During the first days, I was very perplexed. After spending so much time within the walls of the Palace, it perplexed me to suddenly face life. I did not know what to do. I did not have money. However, a friend of mine owed me some money, to the tune of 700 kurus. I got it back, it was considered to be an instance of good fortune but it was difficult for someone who had spent 27 years inside the Palace (Hayat, 1957, p. 7).  
Regaining his freedom all of a sudden, he, who did not have any experience thereof, must have felt like a fish out of water. With the 700 kurus he had, he bought 40 Crimean cows and started a dairy farm. In this part of the interview, he says: 'Look at this weird destiny that my path has taken from the Palace to a hovel' (Hayat, 1957, p. 7). In his narrative, he does not talk about the