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Published : Jul 26, 2019, 5:46 PM IST
లోక్సభ సచివాలయం శుక్రవారం 'మొక్కలు నాటే కార్యక్రమం' నిర్వహించింది. ప్రధాని నరేంద్రమోదీ పార్లమెంటు ఆవరణలో మొక్కలు నాటారు. కేంద్రమంత్రులు రాజ్నాథ్సింగ్, అమిత్షా, కాంగ్రెస్ నేత అధిర్ రంజన్ చౌదరి ఈ కార్యక్రమంలో పాల్గొన్నారు.
లోక్సభ సచివాలయంలో 'మొక్కలు' నాటిన మోదీ
పార్లమెంటు ప్రాంగణంలో 'మొక్కలు' నాటిన మోదీ లోక్సభ సచివాలయం నిర్వహించిన 'మొక్కలు నాటే కార్యక్రమం'లో ప్రధాని నరేంద్రమోదీ పాల్గొన్నారు. ప్రధానితో పాటు కార్యక్రమంలో లోక్సభ స్పీకర్ ఓం బిర్లా, రక్షణమంత్రి రాజ్నాథ్ సింగ్, హోంమంత్రి అమిత్ షా, కాంగ్రెస్ లోక్సభా పక్షనేత అధిర్ రంజన్ చౌదరి పాల్గొన్నారు.
పార్లమెంటు ప్రాంగణంలో మోదీ సహా వీరంతా మొక్కలను నాటారు.
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పార్లమెంటు ప్రాంగణంలో 'మొక్కలు' నాటిన మోదీ లోక్సభ సచివాలయం నిర్వహించిన 'మొక్కలు నాటే కార్యక్రమం'లో ప్రధాని నరేంద్రమోదీ పాల్గొన్నారు. ప్రధానితో పాటు కార్యక్రమంలో లోక్సభ స్పీకర్ ఓం బిర్లా, రక్షణమంత్రి రాజ్నాథ్ సింగ్, హోంమంత్రి అమిత్ షా, కాంగ్రెస్ లోక్సభా పక్షనేత అధిర్ రంజన్ చౌదరి పాల్గొన్నారు.
పార్లమెంటు ప్రాంగణంలో మోదీ సహా వీరంతా మొక్కలను నాటారు.
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Kalfat - 25 July 2019
1. Various of Satilmis Karatekin, distant relative of Boris Johnson, looking at land and house belonging to Johnson's Turkish ancestors, in the village of Kalfat, in Cankiri province
2. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Satilmis Karatekin, distant relative of Johnson:
"Boris is my cousin. We want him to come here. In other words, we want him to visit his ancestral lands, to visit us and honour us."
3. Close of remains of an even older house built on the same land
4. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Satilmis Karatekin, distant relative of Johnson:
"The Sarioglangil family is my grandmother's family. They were known as the Alibeyogullari, but later they were dubbed the 'Sarioglangil' (the family of the blond boy). These homes belong to the Sarioglangil."
5. Various of the ancestral houses
6. Various of village administrator Bayram Tavukcu talking in his room
7. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Bayram Tavukcu, Village administrator:
"We were happy that Boris won. In fact, we all gathered here in front of the office of the mukhtar (village administrator). We held a celebration. Together with the citizens here, we clapped."
8. Mustafa Bal, former mayor
9. Various of Bal looking at pictures on his phone of himself with Johnson
10. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Mustafa Bal, former mayor:
"He had to say such things in the political arena, in order to make political gains. You know as well as us and all politicians know it as well. The people in his country know it too."
11. Bal showing his pictures with Johnson
12. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Mustafa Bal, former mayor:
"In order for our town to develop, we would like to benefit from these people. Under their leadership, we would like investments for our town. It would be worthwhile to benefit from such valuable people."
13. Local resident Adem Karaagac walking with Satilmis Karatekin
14. Various of Karaagac and Karatekin entering the village cemetery and praying besides a grave
15. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Adem Karaagac, local resident:
"For a person who came from these lands, whose base is from these lands, whose past is from these lands to be at the top of a playmaker country like Britain as the prime minister has led us to feel sentiments that we cannot describe. It has made us very happy."
