We might never have been able to watch Atatürk’s speech on the 10th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. Behind this video is an extremely interesting event based on Soviet Union director Sergey Yutkevich.
The Republic of Turkey, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, with the great sacrifices of our ancestors. It was officially established on October 29, 1923. Our country, which was founded on the debris of the First World War and the War of Independence, started to make great strides under the leadership of Atatürk. Atatürk, who made many revolutions in a short time, brought Turkey prosperity within 10 years. When the 10th anniversary of young Turkey came, the legendary speech from our great leader that still makes us feel emotional came.
There is an interesting story behind the successful transfer of this speech, which we know as the 10th Anniversary Speech, to today. In fact, many things went wrong at that time, but an old technology saved this conversation. come on now Soviet director Sergey Yutkevich thanks to the legend that has survived to this day 10th Year Speech’s video Let’s look at his story.
The event that brought Atatürk’s 10th Anniversary Speech to the present day
Dates On October 29, 1933, a special celebration was planned for the 10th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. For this, guests from countries were invited. While the ministers of many countries and other statesmen are invited to these celebrations, The directors and journalists were also summoned so that the conversations could be recorded.
Along with many journalists and directors in other countries Sergey Yutkevich of the Soviet Union The film director named was also invited to the ceremony. Yotkevic, like his other colleagues, would film the speeches at the ceremony. Yutkevich entered the hippodrome where the ceremony would take place in the early hours of the morning. He placed his camera and pulled a cable to the podium where the speech would take place. He was embarrassed to do so, because the cable of his colleagues’ equipment was the size of a pinky finger, while the cable of the Soviet director was almost the size of a human wrist.
The people who were going to film the talk had lined up the equipment and connected the cables. Everything was ready now and they were waiting for Atatürk to enter the hippodrome and give a speech. Thousands of people waiting for Atatürk Our great leader entered the hippodrome with a car. Greeting the thousands of people waiting for him from inside the car, Atatürk then got out of the car and went to the podium and began to speak.
At this point, Yutkevic started recording with his camera and realized that his colleagues were in a hurry. The car that brought Atatürk to the racetrack passed over the camera cables and broke all the thin cables. There was only one cable that survived the weight of the car, and that was Yutkevich’s cable from the Soviet Union.
Atatürk made that historical speech that everyone knows by heart even today. Yutkevich, with his wrist-thick cable, was the only one who could record while our great leader was speaking. Here, we can watch Atatürk’s 10th Anniversary Speech thanks to that thick camera cable of Yutkevich, who came from the Soviet Union.