"Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Melis?" "Melis, can you hear me?" "It's Suha, Suha." "Hello?" "Melis, I got a call from university." "I'm going to pick up Prof Memduh." "But the rain is something else." "I'm calling from the car." "Can you meet him forme?" "Hello?" "Melis, can you hearme?" "Hello?" "God damn it!" "Is anyone there?" "Hey!" "Is anyone there?" "Answerthe door!" "C'mon, answerthe door!" "Is anyone there?" "At last!" "It looks like I've found someone." "Ourhearts must be one." "Let the bitteror angry among you speak out with an open heart." "Let the angerbetween you be gone." "If you've spilled, replenish, if you've drawn tears, bring laughter if you've brought low, raise up." "Speak of yourgrievances that a remedy may be found." "Let those with a claim seek their due." "Let those who shun reconciliation leave the gathering." "Now I ask you all, brethren, are yourhearts one?" " Are yourhearts one, brethren?" " Amen." " Are yourhearts one, brethren?" " Amen." " Are yourhearts one, brethren?" " Amen." "Love needs demonstration, a cause needs evidence." "So let's see that demonstration, that evidence." "As the rules of ourtradition ordain, the reckoning shall begin with me." "Brethren, I stand humbly before you with an open heart." "I lay my soul, I sacrifice my flesh before God-Muhammad-Ali." "Let those with a grievance against me step forward and speak out." "Let those with a claim seek their due." "Forthis is the place of Muhammad-Ali." " Greetings, true friend of God." " Greetings, true friend of God." "Bow down." "The Dede has attained spiritual presence." "As ourteachings ordain, I call first upon the Doorof the Law." "Speak up, Mukhtar." "Do you have cause for complaint against the Dede?" "Has he given you trouble?" "I have no complaint whatsoever." "The Dede has my blessing." "May he have God's too." "And you, neighbours?" "Do you have cause for complaint against the Dede?" "This is the Hall of the Forty Saints, the meeting house of brethren." "Let those with something to say but unable to say it let those with a grievance but unable to express it let them not hold back, but speak out." "Let bad thoughts not reside within us." "Let ourhearts not be sullied." "Let those in this hall not suffer the consequences of evil, God." "Amen." "Well, Dede." "I've opened the floor." "Sit up." "Replenish what you've spilled, bring laughterwhere you've drawn tears..." "Ali Riza, what's this coffin?" "It isn't a coffin." "It's Ismail." "Ismail's stone-cold body." "Bektas Sofu." "It really falls to you to seek justice for him." "You were his mentor." "In ourfaith, mentorship has precedence overfatherhood." "But you abandoned him." "Look, Ali Riza, Ismail's death grieves me as much as you." "But he killed himself." "In ourfaith, no one can take the life God has given them." "It's a grievous sin." "When has it ever been right to bring the dead into this hall?" "He who walked to God has now become one with God." "There's nothing I can do in the circumstances." "Come, Ali Riza." "Let's take the coffin outside and continue with ourgathering." "True, your relationship ends with a soul who's been blessed." "But if my son is to be thrown in the grave unblessed he still has things to say to you." "If I may, Bektas Sofu, I'd like to say a word." "To tell the truth, I tend to think like you." "But the seeds of hatred must not be scattered among us." "I'd say that just this once the coffin should remain in our midst." "If this eases Ali Riza's grief, then our hearts will be gladdened." "Since this gesture will ease Ali Riza's suffering since ourbrethren here see fit well, all right, let the coffin stay." "It's overto you, Ali Riza." "Speak out, let's hear you." "Brethren, neighbours I ask for an explanation from Huseyin Dede and Bektas Sofu as to why they insist on sending my son to the grave unblessed." "Bektas Sofu, how can you consent to send a student who you mentored to the grave unblessed?" "You're quite right, Ali Riza." "It falls to a mentorto defend his student whetherdead or alive." "But I'm afraid Ismail lapsed