Merve Boluğur

“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way,she adjusted her sail.”

anon requested: hurrem sultan + favourite dress

I just wanted you to fall for me Like I fell for you

“The moon split in half and the stars crumbled,falling like fireworks into the sea.I watched my world fall apart,the day my love left me”-Christy Ann Martine

Every year of my life, I jumped through circles of fire.I died and I was resurrected each time ­stronger than before. More powerful.My head held high, I became the fire itself.The price to pay for power is great, I learned. Dagger, poison and betrayal and the weight of many years are turning into a sickness and is taking over my body.I, the unbeatable Hurrem Sultan. I am the Zümrüd­ü Anka (Phoenix). I am dying for the last time.

anonymous asked: mihrimah sultan or huricihan sultan?

“I’ve been wondering,did you have anything to do with Gaoyang’s death?”

In 1612 the Venetian ambassador Simon Contarini described Kösem as a woman of “beauty and shrewdness, and futhermore… of many talents, she sings excellently, whence she continues to be extremely well loved  by the king…. Not that she is respected by all, but she is listened to in some matters and is the favorite of the king, who wants her beside him continually….” -Leslie P. Peirce The Imperial Harem:Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire

anon requested: kosems green dress from episodes 27 and 28

“This is the place where everything started but it won’t end here,this is not an ending.I will always remain alive in your heart and in the faces of our children.” 

fatma’s yellow dress from episode 120

anon requested: meleksima sultan + favourite costumes

anon requested: same costumes in mc and mck

episode 25

insp

This is Hurrem Sultan’s crown, from now on you shall wear it.