Polish Turkish friendship

Turkey has never recognized the partitions of Poland

Next to Switzerland, the Ottoman Empire is the only country that has not officially recognized the disappearance of the First Polish Republic from the world map. How much sentiment for a respected opponent and how much political calculation (Austria and Russia have been competing with the High Port for centuries for hegemony in the region), it is difficult to say.

Anyway, the legend says that during the partitions at the sultan's court stood an empty chair waiting for the Polish ambassador, and at the annual presentations of diplomats, courtiers always repeated: "The Member of Lechistan has not yet arrived." "Interesting was the storage of keys to the Polish embassy in the Sultan Treasury. Shortly after regaining independence in 1918, the sultan handed over the keys to the Poles. "
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Do you know that we have enriched our language through the Turkish nation
The seventeenth-century military struggles of both nations did not prevent mutual cultural influences: Persian, Arabic and Turkish words transmitted through the Turks are still present in our language.

Directly from the language of our then enemies, Polish entered, among others the words pasha, bey, horde, mace, burqa, quiver, steed, lancer, tabun, pack, hubcap. But as it turns out, we also owe the Turkish influence to the terms commonly used today, such as "petticoat", "cabbage" or "bull".

https://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stosunki_polsko-tureckie#Wsp%C3%B3%C5%82praca_na_najwy%C5%BCszych_szczeblach_politycznych
https://tr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonya-T%C3%BCrkiye_ili%C5%9Fkileri
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland%E2%80%93Turkey_relations