
we saw what would become of us.
Everyone will have learned their lesson from it.
You sought our cause in my absence.
You did not leave the path.
Thank you, my beys.
Thank you, too. Ever be here to lead us, my bey.
Until we find who ambushed you and our alps and make him pay,
may God not let us rest, my bey.
I know who ambushed me.
Who was it, my bey?
Tekfur Ares.
My bey, then...
Then what are we waiting for, my bey? To war!
Let's take that bastard infidel's head.
That scoundrel! Let us get to his fort right away and give him what's coming.
Make him pay.
Let us hang that dog from the walls of Karacahisar and make an example of him.
I will set up the one who set us up with the biggest of ambushes, Turgut.
I will catch him off-guard at his own fort.
I will not let him hide behind his lies,
his deceit or his walls.
It's Commander Yorgo. Commander Yorgo?
Send word to the fort.
I will write a letter to our sultan explaining everything.
We will get everything ready by the time the firman to conquer arrives.
But my bey, why didn't you behead that infidel today?
I wanted to see if he had anything to do with Ameer Sadettin, Bamsi.
I will act as if I know nothing.
Meanwhile, we will begin preparations to conquer.
We will go visit the fort. I will reach out in fellowship.
When we are there, we will inspect the fort thoroughly.
We will see how fortified it is.
If they fight us from behind the walls
the emperor will send help.
The siege will last for months.
We will raid it off guard.
We will catch them as if in their sleep.
With you leading us, my bey...
we have no fear of the enemy, no doubt of victory.
None, my bey, none. Oh, my heart!
It runs wild like a horse, my bey.
May God permit me to see the day we take it, my bey.
We had been left to rust in your absence. Now we are sharp as honed swords, my bey.
Our cause is to engrave God's justice onto even the smallest stone.
Now, we fight for this cause.
The firman is from our sultan, martyrdom is from God.
May God be with us and help us.
Yes, Ertuğrul Bey. As you command.
Ertuğrul...
He is to decide about my son and my oba in front of the beys tomorrow.
Let's see what his decision will be.
Who does he think he is to decide in front of the beys?
After all his impertinence, what business do we have there?
Let's not go, so he'll be humiliated.
Don't get involved in things you don't understand, Sancar.
I want Ertuğrul's head more than you do.
Alas, everything has its time.
He humiliated us in front of everyone.
To top it off, he slew our alps.
-I can no longer take it. -Sancar!
Don't do something crazy. This is a serious matter.
It is time to think with your head.
Ertuğrul said that he will decide
both about you and our oba at the feast of beys tomorrow.
Don't you get that?
It would not benefit us to stand back, Father. We cannot bow to his threats.
Tomorrow morning, at our oba's feast, Bahadir Bey will sit in our marquee.
Bahadir Bey will arrive at Ertuğrul Bey's feast as the bey of the unified Cavdars.
Then, he will decide accordingly.
Oh, Sancar!
If only you had half the wit my hatun has.
Do you think I will stomach what Ertuğrul has done?
Let him play sovereign for now.
I will make the real decision once the time comes.
Permission to enter, Bahadir Bey.
Come in, Kırca.
Aslıhan Hatun wishes to see you with the beys at her marquee, Bahadir Bey.
What is that impudent woman up to now?
Let us go and see.
You'll be of great use to us, bastard. You will confess to everything.
As-Salaam-Alaikum.
Wa-Alaikum-Salaam.
Come, sit, Bahadir Bey.
I consulted with my beys on a matter. I wanted you to participate as well.
What's is it, Aslıhan Hatun?
What did you consult without informing me?
I have things to say about the feast, Bahadir Bey.
I have postponed our oba's feast for beyhood,
with permission from Ertuğrul Bey.
When your oba arrives, the beys of the two fellow obas will sit...
and choose the Cavdar's bey.
You have no authority or power to do that, Aslıhan Hatun.
You've had the Cavdars be belittled following Ertuğrul's tail long enough.
I will no longer allow it.
The feast for beyhood will be held in the morning.
You cowards!
What is this, Bahadir Bey?
Will you rebel against me too?
Will you stab me too?
I heard that your son and your alps...
stood up to our frontier bey and drew their swords on him.
You sacrificed two alps in your fury.
Still, you come before me and think that I will surrender my oba to you.
Alas, you are wrong.
Just wait till our Ertuğrul Bey makes his decision,
then we will decide what to do together.
We decided to hold a feast with the beys.
-Why does Ertuğrul meddle in our feast? -He is not just a frontier bey.
