"MUD" "Soldiers!" "Remember what Cyprus was like thirty years ago." "On this island, on Cyprus, there was no security of life or property." "You Turks lived under Greek threat." "There were massacres, uprooting, raping, and loss." "They said that when the Turkish army got here they wouldn't find any Turks alive to save." "The Turkish army came to the island." "And they made you a region where it is safe to live." "Now the Greeks live in the South, in their own region;" "and now the Turks live in peace in their own region in the North." "And it's been like this for thirty years." "With nobody getting hurt." "But, according to some news we got lately the Greeks are again building up their weapons." "This is why we must be ready." "Repeat now!" "We must be ready!" "Again!" "We must be ready!" "Again!" "We must be ready!" "Take him to the clinic." "What's your name?" "His name's Ali!" "What's your name?" "Ali!" "Would you be quiet?" "What's your name?" "Doctor, you've got a phone call." "They say it's important." "Tell them to call back later." "Dr. Ayse's in surgery." "Call back in half an hour." "Touch the amulet I brought, Doctor." "It's clean." "The embryos are in the uterus." "Your amulet worked, Oya." "This time the embryos are in the best place in the womb." "I brought your amulet. lt shouldn't stay with me." "You keep it. lt'll bring you luck." "Thanks." "Listen, I've got diabetes." "I might not be able to carry this baby to term." "I want you to keep my daughter's eggs." "I'm going to keep trying until I can give birth to my late daughter's baby." "We froze your daughter's eggs." "They're in a tank in the lab." "We usually freeze any extra embryos." "Thanks." "May Allah bless you." "What's wrong?" "Does it hurt?" "Let's go." "Your brother shouldn't go out in the sun." "That's one." "And two." "He shouldn't shout." "What about the itching?" "I'll write a prescription." "Some cream..." "Did he have a disease in the past, or something like that?" "War wounded." "Let me have a look." "We could get rid of this scar." "Thank you very much." "Thanks." "Hi ..." "What'sup ?" "Whatare you  doing here at this hour?" "Ali's not feeling very well." "What's wrong?" "Something's wrong with his throat." "I'm here to pick up a couple of medicines." "Hi Halil." "Hey Temel." "You OK?" "It's my intestines." "But I'm OK. I'm good." "I need you..." "Come to the restaurant tonight." "You can see your statue." "Before it goes to the Greek side." "Well, we'll come if you bake octopus in salt." "What do you say?" "Sure." "Tonight at seven." "OK." "We'll see you then Temel." "See you." "Hey, Mahir." "Get me some rock salt." "OK, Temel." "Ayse." "Thanks Temel." "Thanks." "Hey, Temel, where's Ali's statue?" "Inside." "Go and have a look." "Come on Halil." "Let's look at Ali's statue." "Come on, get up." "So, people who hate each are going to send each other statues." "Ali's statue is going to go into his old house and the Greeks are going to look at Ali's statue and they're going to think about Ali and then there's going to be peace!" "And this going to bring about peace between the Greeks and the Turks." "That's garbage." "Isn't it?" "Come on!" "Look Ali, this is you." "This is Ali." "This is your statue that will go to the Greek side tomorrow." "The statue will be set up in his old house." "The house he himself can't go to." "For political and social reasons." "If Ali could talk he might talk about this, but he can't so we are talking for him." "Ali play something for us." "Come on..." "Temel, you know this statue deal..." "it's crap..." "Look this can't do anything to get the Greeks and Turks together." "It's better than doing nothing..." "You're going to stir things up." "Look, I want to tell them where the graves are." "Over by the salt lake." "Temel, that's not going to do anybody any good." "Get your salt from somewhere else." "If going there gets you upset, then don't go." "Not to worry." "Halil, come here!" "Hey, what happened, Buddy?" "Ali, Ali." "I've killed." "Many people!" "It was August 18, 1974." "In the war." "For vengeance." "Greeks... becausetheywereGreeks." "Their graves are in the mudflats." "Never been dug