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Welcome, men.
Thank you, Ertuğrul Bey.
We heard what happened, Ertuğrul Bey.
The scum called Dragos is our common enemy.
For this reason, be assured that we're ready to do whatever it takes.
Thank you.
Sooner or later,
we'll find and punish that wretch, have no doubt about that.
I have only one demand.
Do not act on your own.
If you see or hear something, tell me first.
Don't be so sure, Ertuğrul Bey. Don't be so sure.
Ertuğrul Bey, we wish to see the place where our tribe is to settle.
Where did you choose?
The pine forest.
There is also a small river nearby.
You can settle there whenever you wish.
I will go and see it shortly with my alps.
We'll begin preparations.
My brother is coming. We'll be ready as soon as he's here.
Safe journey. Farewell.
Thank you.
-Thank you, men. -Thank you, my Bey.
Come on, alps.
Sir...
the pressure is increasing in the bazaar.
They're searching everything. Ertuğrul's men are everywhere.
Ertuğrul and İlbilge are growing closer, Tara.
Ertuğrul could discover that I gave information to İlbilge.
If he does, he'll watch me constantly.
What do you want us to do, sir?
I'll do it myself.
If you want to finish your enemy, you must be close to him.
I'll stay closer to Ertuğrul from now on. I'll get him to trust me.
You're already so close to him that you can go anywhere you want in the inn.
How much closer can you get?
Close enough to enter his tent, Tara.
I'll befriend his children.
But I'll have to give him valuable intelligence first.
To this end, we must sacrifice some of our warriors.
We're ready to die for our holy cause, Commander Dragos.
I'll play such a game that...
they'll come to trust me unconditionally.
Dear believers, who come together on this holy Friday,
in this time of prayer.
Happy Friday to you all,
may holy Allah protect you from all harm.
Amen.
A person is forever being tested, from the moment they are born,
whenever they ride a horse,
until the day they are buried in the ground.
Holy Allah commands that,
"Every soul will taste death.
And We test you with evil and with good as trials.
And to Us you will be returned."
Dear believers,
the most important thing is who you side with during these tests and why.
If we devote ourselves to Allah's cause...
and if we take the verse, "The believers are but brothers"
as our guide...
and if we remain united, we can never be defeated.
Some will seek to strike at our deep-rooted friendship,
some will refuse to accept our union.
There will be those who will attack our brotherhood.
There will be those who try to cheat us and to pit us against one another.
But no matter what they do...
they will never destroy our brotherhood.
When we stand firm in the face of their artifice and scheming...
We'll say, do not be down-hearted, Allah is with us.
Just as our prophet said during the course of his precious life.
-Peace be upon him. -Peace be upon him.
Those who would not accept his prophecy
tormented the prophet and his believers in a thousand different ways.
Holy Allah let them migrate to a city of peace, to Medina,
so that they could live and practice their religion in peace.
Some of the believers migrated to Medina,
and soon afterwards, our prophet followed them there with Abu Bakr.
The pagans employed a guide to show them the way...
and set off to kill our prophet.
Our prophet hid in a cave with Abu Bakr.
The pagans approached the cave...
where Allah's most precious subject was hiding.
Abu Bakr felt a warm wind in his heart.
His hands tingled and he started to sweat.
He was shaking when he asked himself,
"What if they get in?
What if they catch our prophet? What if something happens to him?"
Our prophet, on seeing him like this,
told him not to be sad, and that Allah was with them.
The pagans did find the cave.
At the entrance,
a spider with very thin legs had weaved a shield-like web.
And a dove had made a nest between two branches in a nearby tree
and laid two eggs.
The pagans, seeing the undisturbed web,
presumed they couldn't be inside that particular cave and left it.
But all the while they were inside.
The guide was profoundly moved.
Who would dare do something against the one Allah protected?
That spider web was Allah's miracle, brothers.
Allah alone can weave that web.
Dear Muslims...
Allah is aware of the evildoing of tyrants.
He will never abandon those who take up his cause.
If we are vigilant against the plots of tyrants,
if we always strive to do our best,
Allah will help us.
He will put an end to their evil ways,
sooner or later.
Your horse is ready.
It's time to make Ertuğrul and his brothers pay, Yinal.
Indeed.
I hope your sword will be bloody when you next replace it in its sheath.
I wanted to see you one more time before you left. May Allah ease your journey.
