Batı Trakya Müslüman Türk azınlığında Seyyid Ali Sultan dergâhının yeri, önemi ve kurban faaliyetleri

Seyyid Ali Sultan, one of the leading patriarchs the Bektashi Sufi movement, played an important role in the Turkification and Islamization of Western Thrace and, more broadly, the Balkans. The Lodge/Tekke he founded between the villages of Ruşenler and Babalar, near Dimetoka, within the borders of Western Thrace today, constitutes a very important example of the historical-cultural heritage of the Balkans and especially the Turks of Western Thrace. This lodge in Dimetoka, founded and settled by Seyyid Ali Sultan and where Balım Sultan grew up, is the most important Bektashi center in the Balkans. In the Bektashi tradition, Seyyid Ali Sultan became the watchman of the Greek province, the owner of the cook's hide, which is the second of twelve hides. While the Dergah/lodge was one of the most important faith, culture and education centers of the region during its time, it maintains the same structural existence today. Seyyid Ali Sultan lodge is far beyond being an ordinary lodge, it has the characteristics of a social complex and spreads over a wide area. In the social complex; There are tombs, squares, soup kitchens, schools, fountains, pasha mansions, cemeteries, mosques, butcheries and warehouses. Seyyid Ali Sultan and his friends established educational and cultural institutions with the aim of ensuring the continuity of Turkish-Islamic culture and helped raise scientists in many fields. The raised men of knowledge, wisdom and heart lie in these lands. To commemorate these saints, the silent heroes of the glorious Turkish history, ceremonies are held on their anniversaries and sacrifices are made as a debt of gratitude. It is possible to list these sacrifices as follows: Kırk Kurbanı, Mursal Kurbanı, Ali Baba Kurbanı in Kamberler village.