up." "Nobody knows." "Ex cept those of us that did it." "Me, Temel and Husnu and Halil." "Left face!" "Disperse!" "Forward..." "March!" "Halt!" "At ease!" "Thank you!" "Wrong!" "Wrong!" "For God's sake!" "All wrong." "Take this." "Only gargle with this." "These are bad for you, understand?" "These'll knock you out..." "No walking in the sun!" "Tell them to give you night guard duty." "Right." "Stay in the shadows." "Got that?" "Take this." "Give it to your commander." "You've got only three weeks left." "Don't try to get a medical discharge!" "Don't make trouble for me!" "It's not worth it." "You'll be out of here before your discharge even comes through." "I'll give you rear duty." "No more border duty." "I'll send you out to the mudflats." "Just three weeks." "What's three weeks?" "And what are you going to do as a civilian?" "What're you doing, stupid?" "Away from the fence!" "It's forbidden." "OK!" "OK!" "You're driving me crazy!" "Get your mud from back there!" "No mud from here." "What's wrong if I just take a handful of mud?" "For the love of Allah!" "No mud!" "Listen to me and get out of here." "Now!" "No mud!" "Allah Allah!" "Commander, the maniac keeps asking for mud." "He asked so many times and we gave him some time and time again." "Soldier, Son!" "Soldier, Son!" "Would you give me some mud?" "Thanks." "May Allah bless you." "Thanks." "Go on." "The soldier'll give you some." "Would you give us a little mud, Soldier?" "Soldier!" "Would you give us a little mud?" "We will repeat this news item." "It was announced today that at noon today there was an ex change of fire at the green line separating the Greek and Turkish sides of Nicosia." "The bi lateral firing prevailed for approximately half of a minute killing one Turkish soldier." "Men!" "Up and out!" "Up and out!" "This place, the mud flats, it's being punished." "Some Turkish soldiers were killed here." "So, the Army decided to punish the mud." "When one of our artillery pieces got stuck in this mud, they couldn't turn the barrel." "So now, because of them, you've got it easy." "Everything is just fate, soldier." "Kismet!" "This is a lot quieter than the border." "Hey, what's going on?" "Forget it." "Let him turn off the light." "That'll be two injections a day." "Next week three times." "Have you ever passed out?" "Why are you doing your service at your age?" "I guess it's a long story, right?" "Bury this in the mud." "Over there!" "Or there!" "For you." "Bury it deep." "Today there was another ex change of fire between the Turks and Greeks near Güvercinlik Village at Famagusta and one Greek soldier lost his life." "Both sides protested this action to the United Nation peacekeeping forces in Cyprus." "This is the second infringement that has occurred recently along the Turkish Greek demarcation line during the decades long de facto ceasefire." "Hey, what happened to you?" "You going on a raid?" "God, my old buddy here is a real Rambo." "Come and get a look at Rambo." "What Rambo?" "Get a look at this!" "He's become Rambo." "Oh God, what's this all about?" "He's really flipped out now." "As nutty as a nut cake." "Hello, I've come to visit." "That way, Sir." "Hey, if you give me the statue, I'll take it to Ayse!" "This is a tremendous opportunity, Ayse." "Tremendous." "Hello, Ayse!" "How are you?" "I'm fine." "Hello Halil Hello." "I brought the statue." "Statue?" "The statue of this house's former owner." "He's going to visit his house again after twenty five years..." "Put it there." "Wait down below!" "All right Temel" "Here's the translation of what the Greek said." "I'm reading." "'I used to sit on the house's veranda and drink coffee." "It was cool there in the summer." "I don't know if my furniture is there or not, but I used to have a rocker couch." "I'd sit on it." "I haven't sat on it for thirty years." "Everybody's to blame for things turning out as bad as they have." "I am too." "Like, in 1963 I stole Turkish goods." "But does that make it right that I've been turned out of my homeland and never allowed to see my house again?" "This is really sad." "I'll watch it later." "We found a few pieces of furniture in the house." "We took these couches