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Man is a summary of the universe.
Just like the seed of a tree...
Whatever the tree has is present in the seed.
The tree will become whatever is hidden in the seed.
It is for his reason...
...that whoever talks about the universe talks about man as well...
Whoever understands man understands the universe...
Sema tells the story of both...
...without separating one from the other.
It may be for this reason that some find the universe in Sema, some find themselves.
However, whatever he finds, everyone gets to the same place in the end.
Because Sema is a guide...
...and those who follow it go by the same four steps...
PART 1: FORMATION OF UNIVERSE
According to the first pieces of news about the explosion in Istanbul...
...seven got killed and many got wounded...
PART 2: RESURRECTION
So you reopened your departed father's workshop.
How are you?
I thought you simply avoided the lodge.
But I see you've been neglecting your work as well, right?
Yusuf, how long will you go on like this?
I know, it hasn't been long since...
but living the events that happened that day again and again...
...doesn't it hurt more?
Which events?
I'm talking about that explosion...
What explosion?
What's that?
Although not confirmed by authorities, news have broken that besides...
...the twin towers another airplane hit the Pentagon in a similar way...
...and that still another hit the ground near Pennsylvania.
America, which has been a target to various terrorist attacks in its history...
...faces such an atrocity for the first time...
O God, forgive us!
O God, forgive us!
Us? Why?
O God, forgive us!
O God, forgive us!
Yusuf!
Going somewhere?
Yusuf!
I've brought you something to eat...
O God, please forgive us! O God, forgive us!
Help me!
Please help me!
It is too hot in here...
Please, help!
Please help!
It's too hot here.
PART 3: STIRRING TO ACTION WITH DIVINE LOVE
Chief...
Is everything OK? What are you up to?
Someone from Turkey linked to the September 11 case is in Beylerbeyi police station.
Do you still think we are innocent?
Do you see what it says?
What does this have to do with Islam?
What sort of Muslim would do such a thing?
Don't be so sure.
Excuse me?
So Muslims do such things as well and for God's sake.
Excuse me, sir. How can you say that?
How can such an atrocity be for God's sake?
Can it not?
Ok. Let's say you're right.
Then how will you explain what you have done?
Have you thought about it before?
What have I done?
Do you recognize this man?
No. How should I know him?
Sure?
I asked, are you sure?
I don't know him... I haven't seen him before!
Yusuf... your memory might be shaky after the explosion...
...but no matter how fast you run, you cannot run away from your conscience...
Yusuf!
What's happened?
Yusuf, talk to me. Are you OK?
Will you tell me what happened?
In order to tell... I gotta understand first...
You.
Is everything alright? Why have you come?
I decided to drop by...
There's a lot to get from the market...
you know, Gotta do some preparation...
What preparation?
Serious? Don't you remember?
Remember what, Zeynep? What are you talking about?
Contact his family;
Find out if he has the slightest link with an organization or a militant...
if he has ever been into anything...
I don't want anything to go wrong...
Yes sir...
Hey, man, you.
Bro. I don't know if you are aware but you are in the wrong grandstand.
You are even in the wrong game.
Excuse me but this is not a Beþiktaþ game.
Hey, I'm talking to you.
How's the game going?
What's happened? Did you think I'd leave you alone?
I have nothing to do with that militant!
You mean you don't remember anything?
In fact... I remember some things but...
But it feels good not to, doesn't it?
Denial is easier than admission...
I don't deny anything...
Then what do you admit?
You don't let anyone criticize God.
You don't let anyone criticize your religion or Muslims... or even yourself...
Then tell me Yusuf, thousands of people died there...
If everybody is innocent, who do you think is guilty?
All right. Now tells us your name, address and occupation for the record...
Where have you been?
I was at the game... at the Fener game.
You... Did you go to that game?
Yes, so what?
Nothing. Nothing really...
Why did you come at this hour?
I talked to your mother. They're coming tomorrow night...
You will meet them, won't you?
I will but... why is she coming?
I gotta go home. See you.
Who are you? Who are you?
How do you know me?!
Son!
Please don't go with them...
Go back in! come on! father! Go back in!
If it weren't for you...
Thank you...
Isa?
Isa.
Isa!
Isaa!
Go away! Beat it!
I told you to go away!
My God... What have I done!
