""...but there was no sound." "Not even a slightest hum was heard." "The machine was escaping one's attention for it was working so quietly."" "'Penal Colony' F. Kafka." "Tell us!" "I will." "I'll tell what ever there is to tell." "But let me warn you for a start." "This is a dirty story." "Don't listen to it, if you can't stand..." "Sit back, relax, keep your butts comfy..." "Officer..." "Please..." "I cant stand this kind of dark places for more than five minutes..." "Man, why are you pushing?" "I'm going in nicely..." "It really doesn't show what's behind." "Sit down." "It changed here..." "I know, I saw these type of mirrors in the movies..." "Mirrors and stuff." "So we really became the Little America..." "You left me all alone here..." "They electrocuted me in this building, years ago." "From here." "So there is no electric anymore..." "Only this psychological stuff..." "You mean there's not even simple beating?" "Somebody talk to me, please..." "Give me a raki then to make it complete, I left my drink back home..." "Please, I'm a married man." "I've got two kids." "I've got a decent life." "What did I do?" "Why did you bring me here?" "Yes." "Yes." "Oh, you're here in the end..." "Ask me and I'll tell you..." "Tell us..." "Tell us..." "What should I tell?" "I'm just a mother." "Everybody loves and respects mothers." "Do you know what motherhood is?" "Saliha..." "Saliha is a mother for everybody in our neighborhood." "Those good old neighborhoods are things of the past..." "Yes, she's nice." "Nobody knows his neighbor these days..." "She's very motherly." "But our neighborhood is different." "Our neighborhood..." "Our neighborhood is like an untouched island in the middle of Ýstanbul." "Very nice people." "Everybody likes me." "And I like them." "Regular, happy people..." "They all come to my photo shop, at least once." "I take wedding photos, circumcision photos, school photos." "I know them." "They know me." "I keep the negatives in boxes in drawers all their negatives..." "I've got my hands on everybody's face..." "Peace and quiet reigns in our neighborhood." "Everybody minds his own business." "Riffraff can't survive here..." "We don't let them." "I have no business with riffraff." "I mind my own business." "What am I doing here?" "Ask me what you want." "I'll tell you and go." "Murder?" "What murder?" "I know no Spike." "Spike?" "What spike?" "Yes I know Spike and the stuff around her..." "But I don't know." "Born to be wild." "Oh yes, I know..." "Born to be wild." "Spike, poor girl has gone..." "You mean that dirty rag of a girl?" "Son, don't our policemen have more important jobs?" "Did you bring me here because of her?" "What have I got to do with her death?" "A drifter..." "A stray dog..." "So what if she's dead?" "Types like her are keep dying on the streets like bugs everyday..." "I was awake when the body was found." "The street below my shop..." "I heard the noises." "Siren of the ambulance." "Yes I found her body first..." "They called her Spike." "I was going to the morning prayer." "What should I see..." "A body lying there naked stark..." "God, please don't ask me the details..." "She's been beaten really bad." "Her face looked like minced meat..." "Raped then beaten like that..." "First I couldn't figure it ouf from a far, then I went closer then..." "Then they smashed her head with a rock..." "Excuse me..." "I've been sick..." "too dirty to go to the mosque." "Yes yes, she had a necklace..." "Necklace, sir?" "In the shape of the star..." "I've seen no necklace..." "You know the star of you know like Jews..." "I found the girl and called the police..." "I have no further report..." "God forbid..." "Did you bring me here to talk to me like a killer?" "I can't have anything to do with this murder." "I can't stand even the slaughtering of animals..." "Yes my father is a butcher..." "We're well known in the neighborhood..." "Just stop anybody on our street and say Tunc." "And he'll tell you what a strict nationalist, jolly good youth I myself am..." "Tunc?" "He's the right vulgar, trouble maker..." "Is he here too?" "Everybody loves each other in our neighborhood." "Certainly there are odd balls." "If there's trouble, Tunc must have something to do with it." "He might be in a murder case, or robbery." "Once he was caught of theft..." "It's justa lie..." "He stole a car..." "I just borrowed Riza's car." "He's a brother to me." "There was a girl you see, we wanted to drive around." "He goes wild when drunk, He stole the guy's car." "I just asked nicely, I was kind of tipsy..." "He rode into the rocks by the sea..." "When I hit the car, Riza got angry and claimed that I stole it." "Then I was in jail for a month." "Still, he's a dear brother to me." "He's hopeless." "He grew up without a mother's care." "But who wants to have a murderer as a neighbor?" "This murder can't be a man's job." "Why are you questioning everybody?" "What was so big about that girl?" "The murderer can't be an ordinary man..." "Every murderer is an ordinary man before he kills somebody..." "I remember some mugging, wife beating, some petty robbery..." "That's all..." "Ours is such a peaceful neighborhood." "We did have a peaceful life..." "Like the surface of still water..." "Tunc?" "A