Following Erdogan’s gift of a personalized revolver to Polish President Nawrocki in Ankara during the NATO summit, Nawrocki presented the Turkish president with a sabre in New York.

Someone make an Erdogan reaction image quick !

Nawrocki can now safely challenge Erdogan in a dual. He himself has a revolver while Erdogan has a sabre….

And the winged hussards departed!

Back in the 1700s, Poland and Ottoman Turkey realized they had a huge common problem: the rapid expansion of the Russian Empire. While the two had clashed as rivals in earlier centuries, they suddenly needed each other to survive Russia’s growing power.

In 1768, a group of Polish nobles decided to fight back against Russian interference. When Russian troops chased these fighters across the Ottoman border, Sultan Mustafa III declared war on Russia to support Poland.

Even though the Ottomans lost that war and Russia teamed up with Austria and Prussia to wipe Poland off the map through three separate partitions, Ottoman Turkey never accepted Poland’s disappearance.

For more than a century, the Ottoman imperial court kept up a diplomatic protest, consistently treating Poland as an occupied nation rather than an erased one.

By the 1800s, this diplomatic stance turned into real teamwork against Russia. Thousands of Polish exiles fled their homeland to keep the resistance alive, and Istanbul quickly became one of their most important bases.

When revolutions shook Europe in 1848, the Ottoman Sultan again sheltered Polish and Hungarian rebels, boldly refusing to hand them over even when Russia threatened war. The Ottomans even granted the exiles land outside Istanbul to build their own community, a village called Adampol (known today as Polonezköy).

The bond between the two nations grew so strong that it inspired a famous Polish legend known as the Vistula prophecy (often tied to the folk seer Wernyhora), which claimed Poland would finally break free from foreign rule when a Turkish soldier watered his horse in Warsaw’s Vistula River.

These nationalist/autocratic guys always gift each other weapons, it’s weird

Saber is way better than a revolver. It’s an artpiece by itself.

Could’ve gifted him a set of wings

Erodgan didnt even finish highschool btw. He is not a oresident he is a mafia boss