Ali Pasha - A Turkish Delight (AFRTS)

Good evening. This is crime classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime Listen Ali Pasha on his way to visit his mother Sunday afternoon, and he always visited his mother on Sunday afternoon. It was a thing she could count on The mother has always wanted a place of her own

Where she could get away from it all secluded Ollie gave it to her. The deepest dungeon in Turkey. Hello, mother. Tonight, in my report to you on Ollie Pashaab, a Turkish delight. Crime classics, the series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time.

Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland, gonna serve crime, student of violence, and teller of murders. Now once again, Thomas Hyland. There were herons in those days, and pheasas, and veils, and simitars, and slaughter.

Albania's chief imports from her Turkish masters. At war in 1750, the Ottoman Empire was still powerful and bled her vassals, left Albania bleak and starving, and a wild country is scourged with marauding bandit tribes.

It was terror and theft and pillage and flame, and a child's mute staring of death image. Hallee at the age of nine. A childlike reaction to the murder of his father. A silent comment upon the raid of the horseman of the Kishuram tribe.

My child, my child. Mother, a new widow whose name was Kamko. My child, be there in the corner. Your brother and your sister huddled in islands and weak, having found sleep to shield them from pain.

weak and coward. Though there is but you and I, then listen. This night the Kisura came down from the hills and killed your father and burned all there was to burn. So that now we live in a cave. Your father was weak without the strength to fight them off. The wealth of a man is his, only so long as he is strong enough to keep it,