killer?" "Sir!" "Please, let me put it properly..." "Ok, Spike is dead." "Or got killed." "But do I have anything to do with it?" "Was she really worth all this fuss?" "Tunc had no reason to kill Spike." "Man, she was from a well off family." "She went mad, drugs and stuff, and escaped home..." "Or some other story like that..." "None of my business." "And she's a Jew." "Who knows that she's Jewish?" "She had a necklace in the shape of that star you know, they have it on top of the synagogue gate." "I take one or two tourist girls back home sometime." "Some of them wear crosses." "And I met one with a star like that." "Those necklaces are everywhere." "A dollar each." "One can't be Jewish just wearing a cheap necklace." "Poor Jew..." "God forgive her sins..." "She slept on the street around the old synagogue." "Who would took her poor life?" "She wasn't Jewish type, sir." "She could be Greek." "Gypsy, she could be, maybe a Russian hooker, excuse my language." "Jewish or not." "I don't know." "I didn't ask." "I did saw her necklace." "Tunc can be so small." "He can fancy even that filthy rat of a girl." "Once she took off her top." "Sitting there top half naked." "Boobs for show." "And the star in the middle." "When he's drunk he might do anything." "I mean yes, she's dirty, she's mad, she's Spike..." "Maybe he abused her..." "Tunc?" "The butcher's boy?" "No." "I mean he's a tough nut, but murder..." "No, he can't..." "Tough?" "Who says that?" "We're good fellows..." "Ask anybody.." "Say, Tunc..." "Say Kaya, go ask." "Kaya?" "If one guy says a bad thing, come and beat me." "Yes." "Kaya..." "Nice guy." "Yes we are tough." "We can be tough in places." "But in other places, we can be like cotton wool we can be full of tendemess..." "Funny..." "Friendly." "Football player." "Kaya and Tunc are best friends." "Kaya?" "He's not here." "Why do you ask?" "Kaya is my best friend." "Surely my soul mate." "But he's kind of crazy..." "He just gets lost..." "Then even I don't know where he is..." "I don't know." "And I don't ask where he is." "Kaya is my son." "My one and only." "OK, he disappeared last week." "I didn't see him since then." "I got his picture here." "Look, my baby, such a handsome boy." "For God's sake." "How should I know where the hell he is." "He's like an angel." "Quiet, clever." "But he didn't come for a week." "I guess he went to see his fiance." "That's love..." "Young love." "Kaya?" "I didn't see him." "For a year..." "Devil..." "He was going to get married with a distant relative's daughter." "A nice girl, true believer." "She loved Kaya." "I've never seen such a pervert." "God saved me, we didn't go further." "Kaya loved herr too." "But it didn't work." "Then something happened to Kaya..." "Apparently he's been seen around her house..." "He didn't deserve me." "He was possessed by demons..." "God help him." "I told you." "It's been a week since I last saw him." "He's not here for a week or so." "Kaya's here." "I don't know son!" "If not with his fiance..." "I don't know where he is." "I saw him yesterday." "He just passed by my shop." "Like a ghost." "He didn't even look at me." "Kaya?" "Fuck!" "Little rascal, little rascal Did you forget your needle?" "You went down to the cellar Messed everything up" "You gobbled up the cream Threw its empty pot" "Mummy do I ever lie I know what I'm not allowed" "But the cellar was left open And my tummy was rumbling" "I just touched the cream pot Just with a touch..." "This girl appeared all of a sudden." "We didn't know who she was or where she comes from." "She had the figure of an angel." "She sang a song all the time." "once I tried to listen to it, it sounded like German but it wasn't." "She was beautiful." "Very beautiful." "You don't know." "Clever girl, she was." "I am, stupid mad, she was cleverly mad." "Yes, she was rather a beauty." "A mad girl's beauty." "So what?" "None of my business." "I know where to go to see chicks." "Some hookers in the brothel are ready to sleep with me for free." "There are tourists..." "Japanese, black, I fucked them all..." "But her hair her hair was like a hedgehog..." "So they called her Spike." "Rumors that, Kaya gave her nick-name to Spike." "Spike, somehow liked him a lot." "Many times I saw Kaya giving her things, water, beer, cigarettes..." "How can a person gives up everything?" "How did she lived like that?" "I don't know." "She didn't tell me." "We talked about other things." "Planes, trains, journeys, foreign countries, what not..." "How did she come here, where from, I didn't ask." "It's been a couple of months." "She found our street." "Creature." "She rolled around all day." "Our American gave her shelter in his hut." "Sure an old dog, but still, American is a manly man too, he's still hot..." "She spoke English with me." "Not badly." "But not her mother tongue." "And I didn't want to ask who she was." "Nobody knew who she was..." "She died and her secret will remain a secret." "She wasn't of this world." "She was haunted." "She was uncanny." "She slept with our American, God only knows who else..." "Dirtbag." "No sir." "No, me.." "I didn't touch her." "She spoke English." "I talked." "She listened." "And she drank..." "A lot." "I drank one, she drank three." "I mean just chats