Don't say a pillow with a poem on it is impossible. A room on the second floor of the Sivas Sultanate was reserved for Mustafa Kemal Pasha, who came to the city for the Sivas Congress. On the bed lay a floral-patterned silk cover taken from a young girl's dowry chest. When Mustafa Kemal read the two lines embroidered on the pillows, he called Mazhar Müfit Bey to his side. As Mazhar Müfit Bey, anxious and somewhat embarrassed, tried to explain that the couplet on the pillows was not written for him and that they had never intended such a thing, Mustafa Kemal said that an explanation was unnecessary and that the warning in the poem was true for everyone. During the days of the Sivas Congress, the first line of the poem written on the pillowcases Mustafa Kemal rested his head on was as follows: “Do not hurt anyone by boasting of your worldly position…”.

Sunay Akın embroiders each motif of Şiirli Yastık with care, love, and an unquenchable curiosity and passion for research. He conveys the unique medical flowers of Anatolia in its struggle for liberation, Nâzım, Orhan Veli, Deniz, Halet Çambel, and many more lives dedicated to humanity with their courage and resilience. With these discoveries, he becomes a source of hope for us.