from another house." "I hid the photographs I found here." "When he ran away during the war, his photographs were left here." "Should I bring them?" "Yeah." "Right away." "But Ayse, let's not be late." "A book is going to come out of this project." "Write down everything that comes to your mind in this notebook." "Good and bad." "Hate, love!" "This and that!" "Everything!" "Just like we talked about, this doesn't just concern you." "Anybody that wants to see the statue can come in and see it." "Everybody that sees the statue and wants to write something can write in the notebook." "A poem, proverb, satire, article, memory!" "Everything, including curses!" "Then later we'll start with those writings!" "That's great." "The Greek is going to be happy." "How's Ali feeling?" "No change." "That's bad!" "Really bad." "Terrible in fact!" "The Greeks are asking for his video and the tape of him talking." "He still can't talk." "Hey, Ayse, come on now." "We're late." "Getting real late." "I got to find somebody else." "I'm lying to the Greeks, telling them that the Greek dubbing isn't done yet." "Talk to Ahmet." "Ahmet was there with Ali during the massacre." "I'll talk to Ahmet then." "Ok, we'll see you later." "You should have stayed a little longer." "See you." "Bye!" "Now all sorts of people are going to be in and out of this house." "Let me take the antique statue to my place, Ayse." "It's going to stay right here." "How can it stay here?" "This place is going to turn into a way station." "We can put it in the back room." "Lock it up." "No good, Ayse." "For the love of God." "Give up with this nonsense!" "I accepted money." "You can give it back." "No, I can't." "Why can't you?" "What would I say?" "Say, 'My fiancee doesn't want it.'" "No." "Or do you think this dumb idea is going to bring peace?" "Ayse?" "Let me tell you a few things about Temel." "Temel is sick, mentally sick!" "He can't even get near the salt lake." "He'll dump the statue in the water." "He's a drunk." "And why?" "Cause there're bodies buried in the mud, stuff like that." "Ayse, I don't want to lose any money because of this stupid idea of Temel's." "Just tell him we don't want that statue." "No." "Ayse do you want to sell this statue?" "Don't you want to?" "What makes you think it's worth any money?" "Don't argue with me." "Let's wait and see if Ali is going to want to sell it." "Because of this, Ali's going to have some money." "This is the statue!" "You interested?" "What would you say it's worth?" "If it's as good as it looks, I'd say something like between five and ten million dollars." "Great!" "Great!" "Hey Bon Appetit!" "There was a temple somewhere around here that dated to the antique age." "Some kind of health center." "A kind of clinic of the time." "The sick would come here." "To get cured." "When they came they would bring a casting of whatever part of them was causing trouble." "They would offer that sculpture to the nuns or whatever they were, at the temple." "Like, let's say my arm hurt." "If I gave a sculpture of my arm to the temple, then my arm would get better." "That's what they thought!" "The gods at the temple did the healing." "Women who wanted to get pregnant would come here too." "You know, they thought that..." "Anyway, so what's this got to do with us?" "Ali, we can find more statues here than you would have guessed." "Hey look at this." "Press here." "It'll show the money!" "You gotta learn all about this." "You'll do the searching." "There's all sorts of money here." "What're you writing Bro?" "Are you serious?" "What in the hell would your cast be good for?" "Forget about the cast and think about the goodies here." "All right then, tough guy." "Ali, why do you want this?" "God what kind of family am I marrying into?" "All right then Ahmed we know that you were shot by the Greeks during the war and that you only survived by sheer luck." "This will be difficult for you but could you describe this for the camera?" "Where did it happen?" "Do you remember how it took place?" "Ali was next to you." "Did you ever talk to Ali about?" "OK then Ahmet." "Let's change the subject." "Let's talk about this place." "This place