and booze." "No dirty stuff." "She was a good girl." "Yes, she looked like out of this world." "Or maybe a fallen angel." "Once I saw her speaking English to our American." "Yes." "They call me American in the neighborhood." "American?" "American?" "American is like a part of the decoration of our streets." "He knows everybody and everybody knows him." "No man, he's pure Turkish." "His nick name is American." "Real name is Nurullah or Hayrullah or something..." "Make American talk." "Maybe he did away with the girl." "He's another nutcase." "American..." "He's called American, because he's been to America, lived there for years..." "I did go." "Yes." "Then he came back, or he had to come back went a bit mad." "Like all of us." "Yes, yes." "People think he's got some powers." "They go and talk to him about all their troubles." "They give him food." "Yes yes..." "Once I saw him talking to tourists." "He really talked like foreign movies." "But he's mad." "God gave him language but took his mind away." "I do any job." "Been a cleaner, builder, porter... all." "I've been in America for 13 years." "New York..." "Frisco..." "Some while Utah..." "Then my mum got ill." "There was nobody to look ofter her." "I got back." "We knew his mother." "Decent woman she was." "She destroyed herself worrying about her son in America." "Then he came back but he only caught her in her death bed." "She just passed away." "One night I went into her room, she was stone cold." "Our American speaks terrific English." "He even taught it to his dogs." "He says, come Tom, come here, and the doggy goes." "American lives in a hut." "He built it himself." "Of tin, cardboard..." "A hole this big." "Otherwise, he's homeless." "I sold all the houses." "He sold everything, Houses, shop..." "God only knows what he did with the money." "Homeless." "Poor mad thing." "He's not dirty at all." "Very tidy man." "They say he's harmless." "But I never let him near myself." "Who knows..." "American was such a stunning guy." "Really good looking." "He looked after himself." "He had a motorbike." "Dressed well." "I saw a Levi's jean tor the first time on him." "He wore it like a model." "Then, when he went mad he just let it go." "I say American, teach us some English." "Then he teaches word by word." "For instance, the word fuck." "It's such a useful word." "Say, you want to make friends with a tourist girl." "First you go, "Can we be friends?" or "Are you done, do you need a friend?"..." "She looks at you and jabbers something." "Then you should add, "Do you want to fuck?"" "I mean it means." "You know..." "Now some of them start laughing at this." "Then the rest is your job." "You should make her laugh and talk a bit more..." "But for instance, some of them are really useless, they just stare at you." "Then the mighty word is useful here too." "You say, fuck you, fuck fuck fuck." "I'm bored here." "Have a fag?" "I'm not here to blame anybody..." "I'm not here to blame anybody but.." "Just the night before they found the girl that night, I was passing by American's house..." "I mean his hut yes by his hut..." "American was sobbing like mad..." "Ýt wasn't sobbing, it was like..." "Howling..." "He cried howling..." "I just wondered..." "Peeped inside his hut..." "American, with his hands covered in blood his hands covered in blood..." "He was sitting done." "Sitting, crying like mad." "I was alone..." "I was alone..." "I just ran away..." "I ran away." "I don't know if this is related to Spike's death..." "If you ask me if our American is related to poor Spike's death, I don't say nothing," "I don't call American a killer." "He's just a harmless tramp, I don't call him a killer." "I do." "He's a killer?" "I mean, he might be." "He can't fool me with his innocent looks." "This country is full of killers." "God knows whaf Re does after the night fall." "There are human killers, but there are other killers too." "Animal killers." "My poor little Tom." "I found it on the street." "A ball of black fur." "It was d she." "But I couldn't see it and called her Tom." "She listened to me carefully." "I used to make bone soup and share half of it with her." "She went and made babies with street dogs and I looked after them too." "I went to have a drink with Tunc, I was coming back." "That night I had a drink with my friend Firuz." "I saw American on the way back home." "That night, Spike didn't come back." "Tom didn't come either." "I went out to search..." "Found her by the highway." "Why the hell did you go there you silly girl!" "She was hit by a car." "She was lying there." "Her tongue dangling out in blood." "She recognized me." "She looked at me like this." "That night, Firuz and I went to Cemal's Kebab Restaurant." "A fish restaurant." "The owner is Greek." "We drank there." "I buried her with bare hands." "My hands were covered in blood." "Came back home." "Her little ones came to say hello." "Your mother Tom is dead, you little faggots I said." "You're orphans." "One of them started crying." "Then I couldn't help to..." "Have you ever seen a dog that likes apples?" "Tom did." "I'm not lying." "Ask Firuz." "Ask Tunc." "I'm telling the truth," "I stole just once, for Tom." "I stole apples." "Good job if American's the killer." "We