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One of Istanbul residents’ favorite green spots, the Belgrad Forest northeast of the city, was–or so the story goes–burned down by Sultan Mahmut II in the late 1820s to flush out escaped members of the mutinous Janissary corps. But not all of the old Ottoman rulers were so blithe about the effects of destroying nature. Seventy years later, Sultan Abdülhamit II sent aid money to the United States to help victims of a forest fire–a debt that is just now being repaid….
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