What have I done!
PART 4: IDEAL MAN
It's all my fault...
It all happened because of me. all of it.
What are you going to do now?
O God, forgive us!
O God, forgive us!
I... I'm going to make a confession.
Chief, someone from Turkey linked to the...
...September 11 case is in Beylerbeyi police station.
All right. Now tells us your name, address, and occupation for the record...
Doc, are you OK?
What's this?
AFGHAN CIVIL WAR
Does anyone know how long is it since the war started?
or how many died?
how many children are left without a family.
Does anyone know?
I hadn't known...
An ember burns where it falls.
If so, what difference do we have from dry wood waiting for its turn?
Dad... Dad... Please don't die!
Daaaad! Somebody help.
Please help. My father is dying...
Father. Father, don't die.
Please don't die. Please help, help, my father is dying!
Son, I'm asking you...
What's your name, address, and occupation.
Why won't you answer?
Everything...
...started four years ago.
Maybe five.
ISTANBUL MARCH 1996
One day they ask Mawlana.
They say...
...at every opportunity you talk about Shams...
...how you benefited from him.
But even before Shams you were the most learned person all around here;
You were the mentor of Sultans.
What can someone like you get from Shams?
The patron saint answers them sorrowfully.
In the past, he says.
In the past when I was cold, I used to take a blanket over me and get warm.
But Shams taught me something.
If there is one person in the world who is cold...
...you do not have the right to get warm.
I used to drink a bowl of soup, and I was satisfied.
But now...
...I cannot take pleasure from eating any dish.
Because I know...
...there are hungry people all over the world.
What you call man...
...he should not be like fruit on a branch but like a limb on the body.
If you were an apple, you wouldn't mind whether the one next to you were picked.
But if you were a hand and a thorn pricked on a leg...
...you would feel the pain and become one fist.
Those living there need help too.
Everywhere people are dying, killing, moaning.
Something needs to be done.
But what do we do, how do we do; we couldn't come up with an answer...
If you have a bowl of soup here and there are hungry people there...
If you have a handkerchief and there are tearful people there.
If you have an ounce of conscience in you and there are people who go astray there.
Tell me for God's sake, what does this have to do with the distance?
If your hand cannot reach...
...if your voice is not heard...
...if your breath cannot get there...
...or if you are not burned by the same fire...
...you will stand up and go where the fire rages!
Sir.
How's this going to happen?
We are only a handful of people here.
There maybe a thousand people who leads others astray.
And it's not only there.
It is as if the world is galloping towards a storm.
I mean. What I mean is...
By ourselves...
By ourselves, are we going to save the world?
Yes, Yusuf.
At least we are going to struggle for that end.
You know, they say if a butterfly flutters its wings right here...
...it might cause a storm in the Atlantic.
With those tiny wings.
In fact, every one of us...
...each Muslim. is like a butterfly.
But with a difference.
Our butterfly does not cause storms.
It opens its delicate wings and stands up against storms.
AFGHANISTAN JULY 14, 1996
It's OK now; we can separate here.
Each of us will take a side street.
OK doc, Let's not waste time and separate now;
- Then may God help us. - Amen...
Hello.
My name is Yusuf. I'm a teacher.
I'm from Turkey, I mean we are.
We have a center downtown. We opened it a short while ago.
Besides medical help, we serve food regularly.
What's more, we give various courses for students of every age group.
If you need help...
...or have such a child, we can help.
Well I'd better tell again...
If I just disturbed you...
Right here.
Excuse me?
Weren't you just talking about helping?
I hope you get well soon.
I'll tell my friends right away and take you by car
Not that one, the other...
Dad, what's happening?
Son, Yusuf is a teacher. He's come from Turkey!
They've opened a place.
They are helping those who want to go to university.
Get ready and go take a look, uh?
But dad, I gotta look after my elder brother...
I know, son. I'm here anyway...
Go get ready. Come on. come on.
Well, I wonder.
What's your son's name?
His name? It's not important at all.
I call him "hope".
He is my hope.
Our hope.
Sixteen of us came here.
There isn't too many of us.
But still we have a doctor, a nurse, a cook, teachers and whoever else you might need.
It hasn't been long since we opened the place...
...but every day more people come and see.
We even have students your age.
Now I...