got rid of that filthy girl." "Walks around naked..." "It's a sin to say that but she's better dead." "As for the American, take him to prison, or the madhouse." "We need clean neighborhood." "Beat the shit out of him and see how he talks." "There was another murder before Spike." "I haven't heard anything like this for years..." "About 15 years ago..." "Our neighbor Kamil shot a drummer..." "Don't remind me those things." "Breaks my heart." "I was small." "I faintly remember." "Nothing is like what it seems." "A river of hot lava runs under this dusty, dirty streets." "I thought of this after the drummer incident." "We all saw what kind of a hell it is, this place we're living." "Poor drummer got wasted for nothing." "Drummer..." "Ramadan drummer." "In a Ramadan night, Kamil suddenly went mad." "He was a good guy." "His wife made him mad." "I mean my dad used to say so." "A woman makes a man'what he is." "Kamil wasn't lucky." "His wife was a light hearted one." "Now, Kamil is drinking on his balcony, in a hot Ramadan night." "He was a real drinker." "He liked his raki, but he was a proper drinker." "He would say he quits the bottle during Ramadan." "But that night he was drunk again." "He wouldn't get drunk even after a long drinking night." "Anyway, he's drinking on the balcony." "Then the Ramadan drummer passes by to wake the fasting people up." "I saw him." "He was drinking." "The drummer was passing by." "So was I." "His bad luck." "The drummer stops at the corner and goes on banging." "Kamil listens to him for a while, then he shouts, stop banging that drum." "He never talked badly." "The drummer was calling his death- he shouts back at Kamil." "This is my job etc." "Kamil holds a gun in his hand." "He points it to the drummer." "The guy looks blank." "Kamil just pulls the trigger." "He pulled the trigger." "He kills the guy right there." "He wasn't afraid of anybody." "If only the poor drummer could know..." "Kamil had shot his wife and two kids on the head." "There are 3 bodies lying in the living room." "And he's about to shoot himself." "If it wasn't for the drummer, he's going to put the gun here and, boom." "Sure, he doesn't want to go with banging noises..." "It's a sin, yes, but he killed himself too." "No drummer would walk around here since then..." "The drummer left his noise like a black cloud casting over our neighborhood." "Some nights, we still hear his drum." "I mean, I do." "3 innocent bodies were taken out of the house..." "I cried so much..." "We tried to cover the kids' eyes..." "That day, I saw dead bodies for the first time." "It was horrible." "But Kaya looked at them secretly." "Then he had nightmares for months." "That wife of Kamil..." "That whore all is her fault." "It's all dirty gossip, things they say about Kamil's wife." "I was partner for a hairdresser." "She came to that shop couple of times." "Poor woman, didn't care about her looks." "Really shy..." "Kamil, was a drunk." "Gambler." "Womanizer." "He really wasted her." "He was a great guy..." "Not very talkative." "Nobody new why he did what he did..." "So, he gambled on his house and all his money, and lost them." "One night, long before the drummer incident, he told his story to American." "I was sitting by the mosque on the steps..." "Kamil came..." "He sat by me." "He was drunk?" "He cried..." "He said he was finished..." "Sob sob sob." "I said fuck off man, I hate gambling and gamblers..." "Our neighborhood is so peaceful in the daytime..." "I look out of my window, oh, so quiet..." "Who is doing aim this horrible things, where are they coming from?" "I can't understand..." "The inhabitants of our neighborhood, are very inhibited." "They only mind their own business." "But some of them are real fun." "For instance, Salim... which Salim?" "The book seller?" "That was in the old days..." "I did have a book shop once." "Now it's only a stationery." "Only school books in there." "Out of mind, out of sight." "Dirty old communist..." "Salim is leftist..." "An old lefty..." "I don't know my right from my left..." "What leftist?" "My big brother and Salim had a knife fight." "My brother is a good nationalist." "He's in Germany now." "Salim is a nice man too, though leftist..." "He is fun." "Being lefty or rightie is an old fashioned thing anyway..." "We're all Turkish in the end." "Oh, Salim was an attractive guy as well." "Unshaven; green military raincoat..." "All the girls of the neighborhood were dying for him." "Who?" "Our Salim?" "He was a slob like this even when he was young." "Who was to like him?" "He wasn't handsome." "He was short but god gave him a gift of speech..." "He had a fierce, hypnotic way of talking." "His shop is the nest of evil He used to poison the youth of the neighborhood." "After he got out of the prison, he's poisoning himself." "He drinks what ever he gets." "I drink a bit too much." "And I have no alibi for it." "I drink on purpose." "If he wasn't stuck in this shabby place, he could have been.." "...a writer maybe..." "Or maybe an adventurer, a journalist..." "He reads a lot..." "Sure, when the books are in your own shop, you can read a lot." "Can I read?" "No." "Do you know how expensive is a book?" "5 Million, 10 Million." "One book for a football match