from being a student long ago." "I talked to Ismail many a time." "Look, Ismail..." "Sometimes I pleaded with him, sometimes raised my voice." "But he ignored everything I said." "Then you can have yoursay." " Worse, he insulted me by saying..." " You're Huseyin Dede's man, not God's." "Perhaps I failed partly in my role as mentor." "If you have misgivings, I'm willing to take my punishment." "I don't want anyone punished, Bektas Sofu." "Wasn't it you who said when Ismail was only young 'Take care of this boy, he'll be a betterman of God than us all.'" "What happened?" "Did you get too old for mentoring?" "Ordid Ismail sense your ignorance?" "Pull yourself together, Ali Riza!" "Watch yourwords." "Don't mix up throwing insults and seeking justice." "This is the hall of brethren." "It's no place forsuch reckless talk." "Think a little before you speak." "The Alevi Path tells us to accept people as they are." "But it doesn't say to tolerate those who flout our conventions." "God alone takes the life He has given." "If Ismail had been an Alevi of faith he wouldn't have taken the life God gave him." "As Bektas Sofu said, this is the greatest sin." "The Path of the faithful is manifest." "That's why Ismail hasn't been blessed." "God has compassion, He protects, He loves." "But when the time comes, it's He Who passes judgment." "So the Koran says." "True, in ourfaith it's forbidden to take life." "In the event, the Dede's blessing is out of the question." "That's also true." "But have you considered why Ismail took the life God gave him?" "Neighbours, friends, you all khew Ismail well." "His only concem was to be the perfect human being." "My grief is so overwhelming..." "My grief is so great that if I talked all night I still wouldn't be done." "But there's someone who has the right to speak before me." "Gulizar, my dear." "Demet?" "But that's Demet!" " Hello, I'm Demet." " Good to meet you." "Suha." "When I saw Demet, she had such lovely eyes, such lovely lips." "So we have gorgeous gifls in the party too, I thought." "I swearon ourhonouras workers, on ourintegrity as revolutionaries to fight fascism and imperialism to the last drop of blood in the name of a world without war orexploitation." "My condolences." "My condolences, old friend." "Demet, Demet!" "Hide!" "Demet, don't move!" "COMMUNISTS GO HOME TO MOSCOW" "Ekrem?" "Ekrem!" "Ekrem!" "Murat, coverme!" " Hello." " Hello." " How is he?" " Better." " I'm glad he's recovering fast." " Me too." "The doctorsays he'll be discharged in a week." " Shall we grab a tea upstairs?" " OK." " I'll be back soon." " OK." "You khow what, Süha?" "If it hadn't been for you, Ekrem wouldn't be alive." " It was very brave what you did." " No, c'mon." "If it hadn't been me, someone else would have done it." "No, they wouldn't." "Me, for example." "I was scared to death." "I was pretty scared too, but I had to do it." "That's exactly my point." "You have that in you." "I..." "I've seen you before as well." "Really?" "Where?" "At the illegal protest the otherday." " That one in Cagaloglu?" " Yes, the 'No to NATO' protest." "Everyone was really nervous." "The police noticed the crowd." "We were on the verge of breaking up." "But then you climbed on top of that taxi." "You started speaking." "Yourvoice gave us all courage." "No one left." "I could neverhave done it." "Take as many as you like and get them to as many people as you can." "You're up!" "Welcome." "Good to see you." "Thanks." " Welcome!" " Thanks." " Welcome, Ekrem." " Thank you." " Don't let me disturb you." " Have a seat." "C'mon, sit down." " You look great." " I'm fine, don't worry." "I'm fine." "But the fascists have attacked again." "In Ankara." "Three dead." "Things are a real mess." "The papers are talking about a military coup." "No way!" "You're overdoing it." "They wouldn't dare stage a coup." "...has been forced to seize control in orderto re-establish state authority." "We are ready to sacrifice everything, even ourlives, forthe welfare and..." "What are we going to do?" "Nothing will happen." "We'll fight back." "We'll continue ourstruggle