The Code of the Piri Reis Map interview
Mr.Metin Soylu Writer – Researcher The Code of the Piri Reis Map interview

SPECIAL INTERVIEW

THE PIRI REIS PROJECT

Piri Reis, who created a stir in the scientific world with his mysterious world map he drew in 1513,  is on thea genda again after 500 years. The year 2013 has been proclaimed the Year of Piri Reis by UNESCO (United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture), so we asked the code of the ancient map of 500 years  to Metin Soylu who has been studying the map of Piri Reis since 1998 and who is known as the author of the book "The Code Map of Piri Reis. " Soylu, revealing a great truth about the world map of Piri Reis drawn five centuries ago, says that "The whole world should know that the Piri Reis map was drawn with the technique of photography taken from space."
 

- How did the research of Piri Reis start?
Metin Soylu: Everything started in 1997 with a magazine that a friend of mine brought to class with him while I was a student at the "Ankara Batikent Mobil Lisesi”. The article in this magazine was very interesting: “The secret of the Piri Reis map can not be resolved!”.  The article dealing with the life and the unjust execution of Piri Reis also contained the details of the map drawn by Piri Reis in 1513. This article also had the Piri Reis map. I found the topic very interesting.  I started researching on Piri Reis, first in the school library, then in every library I went.

Here is what I found out  about this map.: This world mapwas  drawn in 1513, but it was fragmented. When it was discovered in the Topkapi Palace on 9 November, 1929 there were bread crumbs and food on the map. Obviously, someone had dined on the map. In today's language, it was used as a "tablecloth". When Halil Ethem, who was director of the Museum at the time, communicated the news to the Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the same week, the map was brought to the presence of Atatürk..
Thus, doing research every day on the Piri Reis map interested me most, the only thought in my mind was to investigate this matter, to create a project out of it …

There were almost 3 months left to graduate from high school in 1998. One day I went to the history teacher and said I wanted to do research that I named the "Project of Piri Reis". I told him that I had found the clues that would allow me to complete the fragmented world map of Piri Reis. I asked him whether the school administration would support my project.
The history teacher told me that it would be best to write a letter of request to the principal. which I did. The school administration gave importance to the subject, but we could not find a spare room owing to the physical conditions of the school, this was the only problem.  There was also the issue of time, I would have graduated in 3 months.  For that reason, our director told me to go to the Ministry of Education  by saying: “It will be better to refer to the Ministry of Culture or the Ministry of Education. At least, after graduation, if they give you the opportunity, you can continue your research in more reliable conditions”.  In a short time, I decided to offer this project to the Ministry of Education. With the support of Hikmet Uluðbay, who was the Minister of Education  at the time, I officially started the "The Piri Reis Project". 

--We know that you have completed the world map of Piri Reis for the first time in history with the principle of induction. How did you do it?
Metin Soylu: Due to the results of my research on the detailed map of Piri Reis, who had been fragmented to date by purchasing a copy of the original map (size: 90x65cm) I started my project. I must admit in all honesty that I completed the map only after eight and a half months.  Completing the fragmented Piri Reis map thanks to the principle of induction, I found myself with a series of amazing facts. I found a mathematical calculation based on five round shapes, two adults and three children who are in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on the map. According to this calculation: There are 44 degrees between the two big shapes and  between two round shapes a large and the other small; there are 22.5 degrees from center to center 22,5 x16=360  degrees (He also found the circumference of the world!)

On 14 October 1999, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I sent to NASA The  World Map of Piri Reis of 36 square meters that I had completed.

 
- What were the other truths that have been revealed by Piri Reis' map ?
Metin Soylu: The main results are the following:
World map by U.S. Air Force azimuthal equidistant projection center, Cairo has been identified as the central. And Admiral Piri Reis, in 1517 in Egypt shipment of Yavuz Sultan Selim, leading the ships, went to Cairo and drew the map of the sources of the Nile River. The argument on which we should concentrate, is the truth that Piri Reis, drawing, also showed the Pyramids of Egypt in its map. This indicates that Piri Reis drew his world map leading to the Pyramids of Egypt as a central and too many centuries ago, had chosen Cairo as did the U.S. Air Force. Because in 1517 he participated in the expedition to Egypt, and had done research on the Pyramids in Cairo.  This truth can be understood from the map drawn by him in Cairo. If you look carefully at the map of Cairo, at the top right, you can see the design of the famous pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mikerinos.

the exact center of the Piri Reis map that I completed,  indicates CAIRO

- There is an interesting discovery in his book titled "The Code Map of Piri Reis.  You say that that this work Piri Reis had drawn in 1513 is not a map.  So, if it is not a map, what does this drawing mean?
Metin Soylu: One of the most amazing events that I met after completing the map, was "reaching the truth" that the work known as the "Map of Piri Reis" is not a map, indeed, it is almost a photo. It is known that a map is the method to show on a two-dimensional plane with the lines detail apparently the earth top view of reducing to a certain extent. Geographically, we need some features so that you can nominate as a map.  These characteristics are the following:
 

I. Being in a reduction of scale,
II. Having  bird’s eye view (Full hill view)
III. Being transferred to a plane,
IV.Containing  geographical elements to display.
Argentina is displayed vertically in the maps of the world transmitted to a plane.