ticket..." "What should I do but drink?" "He drinks so much..." "I recently bought a a video camera... shoot everybody on the street." "The other morning I went to Salim's shop." "I said, "Shall I shoot you on video"?" ""What for," he said." "I said, "For the future." "What future," he says..." "What future!" "I still shot some." "Then when I was leaving I said have a nice day, he says, good evening." "Look, he mixes even his times..." "I can't get out..." "I know it's not healthy." "But I can't stand outside." "He became a part of that shop." "He sits there with old boxes of all kind of pens, erasers, notebooks." "Everything is dusty." "On the upper shelves, there are things untouched for years." "There is a fat little statue of a thinking Chinese man, on top of his table." "Salim sits there gazing at the Chinese." "Thinks." "What does he think?" "He made a mistake when he was young." "What?" "We will change this system." "How my brother?" "Our flag will be up, our prayer will be heard." "This country belongs to us." "Wheh you're young, you don't know who is behind this whole horror, who owns this country?" "This is our country you feel free." "You walk around freely." "You must love your country." "I saw your murders but did I do anything?" "I couldn't." "Love or leave!" "I have no place else to go." "So I just don't go out of my shop." "It's enough to watch everything from a far." "I understand this is your world." "If you want it that much, have it all." "Ten years ago, or maybe more..." "Salim's shop was our nook." "I mean we were stuck in this neighborhood but he was full of stories, having seen Anatolia, studied in university, got prisoned..." "We used to meet in his shop, he would talk and talk..." "Kaya was going to Salim's shop, I got it when I saw him bringing a novel home." "Dos... tos... ki..." "A Russian guy's book." "Thick as a brick." "It's title, God forbid, "The Possessed"." "I put it in the bin." "You are not to go to that shop again." "What are you doing with possessed Russian pimps?" "Still, he went secretly." "That Salim's cunning talk cart convince anybody." "Anyway, later on Kaya got rid of him." "I used to have chats with the youngsters of the neighborhood." "I don't anymore." "I don't talk to anybody last 3-4 years." "Kaya, my love." "He was such a shy boy." "When guests came home, he would just sit beside me, silently." "They used to ask, Kaya how are you, he would just say, "I'm fine" and look down." "Then he went crazy." "The youngsters." "They change so quickly..." "Kaya was such a quiet kid was into reading." "They all became nightmares." "Sorry?" "Like how?" "Yes we have some kind of an authority over people." "But, we're good guys, we're not thugs..." "They turned into thugs." "If you had looked at them when 15-16, you'd have thought there was hope." "But bad parents, bad brothers they gotwasted..." "I said to Kaya, don't be friends with that Tunc." "His dad, butcher, god forbid, gets some kind of turn on even bashing the meat." "Alcoholic." "He beats the shit out of Tunc." "My dad didn't smack me once." "God is my witness, I saw him banging the kids head on the wall..." "But in our house there was the Ottoman thing..." "After ali that beating, the kid became a simpleton." "Discipline..." "No beating." "But a very strict, ottoman discipline." "I didn't hit my son once." "But I told him, look Kaya, you're clever, you'll go to better schools, ...this Tunc is not your par, stop seeing him." "He didn't listen." "Kaya once told me:" "I'll escape from this house." "Or I'll bum it down." "So we escaped together." "We went to our summer house." "Stayed 3 days and got back." "His mum was going loony." "She has heart condition." "She shouts at Kaya like this:" ""You'll be a mother-killer."" "Love of your children is something." "After every mischief, Kaya came back home, kissed me and said sorry." "My prayers are with him..." "Kaya is younger than me, but I was lazy, he was the hard worker, so we finishep the high scholl same year." "Then we entered the university exams." "We're just wandering around." "If I can't get into a school, there's no place to go but my dad's shop." "Kaya doesn't even have that." "Talking about the shop, I loathed meat at that age." "Anyways, all summer we went around, cinemas, beer drinking." "And our first experience you know with hookers." "Than my exam results arrived, I had failed." "His results didn't come." "Came a week later." "But that week, oh boy, he went all mad." "We went to the same hooker again." "She told me, I mean I went in after him, she said, "Is your friend a pervert?"" "I said "What the hell do you mean?"" "She said, he had put his head on her tits and sobbed." "I said, "No way, he's only stressed up"." "The hooker said, "All our men are stressed up, ...MI do it free if I see one without stress."" "Then Kaya's results came..." "He had failed, too." "I wanted him to study." "It didn't happen." "What could I do?" "Tunc and he became really mischievous." "I stopped giving his pocket money." "Still, no use." "Because he grew up without a dad." "After his father passed away, I became both a dad and a mum for him." "A lonely woman." "Is it my fault?" "Kaya's dad didn't die." "He escaped from home." "Yes there's a