16. Mid of Karaagac praying
17. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Adem Karaagac, villager:
"We would like Boris Johnson to visit his ancestral lands. We would be pleased and honoured to host him. We would like to offer him tarhana soup (soup made of dried yoghurt) which he would eat with a wooden spoon on our floor-table."
18. Various of sign at the entrance of the Kalfat village, reading (Turkish) "Welcome to Kalfat!"
19. Mosque
20. Wide of village
STORYLINE:
A village in central Turkey, to which Boris Johnson's Turkish ancestry can be traced, is abuzz with excitement and pride over the news that a man they see as one of their own has become prime minister of Britain.
Residents of the mainly farming village of Kalfat, in Cankiri province, some 100 kilometers (62.14 miles) north of the Turkish capital Ankara, gathered at its main assembly place on Tuesday to celebrate after Johnson won a Conservative Party leadership contest triggered by the resignation of Theresa May, according to the town's administrator, Bayram Tavukcu. Johnson took office as British prime minister on Wednesday.
Residents here dismiss as "political rhetoric" past comments by Johnson that were sometimes deemed to be anti-Muslim or anti-Turkish and said they hope that he will visit Kalfat as prime minister.
"For a person who came from these lands ... to be at the top of a playmaker country like Britain as the prime minister has led us to feel sentiments that we cannot describe," said Adem Karaagac, a resident of the village with a population of some 1,300.
Johnson's great great grandfather, Haci Ahmet Riza Efendi, (Efendi is an Ottoman title of respect) was born there in 1813 and the house he lived in is still standing.
The family members were known as the "Sarioglangiller" which roughly translates to "of the family of the blonde boy," though it was not known if Johnson inherited his blond hair from his Turkish ancestry.
Johnson is usually associated with the British upper middle class because of his family's wealth and his education at Eton and Oxford.
But he has been known to bring up his Turkish roots whenever challenged on his ability to understand the multiethnic and multicultural nature of modern Britain.
During a June 18 Conservative Party leadership debate, he defended himself against accusations of Islamaphobia by suggesting his "Muslim great grandfather" - who came to the UK in 1912 - would have been proud of Johnson becoming foreign secretary and seen it as a tribute to Turkey.
Johnson explored his Turkish roots in a 2008 episode of BBC genealogy programme "Who Do You Think You Are."
When he visited Turkey as foreign minister in 2016, Johnson told journalists that his family was from Kalfat.
At least six families currently residing at the village are distantly related to Haci Ahmet Riza Efendi, Karaagac said.
Satilmis Karatekin, a distant cousin, said the village would look forward to hosting Johnson in the near future.
Boris' father, Stanley Johnson, visited Kalfat about 10 years ago.
"Boris is my cousin," said Karatekin, whose great grandmother, Fidan Karatekin, was Haci Ahmet Riza Efendi's cousin. "We want him to visit his ancestral lands, to visit us and honour us."
Ahmet Riza Efendi's son - Johnson's great grandfather - was the Ottoman political journalist Ali Kemal who later became an interior minister. Considered pro-British and a "traitor" he was killed by a mob in 1922, during Turkey's war of independence.
Kemal's son, Osman Wilfred - Johnson's grandfather - was raised by his maternal grandmother, Margaret Johnson, in Britain after Kemal's Swiss-British wife died.
When Johnson visited Turkey in 2016, he was given a warm welcome despite basing his Brexit campaign on the possibility of Turkey joining the EU and millions of Turks entering Britain, and despite the fact that he had composed an offensive poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Erdogan was among the first leaders to congratulate Johnson this week and expressed hope the Turkish-British ties would flourish under his government.
Asked about Johnson's comments on Turkey during the Brexit campaign, Mustafa Bal, the former mayor of Kalfat said: "He had to say them for gains in the political arena."
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