Please excuse me, will you? Just for a sec...
Isa...
What were we talking about?
Oh, yes. I heard that It's been some time since you finished high school.
If you are thinking about going to university, we can help you here.
Well, I... okay. I'll think about what you said...
but now I gotta go back home;
my elder brother's sick; I may need to take him to the doctor.
I'm ready.
You are welcome...
Shall we go right away?
Isa is a doctor.
I just told him about your brother;
It is very kind of him to come right away with his kit.
Come on, let's not waste time.
Excuse me what's your name again?
"Hope"
Hope?
At least, that's what his father calls him.
Much blood is shed, brother Yusuf.
You know, we are not Afghan but it is like this here...
...maybe our region will be so one day.
Has it been long since you came here?
Uh, not long but it's been a while...
You said he had a problem with his stomach...
...but I think the real problem is down at the intestines.
I gave him some medicine.
It will relieve him for a while.
I'd say we take him to the hospital tomorrow and do some tests.
We can come to a more definitive conclusion then.
Thank you doctor. God bless you.
You're always doing this.
Don't you have respect for art?
Let's assume you don't, but don't you respect artists?
All my masterpieces have become cold, ice cold.
Come for dinner, come on.
I'll tell you something but no offence all right?
Now look at these and then at the others...
For God's sake, isn't there a world of difference between them?
We are in fact a family of moderate means...
As I said this is not our real home.
My wife and kids are in our hometown.
If you ask why we are here.
As a matter of fact, that's the whole problem...
but I don't know how to put this...
This son of mine...
he is the third of my seven children.
He has always wanted to be a teacher.
But when his brother developed this disease...
...he started spending most of his time with him.
So he lost both his chance...
...for university and his teaching ambition...
On top of all these, when those men topped him...
which men?
The men from the organization...
El Qaeda...
I don't know how but they somehow duped him and now they will never let him go.
Back in hometown I did my best to stop them.
Once they saw that it did not work, they said to him...
...there was such a very pious doctor in Afghanistan.
Only he could heal you brother.
So he wouldn't not listen to whatever I said, and brought his brother here.
And sure, you with them...
I thought I could stop him from seeing them, little, though...
But for every meeting back in hometown, they started meeting maybe five times...
Even today they were going to take Hope...
...on the pretext of taking his brother to the doctor.
Wait a minute...
Is that the reason why you pulled me in that way...
...and then sent hope here with me?
I know it was weird but please excuse me for that.
I agreed to come here for him. to keep Hope away from them.
All I mean is...
...that I am powerless to do anything.
but know you are here.
For God's sake, do whatever it takes to save my son from their hands.
For God's sake.
Let go of me!
I tell you let me go!
Don't let go of him.
Or he'll beat us both...
Let go of me! I tell you let me go! Let go of me!
Hey, guys, what's happening here?
guys!
Esad?
Esad, Esad, stop. Calm down... Calm down.
Tell me handsome boy, what happened?
Those men. Those two.
While we were coming here, they teased us.
They told stupid things about this place and the teachers.
Then I when I then said that I will be like my teachers.
They all swore at us, sir.
And you couldn't hold back and attacked them, right?
Sure I did, sir. Was it a mistake?
No. It isn't your fault but mine...
I wouldn't have attacked those men.
but if I were a good teacher, you wouldn't have either...
God bless you for everything.
I hope we'll meet again.
Inshallah...
Yusuf.
Esad?
- Sir, can I ask you something? - Sure, ask.
You... You won't expel me from school, will you?
If you do, my mother will grieve for that
Please don't expel me.
I promise I won't do it again. I promise sir...
Come over here.
Look I wasn't just angry but I will get soon.
Have you ever seen us expel anyone?
Did you forget that we came here for you.
We opened this place for you.
Who are we going to expel you from your place?
Come on, first go wash your face, then go directly to your class, OK?
- Can I ask you something too? - Sure
When... can I start coming here?
Do we now understand everything about the trapezoid?
What was the trick?
In order not to be tricked in trapezoid questions...
...we draw either a vertical or a horizontal line...
Bon appetit!
What are these?
You tell me first.
Do you still want to be a teacher?
Did my father tell you?
He thinks I'll be a great man one day, doesn't he?
What do you think?
I don't know. I mean yes.