whatever." "...and above all the hostile persons and organizations proliferating of late..." "Are these done?" "OK, I'll take the lot." "You carry on." "See you around." "Sorry, things dragged on a bit." "When I got to the teahouse, you'd already left." "What are you typing?" "An application form..." "What's this about?" "What do you think?" "We've finished university." "What do we do?" "Sit around idle?" "I say you should take that inspector's exam, huh?" "Demet, we've discussed this." "We can't just do our own thing." "The organization wants us to stay underground." "The police!" "Stick this lot in the stove." "Here, throw these in too." "OK, OK." "Now answerthe door." "Keep calm." "Act like everything's OK." "Keep calm." "Sorry, miss." "Yourdownstairs neighbour is out." "Theirson's a draft dodger." "His papers have come." "I've been three times now." "If you can pass them on..." "Of course I will." "But look." "If the guy doesn't come to the police station this week tell him we'll drag him there." "Sure, I'll tell him." "We bumt all that stuff fornothing." "What are you saying, Suha?" "We barely got out of that alive." " OK, OK." "Calm down." " Get off me!" "I've had it with living in fear." "Enough!" "We survived today." "But what about tomorrow?" " How much longerdo we keep this up?" " What's going on with you, Demet?" "Didn't you khow all this before?" "Who are we, huh?" "Who?" " We're revolutionaries." " Yes, we're revolutionaries." "But I became a revolutionary to live the life of my ideals." "Not to go to prison." "I don't want to be tortured or killed." "I want to live, Süha." "I want to live my life with you." "So do I. But while the country's like this..." "Forget the country!" "Is it yourjob to save it, Süha?" "Huh?" "We can't save eitherthis country or its people." "Anyway, who cares about ourstruggle?" "They all see us as terrorists." "Let it go." "At least let's be happy ourselves, Süha." " And the organization?" "Ourfriends?" " They'll catch all of us, Suha." "Even those downtrodden people you've struggled for they'll be cheering when we get caught." "Don't do it, Süha." "I love you." "C'mon, at least let's save ourselves." "Please." "I can't, Demet." "I can't." "I can." "I'll leave the organization and my friends for you." "You have to decide." "Me orthe organization." "Gulizar, why don't you let yourfather-in-law speak now." "We'll come back to you later." "No." "I'll speak." "My Ismail was such a good person." "Don't bury him unblessed." "Did he hurt anyone among you?" "Did he say anything hurtful to anyone?" "That melancholia..." "My Ismail was tormented in his mind by that melancholia." "We managed only two weeks of ourmarriage as man and wife." "We'd just been married." "In the middle of one night..." "Ismail?" "Ismail!" "Ismail." "Where have you been, Ismail?" "We were worried to death." "I'm sorry, Gülizar." "I was up in the hills." "I was out of touch fordays." "Gulizar..." "I have a problem..." "Akind of melancholia." "Sometimes I can't get my head around things." "I just want to go away by myself, to be somewhere quiet." "What are you saying, Ismail?" "What exactly do you mean?" "I can't explain, Gülizar." "Even if I could, you wouldn't understand." " Why not?" "Don't you trust me at all?" " But it has nothing to do with trust." "Look, you khow how since I was small I've listened to and leamed from scholars and Sofus, devotees." "I thought by leaming, I'd discover the secrets of the world and God." "But the more I've leamed, the more I find I don't khow." "It's a mystery I can't solve." "Not even I can understand, so how would you, Gulizar?" "That's OK." "Try to explain just the same." "Look, make a vow then." "What I say stays between us, OK?" "Shame on you!" "You see yourself as one with Imam Ali?" "Have you lost your mind, Ismail?" "I said you wouldn't understand, Gulizar." "Look, you vowed." "If people in the village find out, they'll scom me, see me as fallen." "Why would they do that?" "Everyone in the village likes and respects you." "No, Gülizar." "I khow them." "If they find out what I've told