"FROM FAR AWAY" "Istanbul, April 2005" "Istanbul is the starting point of my journey through Turkey" "A journey that starts in the west and that should end in the east." "Turkey is the land my father comes from." "I haven't been here for more than 20 years." "I know it, what was her name again?" "Mine Kosan." "Keep quiet!" "I'm trying to get it done." "One Moment..." "Do Re Mi Fa So...." "A telephone set phrase:" "Hello." "Everybody knows that." "What does this mean?" "Braid." "What's up?" "What's up?" "You got no credit left on your mobile?" "Great!" "Gamze, tell my brother, he should send five credit units to Elif." "No." "A raw material:" "Aba." "Wait, I'm gonna write it down in sec." "Such games show the greatness of a team!" "What do you see on this picture?" "A man got on a motorbike and goes for a drive on the highway." "I'd like to ask something.." "When we are in a driving car and we look outside, how do we perceive what's outside?" "I like to say two things:" "One sees the asphalt on the road.." "How do we see the houses outside?" "We see the houses clear and fine, but they pass by fast." "So you don't see them sharp?" "No, they're not sharp." "Did the artist paint blurry here?" "Yes." "Could it be, that the motorbike is moving?" "Yes." "What did the painter do, to achieve this moving effect?" "He painted it blurry." "How does the painter show us the wind on this picture?" "In the other picture we had a vehicle in motion, and the background was blurry." "How is this wind effect achieved?" "You see the strokes of the brush from here." "Yes." "With the strokes of brush, you see?" "It looks like a mountain, and it could be a cool wind from there." "And there you also see a forest." "Do we see the trees in the forest?" "There are long trees." "Their leaves look like palms." "Are their leaves mixed?" "Yes." "What do you do in the semester break?" "We want to go to Moscow or to St. Petersburg." "Well, let's see." "What do you want to do in the cold?" "I promised it to Pinar, that's why." "And where will you go?" "I'll go to a place that's warm." "There's nothing." "It's finished." "We mixed this together.." "...with the thunder." "It's good." "The actual problem lies there." "The background is left blank." "If we put this in between, it's good." "This here is okay." "That's okay." "This here is okay too." "We kicked out the second one." "That's okay." "This one we'll have to shorten." "Yes, we'll have to cut faster." "We'll have to shorten these too." "And we'll also have think about these." "This has to be shorter too." "And this one's finished." "Where's the particular shot?" "We'll take them both." "Yes we should." "Behind which image?" "Behind this one." "Between these two." "Yes, that's how it's got to be." "Ankara, the nation's capital." "This is where I spend my years in elementary school." "At that time my family and I were living in the district of Maltepe in the surrounding area of the Atatürk mausoleum." "Give me a light." "Come on." "Wait man!" "Bastard!" "Erhan, don't you want to swim?" "Just go!" "No, retard!" "Do you want him to get ill?" "Just go, buddy!" "I'm gonna kill you then." "Get the ball!" "Do not fear!" "The red flag that waves at dawn will not die." "She is the very last fire in the hearth, which blazes above my home." "She's my nation's star, which will shine forever." "It's my star and the star of my nation." "For god's sake, keep a straight face, sensitive crescent." "Smile at my heroic race!" "Why this fierceness and rage?" "Our blood that we spilled for you would have been for nothing." "The independence is my people's right, who have faith in god." "At ease!" "My father and my aunt were born in this house behind the wall." "When we moved out of here, we were ten or eleven, we cried a lot." "Because this was our world." "Our park, our house, our friends." "It was difficult for us, to leave it." "But we also got used to our new house." "When I look at all this, then it all looks like back then." "For me it all looks like back then." "It's nice to live with memories." "After your father went to Germany, it was hard to live here, alone with your grandmother." "My father died in this house." "The house was new." "It was beautiful." "But I never was as happy here... as I was in my birthplace." "Kurosetece (?" "), the forest quarter." "This is where my aunt lives now." "The apartments are equipped with modern comfort and the houses are guarded by a security firm." "After an eight hour drive we arrive in Gaziantep." "The syrian border isn't far from here." "Gaziantep is the center of the southeast." "A few kilometres from Gaziantep runs the Euphrates." "For reasons of producing electrical power and watering the inland, the Euphrates was damed up at several points." "The old village Halfeti was flooded and the population was relocated six kilometres into the inland." "We have reached the east of the country now." "The civil war between the turkish military and the kurdish PKK took the lives of 30000 people." "This war ended a few years ago." "The military is still present on the streets." "Dyabakir" "With a population of about 1 000 000, Dyabikir is the biggest city in the east." "80% of the population are kurds." "Passport!" "Van." "Van is the last big city in the east of Turkey." "Also in Van the majority of the people is kurdish." "Only recently it has been allowed to speak the kurdish language publicly." "Long live the leader "Apo". (Abdullah Öcalan/Leader of the PKK)" "Stop at a convenient position." "Open the front door." "Drive." "There you go." "The change to 10 billion." "Is anyone getting off in Yarum Batman, Saracoglu or at the precinct?" "There's someone getting off in Yarum Batman." "Open the back door." "Open the front door too." "Keep on driving." "Is anyone getting off in Saracoglu or at the precinct?" "Keep on driving." "Keep on driving." "Anyone who hasn't paid yet?" "Anyone without a ticket?" "Who hasn't paid yet?" "Anyone still getting change back?" "Someone wants to get off at the stoplight." "Akdamar." "A small island on the Lake Van." "The 10th century church is one of the few traces of the armenian people's history in Turkey." "In 1915, the young turkish government organized the deportation and assassation of the majority of the armenian population." "Since then the armenian culture has vanished from public life." "We're looking for an old cemetary with armenian graves nearby Dogubeyazit." "We're approaching Arsep (?" "), a remote village that has been destroyed by an earthquake last year." "Dogubeyazit lies at the foot of the more than 5000 meter high Ararat" "A small town close to the iranian border." "The Ararat is mentioned in jewish, christian and islamic written records." "This is where Noah's Ark is told to have landed after the flood."