"This is my grandfather and me, this is our first photo." "And here we are today, many years later with the whole family." "That's me on the left, and my granddad on the right." "This is our last photo together." "Shortly after this photograph was taken, everything changed." "I often think about what my life would have been like had I been born in Turkey, not Germany." "I owe the fact that I am 'made in Germany' to the German Economic Miracle." "Since the mid 1950′s, there'd been a rise in foreign labour mostly from Southern Europe" "German doctors are here examining people's fitness for work." "The procedure almost looked like a livestock auction." "Only for healthy ones are allowed to go to Germany." "As you know, there is a labor scarcity" "We no longer have enough Spanish and Italian workers." "We decided to take on Turkish workers" "On September 10th 1964, a foreign worker made history." "On this day Germany broke a historical record for the number of immigrants." "One of these men was destined for glory." "Please, you first." "No, please." "Congratulations, you are the one-millionth guest worker in Germany!" "Welcome!" "Unfortunately, only one." "The millionth guest worker- Armando Rodriguez - took that honour" "There was a ceremony for him and a gift – a motorcycle with two seats." "Neither he nor the other workers understood yet that they had become an indispensable element for the welfare of Germany." "Although Armando Rodriguez was the millionth guest worker," "I want to tell you the story of the millionth-and-one." "A man named Huseyin Yilmaz, my grandfather." "And so my grandfather entered his hopeful future." "Hey, Huseyin, wait a minute!" "45 YEARS LATER" "I've changed my mind." "I don't want a German passport." "Have you lost your mind?" "Why did we apply for naturalization?" "This wasn't my idea anyway." "My god, give me strength." "Why must I discuss everything with you?" "We will go there tomorrow and pick up our German passports!" "While my grandfather and grandmother were thinking they had problems, I stood before a real one." "No, it can't be!" "I take birth control every day!" "Goddamn it, what did you do to me?" "What did I do?" "What kind of freak sperm to you have?" "!" "We all had problems." "Even my little cousin, Cenk." "Cenk, what about you?" "Where shall we put your flag?" "Germany?" "Of course, that's true, but what is the name of that beautiful country where your father comes from?" "Uhm..." "Anatolia." "It's called Italy." "No." "Cenk is right, it's Anatolia..." "and it´s the eastern part of Turkey." "Sorry, but this is a European map it ends by Istanbul." "How about we put your flag here, okay?" "Engin, where are you from?" "I'm from Istanbul." "You are from Istanbul, wonderful!" "Okay, we've placed everyone." "What should I wear tomorrow?" "This?" "Or this?" "Wife, are you crazy?" "Both are the same." "Almighty!" "How can you be so calm?" "Are you not excited?" "No!" "Almighty, give me strength." "Almighty, don't pay attention her." "Give me the strength!" "Or would you prefer this?" "So..." "Mr. and Mrs. Yilmaz..." "The only thing missing is the fourth additional article on page 118..." "As German citizens, your duty is to remember that the German culture is the primary culture." "Do you accept this?" "Very good." "As Germans, you will become members of a rifle club." "You will eat pork twice a week." "You will watch the TV series "Crime Scene" every Sunday and you will go to Mallorca every second summer." "Do you accept these obligations?" "But..." "Of course." "We must do these things properly." "Congratulations." "You are now German citizens." "Hüseyin, no need to panic!" "We are still Turkish." "It's beautiful." "Get up, get dressed." "We have to go." "Today, we will be German citizens." "Come on, Let's play football!" "Turks against the Germans!" "Come on!" "You can have him." "He is also German." "He sure looks like one." "He doesn't even speak Turkish." "He doesn't know anything." "Fight!" "Hi, Mom." "I am going over to your grandparents'." "Okay." "Hi, Mom." "Your hair looks great!" "What?" "It's super." "Cenk, don't forget the cake." "OK, I'm coming." "Let's set the table." "Oh, Cenk!" "You're here!" "What did you do at schoo..." "What happened to your eye?" "Nothing!" "This is for you!" "Cenk, what did you do to your eye?" "Nothing." "My son, what happened to your eye?" "NOTHING!" "A Turkish boy in class told him he's not a real Turk." "What?" "Ali!" "You will go to school tomorrow and show everybody that we are real Turks!" "Dad!" "My grandson not a real Turk!" "Ridiculous!" "Don't touch!" "Very tasty." "And how are