you, they'll make a public disgrace of me." "Who do you mean, Ismail?" "Hüseyin Dede and his band of Sofus." "Hüseyin Dede?" "The Sofus?" "What have they done to you?" "Not me, Gülizar." "It's the people in the village they're really harming." "What are you saying, Ismail?" "They're just sorry people who've abandoned God to chase after money." "Look, we still can't find words to explain these goings-on." "Let's leave all that to the Dedes and Sofus, huh?" "No, Gülizar." "Everyone's responsible forthemselves." "Why put ourfate in their hands?" "Let's think, let's use ourminds." "Let's find Truth ourselves." "It's the only way we can become perfect human beings." "Are you crazy?" "Us?" "Perfect human beings?" "Look, Gülizar." "You vowed." "Everything I've said must stay between us." "Aweek laterhe went off again." "My motherfound out." "She called me over." "She asked, Where does yourhusband keep running off to?" "I had no intention of answering." "But she really pushed me." "And I broke down." "I told hereverything Ismail and I had spoken about." "If only I'd kept quiet and not told her." "My mothertold my father, and my father Bektas Sofu." "Of course he then told the whole village." "Ismail came back to the village eafly one evening." "He didn't khow a thing." "Forfive days and nights he'd been talking with a Dede from Bultu village." "He seemed happy." "He said he'd tell me about it later." "Next moming he was up eafly." "He went to waterthe orchard beyond the meadow." "He was back home within an hour." "The look on his face was so grim." "Gülizar, why did you do this?" "I trusted you." "I confided in you." "Now everyone in the village is talking about me being crazy." "What happened to your vow?" "You weren't going to tell anyone." "Forgive me, Ismail." "I did something foolish." "I begged him, but he wouldn't listen." "He came home two-three weeks later and treated me like a stranger." "He moved to another bed." "I'd reconciled myself to live my life like that." "But destiny even begrudged me that." "Ismail, what's wrong?" "What do you think?" "Everyone in the village has tumed against me." "Even Zülfü." "Zülfü?" "Yes, Zülfü." "My long-time friend won't ackhowledge me any longer." "When I stopped just now to ask how he was, I got the brush-off." "C'mon...!" "It just seemed that way to you." "Zülfü adores you." " I expect he was in a rush, that's all." " No." "Zülfü neverused to be like that." "Zülfü is my brotheron the Path." "Even he has changed." "Don't upset yourself." "You'll see, he'll be along tomorrow to make up." " Why are you taking the rifle, Ismail?" " I'm going hunting." "But you nevershoot animals." " You've gone all pale." " I'm fine." "I'm very happy with you, Gülizar." "May God be happy too." "You've had to put up with me." "Thanks forwhat you've done." "Where are you going, Ismail?" "Nowhere." "I'm going up to the hills." "The hills are calling me." "Gulizar!" "Fatma!" " What's wrong, Zulfu?" " Ismail!" "Ismail's shot himself." " Down by the cemetery." " Ismail!" "Ismail!" "Ismail!" "Ismail!" "Ismail!" "Son!" "My baby!" "We understand yourpain, Gulizar." "Why don't you calm down and continue later?" "But inwardly I was angry with him." "Three days afterhe died Ismail appeared in my dream." "I'm sorry, Gülizar." "I had no other choice." "What will become of me now?" "You'll be fine." "You'll have a better life from now on, Gülizar." "They're calling me." "My time's up." "I nevervalued Ismail as I should." "Maybe he was a saint." "I didn't deserve him." "I didn't deserve him." "You did more than yourduty, Gulizar." "How else could a woman help herhusband?" "No." "I was no help to him." "He went off to the hills to talk to the wolves and birds." "He'd tell me the wind and springs of the hills were his remedy." "I couldn't be the wind orthe water." "Don't waste yourtears, Gülizar." "You did what you could for Ismail." "So did we." "But it didn't help." "It falls to you now to devote yourself to the cause of God-Muhammad-Ali." "By killing himself, Ismail has left a stain of dishonour on you." "Perhaps you can undo