However, if you look carefully at the map transferred to the plane, you can see the Argentina which is located in the southern part of South America, extends vertically.  The reason for this is that the map is transferred to the plane. So, to have a map function, necessarily must be transferred to the plane. Let's look at the following images of the Earth taken from space:

In satellite photographs taken from space, due to the rotation the Earth has a continuous process. However, while the Earth moves in which we live, as a result, they turn even continents.   If we look at Argentina in the line of South America, we can see that Argentina is curved to the right, it means; it turns. 

Now let's look to the map drawn by Piri Reis in 1513; perhaps to the photo. If you look on line to Argentina in South America on the map drawn by Piri Reis,  you witness the fact that Argentina is curved to the right. Thus the picture in which Argentina is curved to the right, is completely equal to the satellite photographs taken from space.

So, as I said before, if these are the photographs taken from space, also the fact that being curved in the Piri Reis map is a snapshot? How did he know; Admiral Piri Reis this truth being Argentina curved, which can be perceived only in space? 

Starting from these truths in Piri Reis' map, it is concluded that this design can not be a map, it is designed with the technique of taking pictures from space.

 In photographs taken from space, the Strait of Gibraltar is shown on the next page. However, looking in detail the appearance of the Strait of Gibraltar, being correct of this image is a detail only by including pictures taken from space. We need to look from a bird’s eye for both the depth of the Strait, and the narrow passage between the two parts.  If we look at the "Map of Piri Reis" we can achieve interesting results.  The two photographs of the Strait of Gibraltar  taken from space and the Strait of Gibraltar on the Map of Piri Reis are identical.Do you think the knowledge of Piri Reis of these details was a coincidence ?

Over the centuries, the existence of the Antarctic ice-covered mountains, was discovered by American and Russian marine researchers in 1820 by  using crews that reflect the voice.  These glacial mountains, existed in Map of Piri Reis who had not  travelled round the world. So, how can it be explained, this detail? In those ages  had any galleon (wooden ship) been able to reach the mountains of ice?(look at: The Code of the Piri Reis Map page: 115)

As is known, the maps of the world transmitted to the plan, there is a fusion between the continents between Argentina and the Mountains of Antarctica because between two extremes lies the ocean. However, due to the results of studies carried out by Russian researchers, it is  identified that two extremes of Argentina and the sharp and steep mountains under the sea of Antarctic are joined. (look at: The Code of the Piri Reis Map page:116-118)

In fact, it is very difficult to identify this fact, which can be seen only by removing the water ball. If you look again at the map of Piri Reis, we see the same truth. This fact is surprising that the admiral Piri Reis was able to remove the water ball.  How can you explain the fact that combine estremite of Argentina and Antarctica, that  Piri Reis knew without technology?

I wish all the people in the world knew these facts  discovered  on the Map of Piri Reis. For that reason, I can accept all proposals of the conference both in Turkey and abroad.  Also thank you for this valuable interview.

The mystery that Piri Reis who was one of the symbol names of the one of the symbol names of Turkish and International maritime history left behind  is being dissolved. This book is a product of seven years of study of the author on the map of Admiral Piri Reis whostarted with a map known all over the world. The author disclosed a fact  that   surprised even  academic circles. Metin Soylu’s research  of the Piri Reis Map  began many years ago as a hobby,  which then turned  into an adventure that reached the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then the NASA (National Institute for Space activities and Aeronautical). In this adventure, the relevant facts are initiated with the completion of the first fragmented map of Piri Reis and the consequences have surprised even the author.

This book offers interesting knowledge for readers to discover the mysteries of fascinating historical works and for those who dare to look at the world from an unusual perspective. Why was Piri Reis, who was the author of 'The Book of the Sea' and designer of the World Map and who had achieved a number of successes in  maritime, was sentenced to death  at the age of  over 80 after having successfully served the Ottoman Empire? What had Admiral Piri Reis  tried to find  in Egypt,  which he referred to as the Centre in his map? How did he draw his map? What was the relationship between his map and the Prophet Suleiman? Where had he hidden his treasure mentioned in his books? Was it Christopher Columbus who had explored America? Researcher-Specialist Metin Soylu, pursues the answers to these questions. Those who are curious about the life of Piri Reis will not be able to put down this book, they will be able to read about his life full of success, mysteries, explorations and adventure that was engraved with the name "Turkish" in the maritime world.