you?" "Good." "Mom, why do you always make it so spicy?" "Then just eat the rice." "That's also too spicy." "It will pierce my stomach." "Ali!" "This is Muhammed." "Open the door." "Hi, Hi son..." "No,it's too spicy!" "Hi Muhammed." "Son, why are you so late?" "I missed the bus, Mom." "What happened to your eye?" "Nothing." "Nothing." "Everyone!" "I have a surprise." "We are Germans now!" "What?" "German?" "Oh no!" "Of course!" "No!" "No, that's not the surprise" "The surprise is:" "I bought a house ...in Turkey, in our village." "In our homeland." "Why on earth?" "You want to move back there?" "Look." "This is our homeland." "Beautiful, isn't it?" "Huh?" "We are from there?" "So, I want to go Turkey for our next holiday together." "The house is old and needs to be renovated." "It would be very good, if all of you would help." "We've already made other plans for the holidays, we can't go." "Muhammad was laid off from work, he can go." "I can drive down to save you the flights." "Veli!" "What?" "It's true?" "I am paying all the flight tickets!" "Super!" "Oh, no." "That's enough!" "Be quiet, damnit!" "What have I ever asked of you, as your father?" "You just sit around and say blablabla..." "Shame on you!" "We are a family." "We are a Turkish family!" "What are we then?" "German or Turks?" "German." "Turks." "Your grandmother and grandfather have a German passport now." "It's just a piece of paper!" "We are still Turkish." "You too!" "Cenk, people can be Turkish and German." "Just like you." "No you can't!" "You must play for one team:" "German or Turkish!" "If grandfather and grandmother are Turkish, why are they here?" "Because..." "Because the Germans called them." "How?" "Yes." "Not just them, but many Turks, Yugoslavs and also Italians." "They were all called here." "Really?" "Dear citizens of the world!" "The Federal Republic of Germany calls out to you!" "Our country is looking for labor." "If you are young, strong, and are a hard worker..." "Please contact the nearest public office immediately." "And then what happened?" "You want to listen to the whole story?" "It all started in a small village in south-eastern Turkey." "Look, here." "Nearby grandfather's new house." "A very pretty village in a small valley." "The people there lived a simple, peaceful life." "They sowed their fields and tended their animals." "Life went it's usual quiet course" "Except for a young man, let's call him Grandfather, whose life had become somewhat less quiet because had his eyes on the daughter of the head of the village." "Not the fat one!" "The one in the middle!" "The pretty one." "That was grandmother." "No, our girl is not right for you." "Go and find yourself another girl." "They don't know German?" "Hmm." "Okay." "In German, that would mean:" "No!" "But Hüseyin didn't accept the father's rejection" "Instead, he abducted her." "At that time was enough for a single man touch an unmarried woman for her to be dishonoured" "What does "dishonoured" mean?" "Uhm.... how do you explain this?" "Does it have something to do with sexual stuff?" "Grab the chickens!" "If you hold them tightly enough, they'll lay an egg!" "Veli, Muhammed!" "Stop that!" "Idiots!" "How many times have I told you that you can't grab the poor chickens." "They'll be too scared to lay eggs." "We didn't," "I swear!" "Really, father." "Raising a family of five wasn't easy in these conditions." "As much as Hüseyin tried, there still wasn't enough to live off." "Look what it says here." "What does it say?" "I can't read." "It says that Germany is still looking for workers." "My uncle's son in law has been working there for a while." "He sends home a thick bundle of money every month." "Really." "He said that he saved up so much money in one year that he could buy a taxi!" "Bye-bye, my dear, Call me." "Have a good journey!" "I love you so much." "So like many others, Hüseyin left his homeland and came to Germany as guest worker." "To Almanya, where everything was different." "Especially the language." "Thankfully, the ceremony had an interpreter." "Dear guest workers, welcome!" "Today is a very important day for all of us and I hope that we will work together successfully." "I'm coming." "Welcome, welcome, welcome!