is a sanitary treatment center." "Turkish and Greek sewage is treated into clean water here." "And then used for agriculture." "The ex crement of two ethnic groups that absolutely hate each other are purified together." "In the tanks outside!" "Greek sewage is piped here from the other side." "And then it's mixed with Turkish sewage." "To make clean water!" "Right now!" "Was it a good idea for us to make your cast here?" "What do you think about that?" "You lived through some stuff in the war too." "Why don't you talk about that?" "You only remember me because I was wounded." "If I hadn't been wounded, I would have been a nothing." "Sorry I kept you waiting." "I didn't disturb you, did I?" "Nah!" "I was just real surprised to see you here." "Unfortunately, I didn't come for the meeting." "Our Ali wants a cast made of his head and throat." "And you..." "Yes, we've got his cast." "He asked if you'd give it to him, but..." "What's he going to do with it?" "I don't know." "That's Ali for you!" "If he could talk, we'd know." "Anyway, how you doing?" "You OK?" "How could I be?" "Just like you see." "Don't waste your head on this stuff." "That's why the graves are getting to you,Temel." "Here you go!" "Whatever good it'll do you..." "I wracked myself out trying to get this cast for you." "Ali, have you found anything new?" "You haven't heard it from me but I found out that they're going to give you a medical discharge." "I heard the commander talking." "He said to the doctor," "'That guy that lived through the massacre.' He was talking about you." "Oh, you fool!" "Oh God, Ali." "Ali." "Offf." "Hello Temel!" "Hey, good to see you." "Thanks..." "How you doing?" "We're not going to keep this statue in our house anymore, Temel." "Why not?" "Things are happening that I don't like." "Complaints." "They threw stones at my house the other night." "They say that anyone that wants peace with the Greeks is a traitor." "And we're scared; that's why." "We're scared." "So, here's your money." "Take it back." "Soldier!" "Son." "Would you give me some mud?" "Thank you..." "How's your throat?" "I'm glad you're using the mud." "Goodbye now." "I want to move the fence 2-3 meters back." "Count me out on this, Ali." "You do this and they'll come after you." "You know that." "Oh God!" "Look..." "if you do this they really will come after you." "I didn't help you." "You didn't see me." "You didn't listen to me." "Got that?" "Will this mud ever be of any use, Ali?" "What do you mean?" "Oh for God's sake, Ali!" "Ali, get over here." "A person with sense would never do this." "I'll be here tomorrow." "By then have a good look and see what you can find, OK?" "I gotta go now." "Come on Ali." "Halil, it's me, Ayse." "You've got to call me." "It's important." "Hello." "We came to see the statue from the Greek side." "Be quick about it." "Thanks." "Can we watch the Greek man on the television?" "No." "Ayse!" "Hello, Ayse!" "Hello." "Can I take the cast and the video?" "Sure." "Go ahead." "Come on, Mahir." "Ayse," "there's actually something else." "The Swedish sponsors wanted an easier project." "They said the sculpture installation didn't work as well as they wanted." "Now they want us to try taking sperm, sperm from Greek and Turkish men." "Sperm from families who have lost family members." "We'd have to freeze it." "In special tanks." "Yeah, we'll store it in those." "Under lock and key." "It'll be kept over in the sanitation treatment center." "I wanted to know if you would come and have a look." "I can give you some liquid nitrogen." "Ayse, are you OK?" "Did something happen?" "No." "Hello." "I've got medicine and food for Ali Sezgin." "What are you doing?" "I brought you medicine." "And some food..." "I'm not so bad..." "Halil's not around." "He doesn't call." "The sperm is going to be kept here." "You have to store it at minus a hundred and ninety degrees." "Yeah." "We're going to put the photographs of the sperm donors on the walls." "I want to get a sample from Ali too." "When he gets out of prison." "I was going to ask you for a favor." "Sure, whatever. I'll be glad to." "Ali wants some mud." "From the place with those antique ruins?"