I've wanted to be teacher since I was a child.
In my hometown teachers were rare.
Maybe that was the reason.
When I said I would be a teacher...
...my father considered me to be the hope of the family and the village.
The more he called me hope, the more I wanted to be a teacher.
Yes. Now we can come back to the answer to the previous question.
These are flyers from some universities.
All in different countries...
...and if you want you can study there.
Me? I think you are kidding.
Look, Hope...
if you are going to be a teacher, you have to be the best.
You know why.
There isn't many other 'hopes' like you back in your hometown.
But I don't know if I will make a good teacher.
Come on, your tea is getting cold.
Open your shirt...
Take a deep breath, deep breath...
Breathe in, breathe out.
Aha he's right there...
Here is the situation.
Esad needs some help with some classes.
You know there aren't enough of us.
The friends cannot see to everything.
And I thought if you work with Esad...
...for a few hours every day it will be good for him.
And you can see how well you can teach...
So what do you say?
Ah, dear aunt are you here?
Come and meet your son's new teacher.
Please, stop. What are you doing?
God bless you. God bless you all.
Don't look at me;
She clasped my hands like that too when we first met.
Why?
She did not say anything and I didn't ask.
Children! Come tomorrow after school...
...and we can check the papers together, OK?
Ok sir.
Aha, Hope. I was coming to you.
Something must be happening again. I hope it will turn out well.
Come on!
You gotta make a choice now.
If you say you will study abroad...
...he will immediately send us admission forms.
Who is this? A former student of yours?
Yes. He's still studying in the United States.
So what do you say?
Sir. I mean, you know better.
Can I make it out there, I don't know. But...
Get out of the way, get out!
Who is the owner of this place?
What do you want?
Nothing... We just came to see what you are up to...
From what we've heard we understand you are filling...
...the children's brains with nonsense.
Is this true?
If you heard it that way, you heard it wrong.
Here children are taught English and school subjects.
And nobody is forced to attend.
Listen to me.
Children here do not need such ridiculous things...
...do you understand that?
What do they need then?!
Have I seen you before?
Anyway. Listen to me carefully now.
I don't want any places like this around here...
I'll come back again soon...
If you are still in the same path.
Aha...
What are you doing here? I was...
Leave these people alone.
Even if you banish them, we won't let them go.
What the hell does this mean?
Who are you people?
So you all protect them? Huh?
Yes...
You preferred the mountains and stay there.
But if you come down to town, you'll find us here.
You'd better not go at this late hour.
No, no, I'd better go.
My father and brother we're talking in the...
...morning about both going back home.
I should go and talk to them.
Why do they want to go back?
My bother has gotten quite well thanks to your efforts.
Well, I was the real problem.
When my father saw that I was not leaving this place...
...he decided to go now that he is no longer worried.
But I think they should stay some more.
Or I'll keep thinking about my brother.
Very well, hope. Good for you.
I'll come in the morning too and we can talk together.
Who is this?
Who are you? Show your face.
My mother has entrusted my brother in you, take good care of him.
If he comes after me too. I swear you'll pay for that.
Who is your brother?
Esad...
AFGHANISTAN AUGUST 7, 1998
Sir, called for me?
Yes, come over here Hope.
Can you take the trouble to mail this on your way home?
Sure, I'll do it...
Wow, Are you sending it to America?
Not me, you are sending it.
It looks I am. So what am I sending?
Do you need to know everything...
Doc? What's happened?
No official announcement has yet been made, however, it is certain that.
The United States is in grief due to the terrorist attacks...
...on the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The simultaneous attacks killed tens of people...
...and Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for both acts.
New information comes in from the scenes of both explosions...
...and the videos lay bare the extent of the tragedy.
Why are you crying?
Why are you crying?
While my religion says...
...killing one innocent person is like killing all humanity...
...today...
...some murderer killed people allegedly for God's sake...
women...
...children, innocent people.
Think of yourself in their shoes or in their families' shoes.
What's more. No one had ever told them of Allah.
And now, even if we wish to, we can't tell.
Neither the deceased nor the survivors.
Now tell me. How can I not cry?
Osama, Osama, Osama!
Sir, I could easily mail it, it's on my way.
That's OK, I'll get some fresh air...
Osama, Osama, Osama...