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "I'll get mother!" "Muhammed, Leyla..." "How much you've grown." "Don't you recognize me?" "It's me" "Don't you know who he is?" "That's father." "Hüseyin wasn't thinking of bringing his family to Germany." "My goodness, my head scarf!" "So why did they come to Germany?" "What?" "Exactly as it is!" "Your son has skipped school for whole 21 days." "Four!" "Six!" "Five and we've got a deal." "Five and a cigarette." "You son of a..." "If I catch you..." "Cigarettes, I have cigarettes!" "Cigarettes!" "After him!" "I guess there is a lack of discipline in your family." "I work day and night, so that one day you ignorants will become decent people but you son of a donkey keep running away from school!" "He insults himself again." "Come here, I'll break your bones." "I'm taking you to Germany." "All of you." "There you'll learn about discipline." "The Germans are experts on it." "Then you'll see, if you still dare to skip school." "Does he really mean that?" "Will he take us all to Almanya?" "No, of course not." "Look, did you see?" "I can thrown even further!" "My son, read." "Mister Yilmaz I'm glad for inform to you that your request for family reunification has been accepted." "It was time to say goodbye." "You know what?" "You'll find Coca-Cola everywhere in Germany." "Really?" "Of course!" "They got tons of it." "Can you send me some when you get there?" "That's not possible." "How come?" "How would a coke bottle fit in an envelope?" "I'm happy that I' don't have to go." "Why?" "There are only infidels there." "My brother told me they eat pork and humans." "They hanged a man on a cross." "They ate him too." "They go to church every Sunday to eat his flesh and drink his blood." "Really?" "They eat people?" "Take this dear, they say Germany is so cold." "Take these, I knitted them myself, they say that Germans are so dirty." "And these are from me, it's not much but they say there are just potatoes there." "Only potatoes?" "On the last night, before their departure to Germany grandmother told everyone to remember their dreams." "She believed that dreams could show the future." "Unfortunately, nobody remembered their dreams that night." "Nobody, except uncle Muhammed." "The rat ate my ear!" "My ear is bleeding!" "Damn rats." "Muhammed vomited." "You son of a donkey." "Why are you vomiting in this room?" "Look at what you did." "Fatma!" "Why you are yelling at the kid?" "Poor thing was afraid." "Come, my boy." "Wash and put on something clean." "Give me your hand." "What kind of men are you?" "Push!" "Push!" "Goodbye." "Take care." "Why are they throwing water?" "That is a very old Turkish tradition." "If someone goes for a long journey, people pour water in their trail." "It means that the traveler should return as fast as the water needs to evaporate." "They wish for that to happen." "What a strange place." "It looks the same as our place." "No, not at all." "Look closer." "Everything looks completely different here." "Let's go now, it's late." "Cenk has to go to school tomorrow!" "Come on, get up!" " Now, already?" "But what did the homeland look like?" "Was it different?" "Soon you'll see." "Because we go there together.." "Because grandpa bought a home... and he needs help from the family." "All of the family." "We have to go now." "Yes, we also have to go." "There are two job interviews tomorrow." "Of course." "Thanks." "Look Dad, this is also possible." "Done?" "Let's clean your mouth." "What do you want to hear?" ""The Brave Little Tailor" or..." ""Seven Crows"?" "I want to hear this." ""Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves"." "Was Ali Baba a Turk?" "He was brave enough, certainly.." "He must have been a Turk." "Why don't I speak Turkish?" "You are talking a little bit now, aren't you?" "I can't go with you." "Really." "I'm sorry but I have exams." "Exams, exams, exams..." "The greatest test in life is to know what is important and what is not." "Who knows when we can go on vacation as a complete family again." "It is better that you come with us." "It will be very nice." "You'll see." "Don't they have other hobbies?" "They are like savages." "There is such thing as birth control pills, but I'm sure they don't know how to use them." "Pardon me, you have to excuse us foreigners." "You know, lying around in the jungle all day, we really don't have anything else to do." "What we do know other than lie back and fuck!" "Who was talking to you?" "There are people who love their children..." "Even if it's more than one and a half..." "What do you say?" "I'm going on holiday to Turkey." "What?" "Now?" "How will you go in this condition?" "David, I'm just six-week pregnant." "It's not even the size of a gummy bear." "I also need time to tell my family." "They're going to hate me." "Woman?" "Lord in heaven!" "Woman?" "Woman, you must be getting old." "Didn't you hear the water boiler whistling for hours?" "And why did you buy green olives?" "You know that I only like the black." "But I like green olives." "Aha." "Are