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Ertuğrul star meets terminally ill Pakistani children

Anadolu Agency MAGAZINE
Published August 18,2020
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Turkey's leading actor Engin Altan Düzyatan on Tuesday met three terminally ill Pakistani children via video link.

The actor is best known for his role as Ertuğrul in the Turkish series Resurrection: Ertuğrul which became popular worldwide.

The event was arranged by Make-A-Wish Foundation in Pakistan's port city of Karachi. It was attended by the Turkish Consul General Tolga Ucak and prominent Pakistani actors.

The foundation grants one wish of children who are suffering from fatal diseases.

Fizza Khuda Baksh, 14, Sidra Khan, 15, and Sohail Umer,16, wanted to meet Düzyatan.

"I am very happy to meet these children and soon will visit Pakistan to meet with my Pakistani brothers and sisters," Düzyatan said while speaking with the children.

The Turkish television series based on the life and times of the 13th-century Muslim Oghuz Turk leader Ertuğrul, has taken Pakistan by storm after the country's state-run Pakistan Television (PTV) aired it in April this year.

"I saw your drama on PTV which is lovely and telling us the Islamic history and how our heroes fought for Islam," Umer told the actor.

Khuda Baksh said: "I wished to speak and meet you and today my dream was fulfilled by Make-A-Wish."

Düzyatan promised the children to visit Pakistan soon.

Often described as the Turkish Game of Thrones, the serial is woven around 13th century Anatolia and tells the story prior to the establishment of the Ottoman Empire. It illustrates the struggle of Ertuğrul Gazi, father of the empire's first leader.