sad thing like that." "Kaya's mum, how should I put it, a nasty woman." "Her man couldn't stand her." "Escaped." "Escaped or dead." "What is the difference?" "What was I supposed to tell my son?" "Your dad left us all alone?" "He's considered dead." "Kaya would hit it big time, if he could study." "All his teachers said, he'll make it." "Ask him, what is 64 times 355?" "He tells you on the spot." "He's that clever." "I begged Saliha." "I said, send this kid to school." "Everybody said, take care of this kid, don't waste him, but a lonely woman, There are limits..." "I was gonna help financially too..." "There are limits..." "Sure a very clever guy." "He would find mistakes in my accountants books." "Very lovable boy." "Not everyone is made to study." "They all love us, we love all." "We protect the little ones, we respect elders..." "Murderer?" "Kaya?" "Of who?" "Spike?" "What the hell are you on about?" "My son can be a bum but not a murderer." "I know, Kaya disappeared right after the murder." "You are right to suspect him." "But he's not a killer." "Oh god no." "Maybe I'm the killer..." "Spike's killers can't be from our neighborhood." "God knows where they came from." "Man, what are you saying." "People like us can't do that bloody execution." "We fear God." "There's one who has no fear of God." "He must be the killer." "Salim?" "He killed Spike?" "Make Salim talk!" "I am talking." "I'm telling you everything I know." "I was sitting in my shop that night." "On my usual spot." "I heard some shouting." "Looked out." "I saw Spike, running naked, she looked like gone crazy." "...Kaya came after her." "Tried to stop her." "She was laughing, giggling, didn't care of him." "Then I saw Firuz and Tunc." "Firuz had his.." "...camera in his hand." "Then the girl pisher Kaya and ran away." "Kaya ran after her." "Firuz and Tunc looked from a far, then they ran to the other direction." "That's all I've seen." "Ask it to Kaya, for the rest of it." "Mad communist dog." "He's trying to blame it on my son, to save himself." "Liar." "Dirty liar." "It's a horrible thing." "But true." "Tunc and Firuz are also involved." "Fuck him." "Are you gonna believe an atheist?" "I don't know why they were together, to do what?" "Salim is an alcoholic anyway." "Find Kaya,... ..he'll tell you all." "Kaya isn't around." "How can I know where Kaya is?" "My name is Kaya..." " Who?" " Who?" "Kaya..." "Kaya..." "Kaya... was here?" "Here?" "In this room?" "What did he tell you?" "I'll tell you all." "But don't know where to start." "I didn't kill Spike." "Certainly." "My son isn't a killer." "Salim killed Spike." "That night." "When Spike was... 6th of July." "You know." "ive been to a movie." "An American war movie." "Forgot its title." "Going back home, I was passing by Salim's shop." "Normally he sits by the window." "Always on the same spot." "At his desk." "That night I couldn't see him." "That worried me." "Then I heard some screaming." "From the shop." "I went to have a look." "Salim had undressed Spike, he was trying to hump on her." "How did he trap her like that?" "She was kicking away, Salim was smacking her." "Me?" "I've never seen him like that." "That lazy guy turned into a monster." "Is this really what Kaya said?" "Then she started really screaming." "Salim was trying to shut her up." "Then he grabbed hold of the Chinese fat man statue of thick stone bang bang bang banged on her face." "I couldn't count how many times." "I was all alone." "I was so scared." "I thought I was gonna faint." "She died." "Salim got up." "Looked at the girl." "Then he turned and saw me." "Stared at me." "I was shaking, I just ran away." "I called my friends." "I told them." "I said I'm scared of Salim." "Firuz said go and stay in my summer house." "I've gone there." "I couldn't call the police." "I was that scared." "Why should he be scared of Salim." "There's police force in this country." "How can I call the police." "I'm the only witness, who would believe me?" "There is one more witness." "Don'f believe me if you won't." "I saw the man I admired so much is a mere killer." "I saw the angel turn into a devil." "Did Salim talk?" "Did he confess?" "I'm not a killer." "I don't have another witness." "I have." "Who is that witness?" "I told you everything I saw." "I told you everything I know." "I told you everything I heard." "Nobody told anything." "It's not quite likely that Salim would rape and kill a mad, innocent gir!" "." "But a mad atheist can do anything." "Somebody is hiding a very important matter." "That's the real witness." "Who is that witness?" "Saliha." "Kaya's mother." "What was my mother doing there?" "Why didn't I see her?" "Saliha came to my shop that night." "Why should she go there." "Saliha came to my shop to ask for help." "Help?" "My mum wouldn't give a fuck to that man had some strange friends." "Leaves home and goes with them every now and then." "There is this Firuz." "Photographer." "Nice guy, good guy." "But how can I say." "Oh, please, I don't even want to hear I mean since he was young, he prefers men..." "Please officer, there are so many gossips about me." "Please, don't believe it." "And, he had a relationship with Kaya." "Saliha realized this." "Indecent, dirty man..." "Look what he says