you dieting again?" "I'm tired of eating black olives." "We've eaten black olives for 50 years." "I guess this is not about the color of the olives, right?" "Tell me, what's on your mind." "The house!" "Why did you buy the house?" "I told you that I will not return to Turkey!" "My place is with my children in Germany!" "Who said that we're moving back?" "We aren't?" "And the house?" "A summer home for the holidays." "They taste awful!" "Huseyin, look what we have received in the mail." "An invitation." "For immigrants." "But we're Germans now." ""Germany say thank you..."" "They want me to make a speech?" "In front of the Chancellor!" "They are crazy!" "I'll never do that!" "Almighty!" "In front of Angela Merkel?" "Stop, stop, put these in, and also these." "Are you insane?" "Why?" "What is this?" "Do you want to open a store in Turkey or what?" "These are gifts!" "I don't want you to go." "I can't cancel, I tried, but..." "I need the time to talk to my mom." "You don't know what can happen in Turkey!" "You have no idea!" "Then I'll go with you, I'm family now." "No, you're not." "We need these, all of these." "It's not like I'm going to Turkey for the first time." "That's enough, that's enough!" "Turkey is swarming with mosquitoes." "You are my embryo's father." "This is very different." "Canan, we are having a child." "We are a family." "You, me and the baby." "Not at all, the family is large, aunts, uncles..." "Each family has a story." "The kid, who will raise it?" "We or your family?" "This is the first trip with our German passports." "You don't even know how great that is." "That's terrible!" "Almighty, do you have to do this now?" "We are going on holiday." "Should we return to a dirty house?" "Quick!" "The taxi is here!" "Hurry, hurry!" "I'm coming!" "Four hour delay!" "Are they still building the plane?" "Gabi!" "Four-hour delay." "Are you serious?" "I'm bored." "Would you like to play something?" "No!" "Canan, I want to listen to the story." "Okay then..." "Where were we..." "When they arrived in Germany, they immediately realized that everything was very different." "Men don't have moustaches here." "Why?" "Did you see?" "Everybody here is a giant." "Why did the man stop, Huseyin?" "What?" "I don't know." "A giant rat, there are giant rats!" "Where?" "It'll eat us for sure." "You idiot, that's no rat." "It's a dog." "Why doesn't have normal legs?" "And why is the rat tied to a rope?" "Germans walk their dogs." "That's why they attach the rope." "Walk with their dogs?" "Yes." "Can't the dogs walk alone?" "They even let them sleep in their beds." "People and animals, in the same bed?" "Yes." "Almighty, help us." "Veli, hurry up!" "This is our new home." "This woman is half-naked." "And this is our own toilet." "What is the disgusting chair for?" "It's a German toilet." "You sit on it." "With your bottom on it?" "Yes, yes over there." "No one will sit here until I've cleaned it up." "Who knows what diseases the Germans have?" "Almighty, help us." "This is the children's bedroom." "The three of us sleeping in the same bed?" "I don't want to sleep with him." "This is your brother, alright?" "Your flesh and blood." "Be quick, I need pee." "I clean the Germans' shit for you, and you complain that I'm too slow?" "What's the hurry?" "Come here, don't run away." "But I need to pee." " Go to the back of the house." "What's going on?" "What the hell is this?" "Jesus..." "Christians worship him." "Take it away." "Take it away!" "A wooden sculpture..." "they worship a wooden sculpture?" "Almighty, I don't believe this." "Stop it!" "You're hogging the blanket." "Am not." "You're so fat, you don't need a blanket." "What did you say?" "Huseyin, tomorrow you have to go shopping." "We don't have any more bread." "Shops are already closed when I get home from work." "You must go." "Are you crazy?" "I can't go alone." "But what should I say?" "I don't know the language yet." "Then it must be time to learn." "Sons of donkeys." "I'll show you." "Father is coming." "Idiots, I have to wake up at six o'clock in the morning!" "If I hear another noise, I will beat the daylights out of you!" "Do you understand me?" "All because of you, you idiot!" "Me?" "Who started, you idiot?" "We came here because of you." "If you hadn't run away from school, we would still be at home." "Shh!" "Father will come again." "I'd like some bread." "Bread!" "Well.. bread!" "No!" "Bread!" "Bread!" "Well, no bread then." "Do you have milk?" "Milk!" "Milk!" "Thank God, they know milk!" "It's eight o'clock." "There they are!" " Where?" "Here!" "We're here!" "When I grow up, I'll become a garbage man." "You're a