Ertuğrul Bey has defended our oba's honor and given many a life for it.
Do not make us choose between the two of you.
You will lose.
It will be as our Ertuğrul Bey has said.
Those who don't like my decision may leave my marquee.
This feast will be held sooner or later.
My oba will settle here.
I will become the bey of all the Cavdars.
You cannot deprive me of my oba by coercing with Ertuğrul.
Now, those beys who trust me, follow me.
The rest, what a shame...
May I come in, mother?
Come in, my son. Come in.
Mother.
The apple of my eye.
My son, the lion of great mountains.
Forgive me, mother.
I haven't been able to tend to you since I returned.
I'd die for a single hair on your head.
Son, you are our only safeguard.
Just you lead us.
You came back, that's enough for me.
What are these, Mother?
Yours, Dündar's...
your brothers' first caps.
I sewed them with my own hands.
Your brothers left us.
You sent Dündar away.
My heart is in pieces.
I look at these and love you as if all of you were here.
Mother...
Dündar is naive.
He needs to mature.
I did what was necessary.
He will learn that there is a price for beyhood and the things he did.
I want Dündar to see his mistake, Mother.
When I believe he has, I will call him back to the oba.
And when he is back, I will give him an important mission...
to show me that he is ready.
You are right, son.
May God watch over you.
Come, Marya.
My lord.
You haven't slept for days.
I fear your rage might hurt you.
What if you rested a little?
Ertuğrul is back, Marya.
There will be no sleep for me.
I will not rest until I kill Ertuğrul.
That wretched man again. Everything is his doing.
My brother died because of him.
A man that...
goes dark at night and bright in day is unpredictable.
I have to be cautious at all times, Marya.
I will not rest until I kill Ertuğrul with his own sword. Understand?
Nobody can harm you so long as you stay strong, my lord.
Even Ertuğrul.
Let our enemies fear you.
What is it?
My lord, we found two dead soldiers in the fort.
What?
Who killed them?
We don't know, my lord. We found no trace.
What do you mean, you don't know, you idiot? What good are you?
Search every corner of the fort! Find who did this!
Nobody sleeps until you do! Now get out!
Yes, my lord.
My lord...
Ertuğrul...
What if he knows that I was the one who set him up?
What if he's playing me?
Door.
Now that Ertuğrul is back at his oba...
our sultan will soon call me back to Konya.
We cannot leave these lands unattended.
Tomorrow we go to Ares first thing.
Yes, Eminence.
Ertuğrul Bey has sent word to oba beys about the feast tomorrow at Hanlı Market.
It's clear he will get their backing and seek revenge.
We need to keep our end tight.
Ertuğrul will figure out this set up one way or the other.
Then he will occupy the fort with the order of our sultan.
We cannot let him have this prize.
He will figure everything out once he learns it was Ares who set him up.
Both Ekaterina...
and you.
It's crooked.
I put so much effort into it...
but it's still crooked.
A crooked arrow won't find its target.
So, I shouldn't work on it.
I worked hard to pull Ertuğrul my way.
But he always went in his own direction.
He always stood in the way of my goal.
Alas, from now on I will do whatever it takes...
collaborate with whoever I need to so that he may not.
Even if I leave this land...
I will break his arms and wings.
That's what happened, Halime.
I finally made it back...
by evading human traffickers and the ambushes of the inglorious.
I came to you.
Oh, the things you've gone through, Ertuğrul!
How did you put up with all that?
I took refuge in God and thought of my cause...
my oba, my sons and you, Halime.
It's God's will.
I have life left to further our cause, see our children grow...
and grow old with you.
May God give you a long life, Ertuğrul.
May he not leave us without you.
We saw what would happen in your absence.
It is all over now.
I am at the head of our oba...
and with you and our children.
I will hold a great feast tomorrow at the Hanlı Market in honor of my return.
All the beys in the vicinity will come.
I want you and my mother to be there. May it be a feast worthy of us.
Let both our friends and our foes see that we are one and in prosperity.
-Turgut, take precautions. -Alps! Surround him.
Who the hell are you?
Show your face. Else I'll cut you with my sword.
Speak, who are you?
As-Salaam-Alaikum, Ertuğrul Bey.
Wa-Alaikum-Salaam, Atsız.
Who is this Atsız, my bey?
What is this?
I have important news for you.
I caught one of the men who ambushed us.
He has things to tell you.
Where is he?
Come with me.
Come on alps, after him.
Who is this, Artuk Bey?
It's clear he came in the nick of time, Turgut Alp.
Subtitle translation by Yurdakul Gündoğdu