when I call him a clever guy." "He's mad." "Alcoholic..." "How can you believe him?" "...I can say he's a killer." "He's lying to save himself." "Only a killer can lie so blatantly." "Ask Saliha." "I did." "I went to Salim's shop that night." "Why?" "Why should she go there?" "Kaya didn't care my word." "But he liked Salim." "He listened to Salim." "Lie!" "He did what Salim said." "Kaya do this, Kaya do that." "Kaya don't do that." "Why?" "Why?" "Because blood..." "blood is all the same." "We were so young." "Me 18." "Saliha 17." "Tiny girl she was." "I had just finished the high school." "I was still a youngster." "I was ignorant." "Didn't know anything." "Nor did Salim." "But he was a beautiful boy." "He was so clever." "Her family forced her to marry." "She cried a lot." "There was a ruined building that we always met there's a car gallery in its place now, we met there..." "She said, let's go away together." "Snake eyes..." "Devil..." "He said there are bigger issues for him." "He said he was going to Ankara." "So he went to be a communist." "To destroy his life." "Bigger issues!" "They made me got married." "My husband was 42." "In property business." "I studied history in Ankara." "But we met one more time, one summer." "When he left, I realized that I was pregnant." "My husband didn't suspect anything." "I couldn't tell Kaya all these years either." "She wrote me couple of times..." "But youth carelessness." "I didn't believe it." "Who would believe this, man?" "I went to Salim." "I said Kaya is your responsibility, too." "He's going to destroy himself." "That night he had gone with Tunc to see Firuz again." "When we were talking, we heard some noises outside." "We looked out and saw Spike running towards us half naked followed by followed by Kaya..." "What was he doing with that disgusting creature?" "They just passed by..." "I tried to stop Saliha..." "I ran after them." "But they were gone..." "Empty streets..." "I walked around..." "I never went out that late in my life..." "I was wasted from crying." "Then as I was walking back home..." "I found Kaya." "At the doorsteps of a neighbor." "Got sick all over himself..." "He was crying, calling mummy, mummy..." "He was so scared..." "My dear mummy declared me a bastard and a killer, ha?" "They both are mad." "My dad died." "When I was little." "That's it." "Salim is making it up of his ass." "Simple truth is that I'm not a killer." "I'm not a killer." "I didn't kill anybody." "Kaya, Firuz, Tunc..." "This three, killed Spike." "American had a dream of it." "I haven't seen it." "But there's the device that I handed to you at the door." "What camera?" "This is it." "Firuz's camera." "Camera?" "Mine?" "I don't know any camera." "I told you." "It's been stolen." "I didn't steal it." "Firuz was lying on the ground." "I took it of his hand." "The camera was still working." "When I press a button, I saw terrific things." "Did Firuz give you this?" "Then, I'll tell you everything, from scratch." "Kaya never lies." "He's a good guy." "Never lies." "I just lied to you." "About Salim." "He didn't kill Spike." "I didn't kill her either." "Firuz, my friend photographer he has a studio on our street." "That night, when Spike was killed we drank in the basement of his studio..." "Tunc, and I." "No sir." "I went to a kebab restaurant with Firuz that night." "Kaya wasn't with us." "Kaya wasn't with us." "I went to a fish restaurant with Tunc." "We drank raki in Firuz's shop." "They both are lying." "Kaya's lying." "Why should I lie?" "I'll tell you why should he lie." "Please man, don't ask me the same things." "I'm a married man." "This are filthy gossips." "We weren't there just fo drink and eat..." "Everybody says something." "Firuz was giving us money." "What money?" "First he was paying me." "Good money." "He bought me dinners, presents..." "Once he took me to holiday." "We have this thing going on for 2-3 years." "Then, that night he asked to take Tunc as well." "Excuse me?" "What money?" "Why should I get paid?" "Why should I pay them for a friendly chat?" "Ours was a different kind of chat, you see." "God forbid." "Kaya and Firuz are my friends." "We're healthy men." "We have no other intention." "Yes, we are healthy men." "But should I say no to a friend who liked me?" "I make him happy in a manly way and I make a little pocket money." "What is bad about it?" "I have two kids." "Did I pay Kaya?" "You mean to... too..." "be with me..." "Did Kaya tell you all this shameful things?" "This has nothing to do with shame." "I can't believe it." "Firuz took'us below his shop is a basement he took us there." "We drank a little." "I told Tunc the situation." "First he got angry." "Then when he learned about the money, he said yes." "Then we heard Spike's song..." "She sings all the time." "Firuz said, let's bring her in." "She can sing to us." "Why is Kaya lying like this?" "Tunc went out to bring the girl in." "It's all lies..." "She was shy for a start." "But we made her drink." "Firuz was shooting us." "I was so drunk." "I mean all of us were..." "Then Tunc tried to climb on her." "She tried to kick him away but fell on top of me." "Tunc got angry." "He wanted to bum her tits with a fag..." "I'll kill Kaya." "When did he make up all