girl, you can't be a garbage man." "I can be too." "No you can't." "It's called garbage man and not garbage woman." "I'll become a garbage man anyway." "A few weeks after arriving in Germany, without speaking a single German word they were all sent to school." "Aunt Leyla was the first to learn the language and served as an interpreter for everyone." "What did she say?" "It's something bad, right?" "Tell me..." "You will have one more baby." "Baby?" "Almighty, a baby." "They're here!" "They're here!" "Where is he?" "Look at him, the first German." "He looks like a German." "He is very ugly!" "Was he really that ugly?" "Of course, look at him." "Still ugly." "Finally we're here." "I'll get the car." "Wait here." "Can you hold these?" "I need to check something." "You have been invited to Bellevue Palace." "What?" "Germany says 'Thank You'." "Wow!" "The Chancellor will be there!" "Says here that she would be happy if you give a speech as the one-million and first guest worker." "I don't believe it." "Take a look." "Unbelievable." "Grandfather will speak in front of the entire nation." "I will not say even one word." "But why?" "I will go there." "I know very well what to say to them!" "Who cares about you?" "They invited father, not you!" "Calm down." "Shut up, everyone!" "I said I will not go, and that's it!" " But you will appear on television!" "Grandmother and grandfather will be famous, and at their age!" "What, me?" "No television." "Then I'll go." "Why you?" "Why not?" "I'm eldest, I will go." "But I'm the most photogenic." "You should consider what to say." "I will say something, really no problem." "You think that I can't speak in front of people?" "My German is better than..." "many German's Turkish!" "I'll think of something." "But now we're on vacation." "If someone has to go there, it's me!" "I'm the eldest!" "Do you want buy simit?" "Yes, give me some." "How many do you want?" "Give me ten." "What?" "Ten pieces?" "He shouldn't buy from this child." "As a result his parents will continue to make him work." " Maybe, there is no other way." "I mean, who would want to make a child work?" "Take it, brother." "This is a present from me." "Thank you, little man!" "Don't let grandfather see me." " No, he doesn't look this way." "Mother..." "I want to tell you something." "Recently, I've experienced many things..." "A lot things have happened, and..." "No way!" "Garbage women!" "Here in Turkey!" "Where is your uncle Mohammed?" "Mother!" "There was this garbage truck, with two women behind the truck!" "You shouldn't eat in these roadhouses." "Ali, come on." "It's very delicious." "You'll regret not eating this." "Really?" "Excuse me!" "Give me... mixed plate." "For me..." "Please." "How is it?" "It's good, isn't it?" "Very tasty." "What grade are you in at school?" "Why don't you answer the question?" "You know Turkish." "My son, why don't you speak Turkish?" "Leave him alone!" "It doesn't matter, he can speak German." "I can also speak some German." "Hello." "Buy some simit." "Very delicious." "Little man, take a photo of us." "Almighty, must that be now?" "Look at us!" "If you were any more beautiful you would be abducted." "What did he say?" "He said, if she were more beautiful he would kidnap her." "Father, Turkish air seems good for you!" "Everyone smile now!" "Allah doesn't like those who do not smile." "Thank you, little man." "Thank you for the meal, Uncle." "May Allah protect you always." "I feel nauseous" " Ali, don't be like that." "Thank you, too." "Good-bye." "There we go!" "Do you want Cenk's suppository?" "Also he ate the same things as us." " Cenk, look." "What do you have?" "What happened?" " Still no suppositories?" "No!" "Dear Madam Chancellor and dear citizens!" "Good?" "Not bad." "So..." "Thank you many much for the invitation." "Grandfather, you must say "very", Thank you very much!" "Thank you very much." "Again, I forgot." "Do you know what?" "The best thing to tell the Chancellor is :" "One moment please." "Hey, Angela!" "What's the problem?" "You are from the East, I'm Eastern too." "We are both Easterners." "Maybe, I should sing a folk song?" "Why are you dancing?" "You're not a woman!" "My son, in our culture, the men dance." "Proudly, with raised arms." "Come and dance, and sing loudly!" "You know I'm in Turkey!" "I said no." "And I say, they were two garbage women." "One blonde and one brunette." "There are no blonde garbage women." " Yes, there are!" "Are we going?" " No, don't hurry." "We have time." "Earlier, you didn't eat much." "Does your mother know?" "Hm?" "What do you mean?" "Your grandmother gave birth to four children." "I know