I'll send the heads of Ertuğrul and his brothers to Konya.
You can be sure of that, Your Highness.
No, no... I have no doubt you will. I have no doubt.
But there's something else I need to tell you.
Tell me.
Batur Alp.
Soldiers!
What I wanted to tell you was...
I want to talk to you about your sister, İlbilge.
Say, "He is Allah, he is One."
He neither begets nor is born.
Nor is there to Him any equivalent.
Allah is great.
Allah hears those who praise him.
Allah is great.
Peace be upon you.
Greetings.
-Welcome. -Greetings.
-Did you like Söğüt? -I did. It's big and bountiful.
It certainly is.
Muslims, Christians, Greeks, Franks, we have all kinds here.
It's a great achievement to govern all these men and maintain peace.
I have witnessed the extent of Ertuğrul Bey's power and justice.
-I understand things better. -Very good.
Gündüz Bey!
-Gündüz Bey! -What is it?
-A trap! There's a trap, my Bey! -What trap?
İlbilge Hatun is going to be ambushed.
-By whom, bell ringer? -Merchants.
They hid their swords and followed İlbilge Hatun.
But I caught sight of their swords.
I was suspicious so came here to tell you. They're led by Niko and Teo.
Help her, my Bey! Help her!
So, they were the traitors.
Let's go quickly, Gündüz.
I'll go ahead with Süleyman, Çağrı. Alert the alps and follow us.
Come on, Süleyman.
Help her.
-Welcome, Turgut Bey. -Thank you.
Do you bring news from Ertuğrul Bey?
Ertuğrul Bey demands payment from you.
What do you mean, what payment?
For threatening the peace between us,
he will refuse to allow Lefke traders enter the Söğüt bazaar.
He will close all roads leading here.
However...
if you pay...
he promises it'll be like the good old days again.
What is the price, then?
Ten thousand gold coins.
This is nothing short of extortion, Turgut Bey.
My duty is only to tell you his decision.
The rest is up to Ertuğrul Bey.
What if we don't obey?
Then you'll be trapped here.
If you want to leave...
the head you refused to bow...
will be brought low by our swords.
Wait.
Tell Ertuğrul Bey to meet me at the river marking our border.
We'll meet and decide together.
You have our answer.
I'll await his response.
Door!
My brothers, Gündoğdu, Sungur Tekin and Dündar...
remain in the mountains with their alps.
They sent their women and children to us, to protect them from the Mongols.
I'm sure they stayed there to ensure we weren't threatened.
They were right to. If they came here,
the Mongols would swoop down and attack Söğüt like vultures.
We must do whatever we can.
We can't leave Oghuz men for dead.
I don't doubt that you'll make sacrifices to secure the safety of my brothers.
But there are other important matters we must deal with.
Sungur Tekin says in his letter...
that the Mongols intend to kill important people...
to break the Oghuz tribes' resistance.
Among those people are...
Sadreddin Konevî...
Ahi Evran, Tapduk Emre...
and Mevlânâ Celâleddîn-i Rûmî.
-We can't allow that. -It would be a catastrophe.
It would ruin our state.
It would ruin our people.
-This is terrible. -A calamity.
-We can't allow it. -We can't.
-Our state will be ruined. -It'd be a disaster.
We can't allow it.
We must stop this.
Our prophet said that...
Peace be upon him.
"Wise men illuminate the world.
If they die... the world dies with them."
We must ensure each one of them is protected, and quickly.
We'll do everything in our power to stop this.
We could never allow a massacre of such magnitude to take place.
-Never! -Never!
Our duty...
is to protect the whole Islamic world.
The sky will be our tent.
And I swear that...
we will gather the whole Islamic world together within that tent.
-We swear! -We swear!
Bandits!
It's an ambush.
Alps!
Attack!
Kill them all!
Did that lowlife Dragos send you?
So, you know who is responsible for your death.
Time to die, then.
Good. Just in time. Just in time!
We're here, İlbilge Hatun!
Süleyman!
İlbilge Hatun!
Süleyman! Süleyman!
Süleyman! Brother!
Süleyman! Süleyman!
İlbilge Hatun!
We know that a Turk called Albastı, a Mongol lapdog,
is behind the pressure on the Oghuz tribes.
He's probably behind this too.
I want you to know that I'll do everything I can to solve this.
