Ertugrul PTV grave Urdu | Saugat | Turkey | ارطغل غازی اور حلیمہ کی قبریں | English subtitles

Thanks to a popular Turkish television series beamed around the world, this once-forgotten town is experiencing a tourism boom.
Sogut is a quaint, nondescript town of 14,000 people. A three-hour drive from Istanbul, navigating snaking roads cutting through the plateaus of sunflower, wheat, hop and lettuce fields, the town is fast gaining traction on Turkey's tourism map.

Unlike the country's major tourist destinations Antalya, Bodrum, Cappadocia, Istanbul, Izmir, Konya, Trabzon and others, this picturesque little settlement of the midwest Bilecik province was never on the radar of foreign or local tourists until, as locals say, it was "resurrected" from a bygone era.

"Sogut was once the nucleus of the Ottoman Empire. It all started here. And, as the empire expanded, we got insulated, gradually. But now it's resurrected. The world knows about us, again," says Ibrahim Ayyildiz, a member of a Kayi tribe. He owns one of the only three hotels in Sogut.

The history of Turkey's predecessor state, the mighty Ottoman Empire, is deeply rooted in this humble rural setting.

It's here that Ertugrul (1188-1281) –– head of a nomad Kayi tribe and father of Osman, the Ottoman Empire's first sultan –– established his first principality in the 13th Century, sowing the seeds of an empire that would last for the next 600 years.

Like many other empires, the Ottoman realm dwindled and a new republic – Turkey – was born out of immense sacrifices made by the Turkish people between 1918 and 1923 in the liberation war against the Western allied forces.
"But on Turkey's tourism map, Sogut was nowhere until recently," Ayyildiz says.
Five years ago Sogut came under the spotlight as Turkish TV series Dirilis Ertugrul (Resurrection Erturgul) was aired across the country. The series, a TRT production, is largely inspired by the events that marked the beginning of the Ottoman Empire, taking the Turkish public by storm and leading the television ratings. In 2016, a website was inaugurated that introduced the show to international audiences. Netflix circulated it further to a wider global audience.
"Sogut got stuck in my head when I first watched its episodes on Netflix. That was last year, And, here I am today," says Zakir Muzaffaro, a visitor from Ukraine, outside the Ertugrul Gazi Museum located in the heart of the idyllic town.

Courtesy: @TRT World
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/sogut-the-first-ottoman-capital-resurrected-as-a-tourist-hot-spot-29963

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