what's what." "Others might not see it, but I do." "You're not married." "You're still in university!" "Couldn't you just wait a bit?" "Such is life." "The important thing is that it doesn't grow up without a father." "There is a father, right?" "But he is not Turkish!" "I thought as much." "He's English!" "Why did you have to get an Englishman?" "Couldn't you at least get a German?" "What can you do?" "It does not matter." "The important thing is..." "That both of you love and respect each other." "One more thing..." "Tell your mother, don't wait too long." "All right, we're coming." "Be a patient!" "Grandfather, what's wrong?" "What happened?" "Nothing." "Heat, it's the heat..." "Everything is okay." "My legs grow heavy." "When will we get there?" "I'm bored." " Cenk!" "Do you want to hear the rest of the story?" "It continues?" "Of course." "Canan?" "Okay." "Where were we?" "Our family already lived in Germany, but they hadn't returned to Turkey." "The longer they were away from home, the more they were influenced by the foreign culture." "Please!" "Please!" "Please!" "So I'll go in there, then I ring the bell?" "First the gifts, put the gifts under the Christmas tree" "Then you ring the bell, okay?" " OK!" "This is our first Christmas." " Yes, we did it!" "Oh no!" "We're not supposed to see the gifts now." "They aren't even wrapped." "If you don't want to see them, close your eyes." "Do you want to play cards?" "No, not really." "Dad, don't you want to cut off your mustache?" "Why?" "Real men always have mustaches." "We are like that." "But nobody here has a mustache, it's not nice." "To resist the German influence," "Grandfather decided to take a vacation in Turkey." "That should bring the kids back to their roots." "Huseyin." "I already told you, just take things that are necessary." "I only packed as many underpants as necessary." "Did you leave anything in the supermarket?" "How much did this cost?" "Should we go home with empty hands?" "They'll think that we're cheap." "it's not as if money grows on trees, here." "Can you put this on the bottom?" "I don't want them to see it." "What you going to do a single bottle of coke, silly head?" "I will give a gift to Emre, I promised." "Please, father!" "Gift to a friend, huh?" "You must keep a promise, right?" "We can put it on the bottom." "May God watch over us and help us arrive to our country safely." "Why don't we go by plane?" " Seriously?" "Do you know how much that costs?" "I'll show you how inferior flying is." "Huseyin, you're worse than the kids!" "We travel by car." "We'll arrive in three days." "I can't wait three days, I have to pee now." "The distance between their old and new home was 2521 km." "It took three days and three nights." "When they arrived, they realized that you can't halt time." "Things had changed..." "they had changed." "I have to poo here?" "This is for you from Germany." "Thanks!" "This is coca-cola, real German coke." "You just brought one bottle, that's it?" "Do you know how hard it was to bring it over here?" "Kemal got a remote control car from his cousin in Germany." "And you cheapskate give me a coke bottle?" "You could at least have brought me a whole crate." "I thought you had so much money over there." "Keep it." "What's wrong with you?" "Wasn't Emre there?" "He wanted a remote control car, and I don't even have one." "He said I was cheap." "Cheap?" "Now even kids talk like this..." "It's all just money, money, money..." "As if we had a coin-shitting donkey in Germany." "Huseyin!" " What?" "It's true!" "Fatma!" "A power failure." "Sons of bitches" "Why pay for electricity, when they just switch it on and off as they please?" "This is the second time this week." "That was actually a small problem." "But problems enlarged with time." "As a result and not according to any plan, grandpa bought a house in Germany..." "That's the house, where everyone lived?" " Exactly." "Why can't grandpa and grandma speak German properly?" "Grandfather, why is your German so bad?" "Who is this?" "He's already called four times." "A friend from school, I guess he needed notes or something." "Mother." "He is not a friend." "He's my boyfriend" "And also..." "I'm also pregnant." "You are a shit brother." "When Melek left me, where were you?" "When I became unemployed, you weren't ever around!" "I sent you money!" "That's nothing to you?" "Everyone does what they can." "I guess you can't do much." "Sevgi wants a divorce." "Good." "She finaly realized what a loser you are." "How could you do that?" "That's your thanks for the freedom I gave you?" "I can already hear people gossiping." "Thank God, your