The milkman is a true story

 Milk seller and French colonizer

Milk seller statue in Türkiye

The story of this statue immortalized in history

After the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate, France entered the state (Kahramanmaraş) in southern Turkey, and all Turkish women were wearing the veil at that time..

The ruling French general saw Turkish women wearing veils and told them: Your caliphate has gone, and now you are under French rule, so take off the veil..The women refused to take off the veil..

So he extended his hand to remove the veil from a woman, and there was a Turkish man near him selling milk, his name: Imam Sutjo (meaning sut: milk, Sutju meaning: seller of milk) and behold, the milk seller (imam) was taken by the Muslim’s diet and his jealousy towards women, so he took the gun from the general’s belt and killed him with it..

After this incident, a massive revolution arose that led to the expulsion of the French enemy and the liberation of the city of Kahramanmaraş.

Later, a statue named (Imam Sotjo, liberator of Maraş Province) was erected, in which the image of a veiled woman appeared, the general holding the veil, and the hero, the imam, who killed him with a pistol.. The story of the hero, the imam, became taught in schools..

There is now a Turkish university called (Imam Sotjo)

As well as many endowments and charities bear his name.