Aynalıkavak Kasrı Duvar Yazılarına Yansıyan Osmanlıİran Rekabeti
Ottoman - Iranian Rivalry Reflected at the Wall Incriptions of Aynalıkavak Palace

Summary/Abstract: Aynalıkavak Palace is a small but unique building remaining from the Imperial Dockyard Palace complex by the Golden Horn of Istanbul. Together with its wast garden, today it is affiliated with the National Palaces organization. Ottoman inscriptions adorning the garden gate, entrance door and interiors of the palace are of great importance with its classical architecture. Here classical Ottoman architectural style, living its last days, is meeting with classical Ottoman poetry and art of calligraphy. This work, based on this meeting, focuses on the historical rivalry between Ottoman and Safavid dynasties observed in the poems inscripted on the walls of Aynalıkavak Palace. At the first section we try to make a historical analyses over the time and palace itself. At the second section, the intensive religious, political and cultural rivalry between Ottoman and Iranian dynasties is taken into consideration. At the third section, reflections of this rivalry on the poetry scripted on the entrance and interior walls of Aynalıkavak Palace are studied. At the last section originals of the aforementioned poems and our tranlated versions of those verses into modern Turkish are presented.

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