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Lehistan Stories
Six centuries of Polish–Turkish friendship, one story at a time, in about a minute.
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Episode 1The envoy from Lehistan
Episode 2Kulczycki and coffee
Episode 3The sultan's invitation
Episode 4Gifts for the king
Episode 5Wojciech Bobowski, or Ali Ufki- Coming soonEpisode 6Meniński's dictionary
About the series
Short films that retell stories from six centuries of Polish–Turkish history, told in TURKPOL's own words with every fact checked independently. English voice-over, with Polish and Turkish subtitles.
Credits and rights
The stories draw on Za co Polacy kochają Turcję / Polonyalılar Türkiye'yi neden sever by Marzanna Pomorska and Maciej Kwaśniewski (2023). The book is its authors' work: we tell the stories in our own words, check every fact independently and reproduce none of its text or pages.
Historical paintings are in the public domain. Each is credited with its artist, collection and source.
Scenes marked "Illustration" are AI-generated and show no real people. The voice-over and the music were produced with AI tools.
The films and texts are © TURKPOL, shared under the Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 licence: you may share and adapt them for non-commercial purposes, crediting "TURKPOL, Lehistan Stories" with a link to this page.
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0 · For any other use, write to info@turkpol.org.pl.