that." "Bektas Sofu!" "Bektas Sofu, I'm not stained!" "Look!" "I'm spotless, I have no stains!" " Ismail has stained no one!" " Gülizar, dear!" " I'm not stained!" " Gülizar, dear!" "My purpose is justice, not conflict." "I'm not out to divide the community!" "These people have suffered enough!" "Bless the poorlad and let's bury him." "I'm not stained." "I haven't been dishonoured." "Brethren, don't be offended." "She's young." "She's suffering." "It's OK, Ali Riza." "Gulizar is one of us." "We share in hergrief, but this is the Hall of the Forty Saints." "It's the lodge of the brethren." "And it has its rules and conventions." "OK, the gifl is too grief-stricken to khow what she's doing." "But what to say of the mindless youngsters there who raised their voices just now?" "Neighbours, there's no call for hurt or malice." "What matters is finding the right thing to do and doing it with the consent of all." "We came to this hall to obtain your consent." "What a courageous father, prepared to do everything forhis son." "Would my fatherhave done the same?" "No, he wouldn't." "But the man who rescued me from the hands of the police..." "Hey, get off!" "Get off!" " Move!" " Get off!" "Get off!" "C'mon, let's go!" "Move it!" "Faster!" "Faster!" "Faster!" "Saim Yasar?" "Here." "When you've got your ID, wait in the corridor." "Don't go anywhere." "Faik Seyitoglu?" "Here." "Nazim Karaca?" "Here." "Ali Tezel?" "Here." "Koksal Sonmez?" "Here." "Mehmet Ozer?" "What the hell is this?" "Don't you have any other ID?" "I lost my proper ID." "That's a stopgap till I get a new one issued." "But even you could forge this at home." "All you need is this university card." "Maybe." "But it's my ID, no one else's." "OK, check this against the photos on the wanted list." "Sulhi Bayraktar?" "Looks like I've found him." "That's him, right?" " Yes, looks like him." " I'd say so." "You're making a mistake." "That's not me." " Your name's Süha Kaygusuz, right?" " Süha Kaygusuz?" "No, it's Mehmet Özer." "My dad's name is Bekir." "We live in Acibadem, in Kumru Street." "OK, there's a moustache now." "But the photo's a lot like you." " Can I have a look?" " Sure." "No, c'mon." "The guy's nothing like me." "Look at his hair." "You see a similarity?" " Couldn't you have changed it?" " He's a lot thinnertoo." "It's not me." "There's only one way to find out." "To call one of yourfamily here." "Let the guys outside go." "And someone go to this address here." "Say we're holding theirson." "Bring one of the family here." "Take him downstairs." "Come on then!" "Your dad's waiting for you upstairs." "Thank God!" "Son, you had us worried to death." "...that it's high time you stopped this idleness and got a new ID card." "Here you go." "Listen to yourfatherfor once." "Go straight to the registration office tomorrow." "Don't wanderabout with no ID." "OK." "I'll do it tomorrow." "OK." "Off you go then." "C'mon, old man." "I have work to do." "Thanks." "How come you bailed me out?" "Did you khow Mehmet?" "No." "No, I didn't." "If Mehmet had been alive..." "God bless and keep you safe." "Brethren..." "Tell me forthe love of God." "Which of you could want yourson to go to the grave unblessed?" "Which of you?" "You all khow how strong Ismail's faith was." "Imam Ali cut his wrist." "It began to bleed." "To theirsurprise, the wrists of the Forty Saints began to bleed too." "Then Imam Ali bandaged his wrist and stopped the bleeding." "And the wrists of the Forty Saints stopped bleeding too." "What do you think that means?" "That we're all one." "Well done, Ismail!" "That's my boy!" "'People have theirdifferent shrines." "But my shrine s mankind.'" "'He who builds and rescues it is mankind, humanity.'" "In Alevism, man is central to ourthinking." "The Alevism we khow originates all the way from Khorasan from Melametism, Kalenderism, Yesevism, Babaism." "Hizir Dede will come, come to our brethren" "Hizir Dede will envelop us in his green mantle" "The awaited one will then touch us" "The awaited one will then touch us" "There is no God but Allah" "Look around, Zulfu!" "God is everywhere, in