What do you intend to do, Ertuğrul Bey?
My plan is to call all the beys, statesmen and other men
whose names were on the list, to do their duty and serve the state.
Let us united with Sultan Baybars
and start the first great rebellion against the Mongols.
-He's right. -He's right.
Such a rebellion will obviously turn into a great war.
In my opinion, it would be impossible for Sultan Baybars' army
to stay in Anatolia for any length of time,
even with the support of the majority of the Turkish tribes.
Our goal is to keep the land into which we were led by Sultan Alparslan.
I have a plan which I believe will leave the Mongol Khan Hulagu desperate,
and which will guarantee our victory.
Sultan Baybars will enter Anatolia
with his army by the Euphrates and Tigris
and advance up to Erzurum.
I believe we'll secure our first victory when he arrives.
But the Mongols will look to regroup and attack swiftly.
Hulagu Khan will come with an even bigger
and stronger army.
We will prevent him from ever facing us.
How? Is that possible?
We won't simply tell Sultan Baybars that we want an alliance.
We won't merely tell him that the Turkish tribes will support him.
We'll send an envoy to Berke Khan, ruler of the Golden Horde,
and offer him an alliance against
our greatest common enemy, the Mongols.
It is a wise strategy, Ertuğrul Bey.
We'll give you some of our best spies.
They have served everywhere,
from Egypt to the Golden Horde.
You can send them to Sultan Baybars
and Berke Khan as envoys
to offer them alliances.
-For Allah. -For Allah.
These alliances...
and the wars that will follow them, will last for years.
So, we must get to work right away.
I'll start by organizing the Turkish tribes in Anatolia.
May Allah help and protect us.
-Amen. -Amen.
Süleyman!
My word!
My word.
Beybolat.
Niko the Merchant.
You treacherous dog.
-Brother! -Sister, are you all right?
I won't kill you.
You'll tell me who Dragos is.
Tell me.
Who is Dragos? Tell me!
Tell me!
The dead can't speak.
-Who fired that arrow? -Alps!
Find out who fired that arrow!
Don't die. Don't die, you dog!
Talk to me first!
God damn it!
It was him.
The archer!
Çağrı!
Süleyman!
Çağrı! Çağrı, help!
The scoundrel obviously had it all planned.
Hurry up! Hurry up!
Süleyman!
Go on. Get the wounded to the tribe. We'll talk later.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to Söğüt. I want to see Ertuğrul Bey.
I'll ask him what happened while I was gone.
Brother, everything became clear. They weren't involved.
Keep out of this. I know what I'm going to say.
Süleyman! Brother! Süleyman!
Ertuğrul Bey is coming!
What news, my Bey?
We're going to launch the biggest ever rebellion against the Mongols in Anatolia.
How, my Bey?
We're going to establish an alliance
between Sultan Baybars and the Anatolian Turkish tribes.
Baybars, the Turkish Sultan in Egypt?
The only way we can stop the Mongols is if we act together.
Sultan Baybars knows that too.
We must prepare the Anatolian Turkish tribes for resistance.
It's time for us to take up those swords
which we have waited so long to wield in vengeance.
We've waited long enough, my Bey.
At last. It's time for war. It's time for death.
The banner of justice must destroy tyranny.
Everything will be done in secret from now on.
When all is ready, and only then,
will Anatolia experience the most destructive war it has ever known.
It's time to break the chains of slavery and gain our freedom.
There will be bloodshed.
There will be death.
But, God willing, the fire of Turkish freedom
will burn brightly above the sea of spilled blood.
For Allah!
Well said!
Allah is great!
-Allah is great! -Allah is great!
Allah is great! Allah is great! Allah is great!
-Süleyman! -Savcı, get a clean cloth.
Open your eyes, son.
Please open your eyes.
Artuk Bey, how is he? Say something.
His wound is not deep. But he has lost a lot of blood.
Don't worry, I'll stitch his wound up now.
-He should recover quickly. -I hope so.
My Süleyman.
Open your eyes, Son. Please open your eyes.
He's burning up.
Give it to me, Savcı.
Who is your enemy, İlbilge Hatun?
Who ambushed you?
-We have no enemies, Selcan Hatun. -Then, what is this?
You know who has been after us since we arrived in Söğüt.
Dragos did this.
Everyone knows that. Including Ertuğrul Bey.
Subtitle translation by Berk Meydanlı