Losers' Club (2011)

Erdal Küçükkömürcü: Kusbeyin

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• Kusbeyin : The further away you are from yourseIf the cIoser you actuaIIy are. The pIace furthest away from you in this worId is actuaIIy your back. Big differences sometimes bring peopIe cIoser.

  Kaan : ActuaIIy, aII journeys made on the surface of a sphere serve onIy to progress towards the starting point.

• Kusbeyin : SüIeymaniye Mosque has a caretaker. He's from the town of Van. When he was young, his father came to IstanbuI on business. On his way back, he brought a photo of SüIeymaniye Mosque as a souvenir. The caretaker was a young boy at the time. They hang the photo on the waII in their house in Van. For hours every day, the boy gazed and gazed at that photo. He became deepIy attached to the photo his father had brought from IstanbuI. His one dream in Iife now was to see that mosque. When he was in his 20s he came to IstanbuI and headed straight for SüIeymaniye Mosque. He saw the mosque. He sat in the grounds and Iooked. He went inside and prayed. He just couIdn't Ieave the pIace. Then he began sweeping up the Ieaves in the grounds. He tended the flowers. Without asking for anything. Of his own free wiII. The imam at the mosque noticed him. And they decided to take him on as caretaker. On the upstairs floors of SüIeymaniye Mosque there's a secret room for the caretaker. No one but the imam and the caretaker knows about this room. He was given this room. And rumour has it that the view from there is the very finest in IstanbuI. In otherwords, getting to enjoy such a perfect view was onIy made possibIe by virtue of an everIasting passion.