everything!" "In you, in me, in all of us!" "When MansurAl-Hallaj realized this and found the divine light within him he said, "I am Truth"." "They killed him forthat." "So we need to find that divine light within us and become perfect human beings, Zülfü." "Truth!" "Ismail is mad as a hatter!" "I wish everyone was like they are in yourstories, like in ourfaith." "But they aren't." "Don't say that, Ismail." "Both good and bad lie within us." "Well, I khew about the bad, but I'm not so sure about the good." "I get the message." "All this longing for perfection has muddled your mind." "Let's get up tomorrow and go straight into town." "We'll call on Hüseyin Dede." "Let him answer all the questions troubling you." " OK?" " OK." "Selam aleykum!" "Sit down, sit down." "Well?" "What do you do?" "I'm just back from military service." "I'll be working with dad in the fields." "Do the fields keep you in pocket?" "Well, more or less, thanks to you." "Ismail, why don't you go and work in the city?" "In the city?" "You'd eam your own living." "Look, yourdad isn't so well off." "You'd be supporting him." "All the young now go to make money in the city." "But I'm not aftermoney, Hüseyin Dede!" "My concem is to find the Truth." "To become a perfect human being." "Anyway, what's money compared with the Truth?" "These are profound questions, Ismail." "So you're seeking the Truth." "At this age!" "Hüseyin Dede, my Ismail is different." "After all, he's grown up with Sofus." "And I've done my best to teach him what's right and wrong." "All right, I see." "I trust this is no passing fad, Ismail." "Are you sure of yourself?" "Look, you're young." "The Path of devotion is a different one." "Suppose you struggle lateron?" "I'm sure of myself, Dede." "This isn't just some teenage fad." "I'd be glad, of course, to see young people like you among us." "But listen." "Go back to the village and think it over carefully." "I'll talk to Bektas Sofu." "He'll help you." "The Cem rituals will begin in the village in two months." "I'll have a word when I come." "Whatever you see fit." "To attend the ritual of reckoning and reconciliation once a year is to perform a year's worth of ablutions." "Pir Sultan Abdal said...," ""If they force me to perform ablutions and the prayer ritual..."" ""...and if they kill those who recognize Shah Ismail..."" ""..." "I'll leave this mountain pasture and go to the Shah."" "Well said him." "Welcome, son." "Thanks, dad." "Come and sit down." "Here." "What's up, Ismail?" " Did Bektas Sofu say something?" " No, mum." "You khow, mum, these Sofus are no use to me." "All they khow is to say, "Be master of yourwords, actions and morals."" "Shame on you, son!" "What kind of remark is that?" "Sorry, dad, but there's nothing more I can leam from Bektas Sofu." "Look, son." "They took you in despite yourage, they let you go to theirtalks." "So is it right to be saying this?" "Dad, OK." "They've been good to me." "But I'm not afterfavours, I'm afterkhowledge and enlightenment." "Even before they open their mouths I khow what they're going to say, dad what they khow and don't khow." "The more I saw Ismail's predicament, God forgive me the more I blamed myself forbringing him up..." "Son, if everyone's lost theirway and fallen from the Path of God what can you do all by yourself?" "I don't khow, dad." "I'm looking forsomeone high-minded to guide me on my way." "But I haven't found them yet." "Hizir, Hizir, help us..." "Hey, Ismail!" "Ismail!" "Ismail!" "Ismail!" " Ismail!" " Ismail!" " Ismail!" " Ismail!" "Ismail!" "Dad?" "Zülfü?" "What's up?" "What do you think, son?" "We were worried to death!" "Dad, what's there to worry about?" "I've been up here before." "What's there to worry about?" "!" "What kind of person are you?" "Just leave us to worry, to lose sleep, what more?" "!" "You plan to be a perfect human being?" "Is that how I've taught you ourfaith?" "What are you getting us into, Ismail?" "Son, just stop battling with the Dedes and the Sofus." "Dad, I wish I could." "Anyway, c'mon." "Let's go." "Your mum will be worrying." "Oh, dear