Ottoman muzzle-loading cannons line the famous "Skaters' Square" in Beşiktaş. There is a popular urban legend about these pieces of artillery, about how they are Mehmed the Conqueror's original cannons and are equipped with a certain "mystic technology" that can hit targets thousands of miles away.Of course, they are also zeroed straight on Athens, and will blast the enemy the moment a new Greco-Turkish conflict erupts. Unfortunately, Mehmed II was more than two centuries dead when these cannons were cast, and they are pointing towards Asia, but this doesn't seem to effect the rumors.
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