father's not around to see this." "And also with a German!" "British..." "British?" "Why British?" "We have lived together for two years." "I love him." "I got pregnant by accident." "Do you want me to have an abortion?" "Be quiet now, it's a sin!" "Would you take a life, Allah has given?" "Thank the Almighty, my father didn't know this!" "Grandfather knew." "He asked me." "I don't know how he knew." "It's true." "He always knew before I did." "When your father kidnapped me, I was already pregnant." "So I'm the only decent one in this family." "I can't find my key." "The idiot in reception isn't there either." "Can I stay here?" "No..." "What will happen to the invitation?" "Grandpa supposed to give a speech." "Thanks for letting me sleep here." "I'm sorry... about Sevgi." "Whose dogs are these?" "Nobody's." "Where is grandpa now?" "Come here." "Grandpa is here." "And here." "Death isn's bad" "It's normal." "People are born, they grow up, and live their lives." "And one day, they leave again." "Where do they go?" "Well, sit down here." "Do you remember when we talked about water?" "It changes its shape..." "And..." "At a normal temperature, like now water is liquid." "When air gets cold, it becomes ice." "When you boil it... it evaporates, understand?" "It rises to the sky." "So..." "What I'm trying to say is, no matter what water looks like no matter what shape it has" "it's always there." "Do you know what I mean?" "Grandpa evaporated." "Yes..." "Something like that." "This is the address of the cemetery for foreigners." "There must be some misunderstanding, My husband was Turkish." "That may well be, but he has a German passport" "As a German, he cannot be buried in a Muslim cemetery." "You can't be serious." "What do you mean, he can't be buried?" "My father was a Turk!" "Friends, if you like, I could sort this out for you." "I can fix it for you." "What do you have in mind?" "Ten thousand Euros!" "Corrupt asshole!" "Also, the foreigners cemetery is at the far end of hell!" "What's wrong?" "Stop!" "We bring your father to the village." "Immediately!" "Mother, you heard it yourself, my father is a German according to passport." "This is just a piece of paper." "Your father never wanted to be German." "If he isn't buried in the village, I will never forgive myself." "Mother, we can't do that without the necessary papers." "But we do own land in the village." "Mother, that's illegal." "For thousands of years we buried our dead in the ground." "How could it be illegal?" "It's Huseyin's right." "If you want to go back with Cenk..." "Are you crazy?" "We are a family." "Cenk and me, we will be there when they bury Huseyin." "No matter where it is." "Ok." "Then we all agree." "Are these olives?" "Come, I'll help you." "This is the house?" "What is this?" "Only ruins." "It's not really a house." "Not really." "What's wrong?" "I'm staying here." "I will build the house." "That's what I'll do." "With the celebration of "Germany says Thank You"" "the Federal Chancellor invited 200 immigrants of the first-generation to be honoured at Bellevue Palace." "But one unexpected speaker caused a great deal of attention" "See the report of Thomas Kleinbauer." "My name is Cenk." "Huseyin Yilmaz is my grandfather." "He died a short time ago." "But I know what he wanted to say." "We practised together." "Dear Ms. Chancellor, Dear citizens!" "Thank thank you..." "Thank you very much... that I, as the one-million and first worker coming to Germany for work, may speak to all of you today." "I have lived here for 45 years." "We've had ups and downs." "But I'm happy today." "A wise man once give an answer to the question of who and what we are." "We are the sum total of everything that went before us of all we have done, of everything done to us." "We are everyone and everything whose existence affected ours or was affected by ours." "We are anything that happens after we've gone and would not have happened if we had not come." "We invited labor, but people came." "I want to summarize the experience of the company management in one sentence:" "If we had to go through this again, we would only hire Turks." "Usually question words start with "W"." "What, why, when..." "Cenk." "WWhat's going on?" "What is this?" "A map of Turkey." "Thank you very much." "It's beautiful." "Should we add it there?" "Ok, then help me." "Come on." "So let's have a look.." "Here is Istanbul..." "So where is the Anatolia?" "Yes, here." "You can sit now." "You see, Turkey is a much larger country." "Yes, Engin?" "Actually, I'm from Ovacik, in Anatolia." "Ah..." "Then I will put your name there." "Translated by Giles the Black"