God!" "Oof!" "In this Hall of the Forty Saints I'm not about to lie in the presence of my brethren." "I'm not about to cover up for Ismail's mistakes." "Of course he had his mistakes." "But I swearby the Twelve Imams that my son was not ill-intentioned." "He nevermeant to hurt anyone." "He tried to do everything as well, as properly as possible." "To his last breath, he neverstrayed from the Path of God-Muhammad-Ali." "It's true." "He committed the greatest sin of all by taking the life God gave him, true." "But let God be the judge of his sins and good deeds." "And let's pull together, let's consent to his blessing as a good student of this congregation." "If I may, I'd like to say a word, Bektas Sofu." "Ali Riza, don't ask me to give Ismail his blessing." "Believe me, I'd take on all yourgrief if I could." "But there's nothing I can do for yourson." "I can't break the rules of the Path." "If I do, I'll be considered fallen." "Ali Riza, be sure that I loved Ismail like my own son." "I worked hard as his guide." "But if we consent to his blessing here we'll start breaking ourrules of propriety." "No, wrong!" "You're committing a grave sin." "The decision should be made by all the brethren here." "What's going on, Fatma?" "Why are you speaking out of tum?" "I have things to say too." "If that's the case, ask first." "There, I have." "Ali Riza has spoken, so has Gulizar." "But to what use?" " Your hearts and minds are blinded." " How can you say such things, Fatma?" "I khow you're grieving, but..." "Let herspeak!" "If Ismail's mother has no say here, who does?" "Why are you speaking without permission, Zülfü?" "I just want Fatma to speak." "Let herspeak." "Of course she'll speak." "If you have something to say too come and say it." "But ask first!" "As Ismail's friend, I have as much right to speak as his parents." "If only you'd thought of that first and asked to speak." "No one has the right to be disruptive by speaking out of tum." "I'm not out to be disruptive." "Then be quiet and stop making trouble!" "I..." "Look, you still won't listen!" "Zulfu, just step outside, have some fresh air and come to yoursenses." "Then come back and speak." "Good forthe guy, he's stuck by his friend." "But no one gave a damn when I ended up in prison." "Can you push it that way a bit?" "That's fine." "OK, the mirrorgoes out, and the box." "The lamp too." "OK." "Thank you, thanks." "No problem." "Hello?" "Yes?" "That's me." "Yes." "Who?" "Oh, Cemil!" "Of course I remember!" "How are you doing?" "I'm fine, just fine." "Sorry?" "What dinner?" "OK, I'll come." "Sure, I'll come." "When is it?" "OK." "OK, see you." "Good to have you out of jail, Suha." "I'm so sorry, lhsan, I didn't recognize you." "How are you?" "Guess I'm getting old." "But you're in good shape." "Look at me!" "No, no, you're fine." "Cemil, how are you doing?" "Fine, Suha." "Struggling on." " Sorry I didn't visit you in jail." " No problem." "You invited me here." " Come and sit down." " OK, let me say hello to everyone." "Hello..." "Hello." "Suha?" "Sevgi?" " How are you?" " Fine, great." "How about you?" "How do I look?" "Fabulous." "I'm certainly not that." "But I'm trying to forget." "My condolences." "I was devastated by Mümtaz's death." "He adored you." "It was you he trusted most." "I adored him too." "He was a good guy." "He didn't say a word undertorture, he protected everyone." " And these are the guys he protected." " Süha, come and have a seat here." "C'mon, let's sit down." "Thanks." "Thanks." "Well, let's hearit then." "I don't khow if you heard, the organization pushed hard back then." "But I stuck with my job." "You khow the state the country was in ourideological standing, and then everyone was somewhere." "Well, I set out to do something in my own field." "I became a building contractor." "I built houses." "I built bridges." "And here I am today." "You khow about everyone else." "Friends, here's to Suha, ourformer party chief!" "If I die fighting as a partisan" "Ciao bella, ciao bella, ciao bella, ciao, ciao, ciao" "You must bury me yourself in my land, you yourself" "You must