Foundation to Repair Bridges.

They were on the Mostar bridge, which was inaugurated with a historical ceremony… Everyone was emotional and excited… He was applauding, too, his country, Turkey, which had rebuilt the bridge… And history was passing before his eyes like a film strip…

It was like yesterday… Bosnian Muslims watched with tears the fact that the bridge was buried in the Neretva river with the Croats' cannonballs on November 9, 1993… Finally, the foundations of the bridge were strengthened with Turkey's involvement in the issue, then the white limestones spilled into the river were saved as much as possible by divers. new ones were brought from the quarries and the bridge was built in the same way as the old one.

He would return to Turkey after the opening. A Bosnian elder from the crowd watching the ceremony approached him. He said:

Happy for you and us. You continue the tradition of foundations established by your ancestors.

-My uncle, what foundation, "Highways" had this repair done…

The old man shrugged. He took a piece of paper from his pocket. On the paper written in Ottoman Turkish; There was talk of a foundation established in Skopje in 1514 by the late Mustafa Pasha. It was written that this foundation built mosques, schools, soup kitchens, bridges in and around Skopje, and met the needs of those in need. The old Bosnian conveyed the last sentence of the notes on the paper to the Turkish engineer:

-One of the most important tasks of the foundation was the repair of the bridge it had built over the Perdule Stream in Mostar. That's why I asked. Is this foundation still alive? This means that Turkey now has highways. Thanks to him…