Sedat Cakir

Follow the footsteps of the Sultan!!! We are currently working hard to develop a new European, historical long distance walking path, the Sultan Trail, running from Vienna to Istanbul. Süleyman Kanuni, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, made the trip from Istanbul to Vienna for the first time in 1529, and then again in 1532. Both times the Sultan and his court did not succeed in penetrating the city of Vienna. At the spot outside Vienna where the sultan put his tents the Habsburg Emperor built a pleasure castle. That is why the historic Sultan Trail begins at the edge of Vienna. The path ends at the tomb of the Sultan, behind the Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul. In the summer of 2009 a number of people tested the Sultan Trail. Sedat Cakir walked from Vienna through Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria to the Turkish border. In Bulgaria he walked with Kyra Kuitert and from Edirne (Turkey) seven friends joined in. At this moment two people are marking the Turkish part of the trail.