bury me yourself in my land, you yourself" "Anew day will dawn, a flowerwill bloom" "Ciao bella, ciao bella, ciao bella, ciao, ciao, ciao" "Passers-by will stop to say, "See that beautiful red flower?"" "Passers-by will stop to say, "See that beautiful red flower?"" "There's something weird here." "There's something weird here." "No kidding!" "The guy left the Molotov cocktails at home." "We went through hell trying to get petrol." "Imagine the hole we'd got ourselves in!" "I laugh whenever I think of it." "Unbelievable!" "It was just dire." " You're not having any fun, are you?" " To be honest, I'm bored to death." "Let's go." "It'll be rude right now." "Let's wait a bit, then go." "As you like." "Why do you weep, my ebony-locked love?" "Why do you weep, my ebony-locked love?" "This will pass too, don't weep" "My walls and sighs have reached the heavens" "This will pass too, don't weep" " C'mon, let's go." " OK." " Friends, if you'll excuse us..." " Hey, stop!" "The night's still young." "It's just Sevgi and I have things to talk about." " Well, goodbye." " OK, good night." " Good night." " Good night." " Oh, Süha!" " What a great evening." "The guy's really aged." "It's so weird." "Sitting here, I can't help thinking of the fourwalls of my cell." "And yet I couldn't wait to get out." "I wish I could forget those days completely." "To be able to forget must be a wonderful thing, a soothing feeling." "But it doesn't happen, does it?" "You can't forget." "No." "Even if you want to, you still can't forget." "Sometimes I get furious with Mümtaz fordying so young." "Fornot talking undertorture." "For not snitching on his friends." "I tell myself I should forget him." "But I can't." "Then I'm ashamed for having those thoughts." "...then it starts all overagain." "Fatma, it's yourtum now." "Say whatever you have to say." "May God give you what you deserve." "Perhaps I should have said what I'm about to say 20 years ago." "Twenty years ago Hizir, peace be upon Him, appeared to me." "I'll neverforget that day." "Shall I hide it?" "Where is it?" "Ismail!" "Ismail!" "Ismail!" "Ismail!" "Ismail, where are you?" "Ismail!" "No, I'm done for!" "Help me!" "Ismail!" "I've lost my child, Hizir!" "You haven't lost him." "The saints were testing you, dear." "Be yourself and don't leave your child's side ever again." "Hizir, peace be upon Him, told me not to leave my son's side." "But I couldn't keep an eye on him." "He went off to the hills." "I'm the one to blame." "Consider me fallen ratherthan burying my son unblessed." "Consider me fallen but..." "Oh Hizir, show me mercy." "You're too grief-stricken to khow what you're saying, Fatma." "You thought you saw Hizir." "It often happens that nursing mothers have delusions like that." "Mine wasn't a delusion." "It was Hizir." "Oh, Fatma!" "You think Hizir, peace be upon Him, appears to everyone?" "Anyway..." "Does anyone else want to speak?" "Brethren, irrespective of ourgrief, as ourfaith ordains Ismail will remain unblessed." "Let that be khown to all." "Now take the body to the grave." "I won't let you have my son." "You can't bury him unblessed." "Leave my son!" "Leave my son!" "Fatma, let go." "Fatma, stop." "Please!" " So we just agree to this injustice?" " No, Fatma!" "We'll go to the Dede's teacher, if not to our master if not to the people's court!" "Calm down, Fatma!" "Leave my son!" "Leave him!" "Hizir?" "It's Hizir, peace be upon Him." "Come and look, neighbours." "Come and look!" "Look!" "How He's weeping at the injustice, bless His heart!" "They've stolen it." "They've stolen Ismail's body." "How could you do this?" "Look!" "Ismail isn't dead." "Didn't I tell you his place was with the Forty Saints?" "He's alive." "Ismail is alive." "No way!" "It can't be." "That's me." "But I'm not dead." "No, I'm not dead." "I'm not dead." "I'm not dead." "I'm not dead." "I'm not dead!" "I'm not dead!" "I'm not dead!" "I'm not dead!" "I'm not dead." "I'm not dead!" "I'm not dead!" "I'm not dead!" "I'm not dead!" "I'm not dead, am I?" "No, you aren't dead." "Our joumey isn't over yet so you can't be dead."