these lies?" "Are we perverts?" "She escaped when she got hurt." "Half naked, she just pushed us and ran away." "I meant to catch her." "But I lost her." "I wanted to go back." "But I found Firuz lying unconscious on the ground." "His eyes were closed." "Like dead His hand was bloody." "Holding his belly." "I thought he was dead." "I thought Tunc did something awful." "I didn't touch Firuz." "I called Firuz Firuz, he didn't answer." "I got really scared." "I ran away." "I was so dizzy." "I got sick..." "My mother found me." "We didn't do anything bad." "Innocent fun." "Friendly." "Then when the girl ran away we were alone with Tunc..." "He got me wrong." "He tried to hug me." "I was only feeling dizzy." "No bad intention." "had a jack-knife." "I pulled it, swished it to wam him." "Then I left." "I haven't seen him since then." "Just a scratch." "Nothing to worry." "A scratch." "I fainted..." "But then I got up and walked home on my own..." "I treated it myself..." "I haven't seen Spike affer she escaped from us." "I read the news in the papers." "My mum had given me some money to go and hide somewhere." "Then I called Tunc." "I learned that Firuz wasn't dead." "I came back here." "I found Firuz." "He said, I was a murder suspect, because I disappeared." "Then I was caught." " I didn't kill anybody." " Tell us everything from the start." " What else can I tell you?" " Tell us how you killed Spike." " What else..." " Tell us." " Should I tell you a tale?" " Tell us." "I don't know any tale." "I know a nursery rhyme." "Little rascal, little rascal Did you forget your needle?" "You went down to the cellar Messed everything up" "You gobbled up the cream Threw its empty pot" "Mummy do I ever lie I know what I'm not allowed" "But the cellar was left open And my tummy was rumbling" "I just touched the cream pot Just with a touch..." "Name:" "Kaya." "Surnamc:" "Rahmanli" "Born in Ýstanbul, 1974." "Father:" "Mehmet." "Mother:" "Saliha." "Pm a high school graduate." "I'm unemployed." "I live on my mother's allowance." "I killed a homeless young woman we called Spike whose real identity was not certain, at 6th.7.2001 by crunching her head with a rock." "I didn't kill anybody..." "I didn't kill anybody..." "That night I and two friends of mine, Tunc and Firuz were drinking in Firuz's basement." "Firuz recently had bought a video." "He shot us on video." "I shot them too." "This tape has been shown to me later on." "My friend Tunc had brought three pills." "We dropped them." "Then we heard Spike singing down on the street." "Tunc went down and invited her." "She came in." "Drank with us." "Then we played music and made her dance." "We stripped her." "Tunc and I had sexual intercourse with her." "Then Spike got mad and escaped." "She went out naked." "I went after her." "I smacked her." "She screamed." "She bit me." "I was drunk and stoned." "I lost my control and hit her with a rock I found." "I hit her numerous times." "When she died I ran away." "I didn't know that Spike was pregnant when I killed her." "I confirm that the statement above is true." "Kaya Rahmanli." "Lie!" "Sign!" "Tell my mother I'm not a killer." "If only I could see Spike in time." "I would say, I love you." "You're so small, so dirty, you're so crazy but you're incredibly sweet." "Don't go out, I'd say, stay with me." "What are you doing with Kaya and guys like him?" "Maybe she would be alive now." "And I wouldn't be here." "...died for fuck all." "ÝIn one night, Tom was gone and Spike was gone." "I'll go away as well." "Away." "Get out!" "Get out!" "I had a dream last night." "I'm in our neighborhood." "It's very early in the morning" "I just jump up a little Bit, and then, oh, my feet is off the ground." "How easy..." "I'm flying." "I rise 5-10 meters off the ground." "But no, I stay there, hung up in the air." "If I utter one word, I'll fly." "An order, like "Go!" or "Fire!"." "One word and I'll fly away." "But no, I can't remember it." "I have a special drawer,..." "I keep Kaya's pictures in it." "Prints, negatives.." "His first passport size photo." "His circumcision photo." "I shot it in the studio." "Before he started to primary school." "I shot it." "High school, university photos." "Once he brought a girl, his first date I guess, I shot them, too." "He came with Tunc many times to get photos taken tor fun, dressed as arabs, with fez and stuff." "And we have some private photos together." "...can't be a killer." "Kaya was special." "I've never seen such a sensible, understanding boy in my life." "When he was out on the street, with Tunc and likes, he would act like them but when we were alone together..." "You don't know." "You'll laugh at me." "Laugh!" "I don't care." "If Kaya would say "Come on let's go and live somewhere else"" "I would go after him to the end of the world." "If I knew he'd love me, nothing would stop me, I'd go." "Kaya can't be a killer." "If you need someone to confess, I'll confess." "I'll tell you the whole story all over." "This is that kind of a story, it changes every time you tell." "I'll tell again and I'll be the killer." "Kaya can't be a killer." "I am one." "Get out!" "I've got a son." "What have you done to my son?" "What have you done to Kaya?" "What have you done to Kaya?" "Out!"