Gül Baba was a Bektashi dervish who died in Buda in 1541, shortly after the Ottoman conquest of the city, and whose tomb on Rose Hill became one of the northernmost Islamic pilgrimage sites in Europe. The site was meticulously restored through a joint Hungarian-Turkish agreement signed in 2018, reopening in 2019 — a diplomatic gesture that gave this issue its immediate political occasion.
Gül Baba was a Bektashi dervish who died in Buda in 1541, shortly after the Ottoman conquest of the city, and whose tomb on Rose Hill became one of the northernmost Islamic pilgrimage sites in Europe. The site was meticulously restored through a joint Hungarian-Turkish agreement signed in 2018, reopening in 2019 — a diplomatic gesture that gave this issue its immediate political occasion.