Osama gave them all a lesson!
Now they will fear, not the Muslims!
The entire world saw the Muslims' power!
May God keep Osama our leader.
May God increase his power...
May God make us one of Laden's soldiers.
May God save us from savages like Laden!
What did you just say?
I asked you. What did you just say?
In fact I feel like saying...
..."God damn him" but.
He who has been this cruel does not need any more curse.
May God protect us from savages like Laden.
May God give him reason and conscience, mercy!
Shut up! Don't you say another word!
No, I will talk!
If we hadn't kept silent from the very beginning...
...they would never be able to speak!
They could've dared none of this!
They wouldn't be able to make Islam an instrument to your interests!
For this reason, we cannot repair the damage...
...Laden's given to Islam even if we work for years.
May God protect us from savages like Laden!
Shut up! Shut up!
May God protect us from those like Laden!
May God protect us from those like Laden!
May God protect us from those like Laden!
May God protect us from those like Laden!
Our delicate butterfly opens its wings...
...and stands up against storms...
May God protect us from those like Laden!
May God protect us from those like Laden!
What's happening there?!
May God protect us from those like Laden!
May God protect us from those like Laden!
May God protect us from those like Laden!
May God protect us from those like Laden!
AFGHANISTAN AUGUST20, 1998
Do you understand now?
If you don't, let's do it again.
No need for that.
I got it... really.
Dad? What's wrong?
Wait, wait. Nothing to worry about;
An envelope has arrived for you;
When your father couldn't understand what is it...
...he brought it here immediately.
Take it.
What's in it?
It comes from the USA.
Good but I wasn't expecting anything from there...
So? What do you say?
I don't know. It feels like a dream. I mean.
Can I really study in America?
A former student of mine sent these forms.
At first, he'd talked like you do.
He's doing his master's this year.
Can he manage it there all by himself?
Who said he'd be on his own? His friends are going along too.
Which friends?
I don't know. I haven't met them yet.
Look, there are five forms here.
One is yours.
You can give the rest to your friends who you trust...
...and who really want to study.
We still have enough time.
Mum!
Brother Hope is going to America!
I'm sorry sir.
No problem, handsome boy. Are you alright?
Son, are you really going?
We'll see, it's not certain yet.
Go, son, go. Just make sure you return...
Esad? What's happened? Who is he?
Esad?
He is my son.
Mum.
Hello...
My name's Yusuf.
Halit...
Why did you run away like that?
I... came to see Esad.
I'd come before.
But I always looked from afar.
This time, I said to myself, I'll go and talk.
but after all these years. when I saw my mother...
How's Esad?
Good... Very good...
You are their only problem...
All these years why haven't you ever visited them?
How could I? I didn't have the courage.
My mother begged me not to join them down on her knees.
I didn't listen.
What could I said to them after all these years?
That you regret everything...
How do you know I regret?
If you are ashamed, it means you are regretful...
It's too late now to regret.
If you are alive, it's never too late...
He's gone, hasn't he?
He's gone but he said hello to you.
Are you for real?
What else did he say?
Halit may return home permanently tomorrow.
He didn't say he would, but he will at least think about it.
Who knows.
He might be waiting for you here when you come tomorrow.
He isn't here yet...
He is dead...
Somebody came in the morning...
A member of the organization...
He said he was a friend of his...
He said...
He said... Your son is dead.
He... became a martyr... he said...
But I know...
my son died for nothing.
If Esad stayed home today?
We've never found out who killed his father.
Should anyone ask...
Tell them Osama killed Esad's brother.
I hold responsible not the one who burned the fire...
...but the one who pushed my son into it...
Brother?
Sir.
These are the friends we talked about yesterday...
Remember, to study abroad.
Hope, I'll take Esad and his mother to their home and then come back.
I'll meet you soon. Ok?
Hello...
What do you want?
Wait a minute, wait a minute. Stop. Stop.
Did you not go that day?
Why?
I hadn't gone there before either;
I never went to that house.
I never went in.
We can separate here...
OK doc, Let's not waste time and separate now;
Then may God help us.
You mean you had never gone there until then?
You did not take the militant to where you called the center?
You mean you made all this up?
What was that? Huh?
Doctor Isa and others and the center?
Did make up all these?
They all existed.
Ýsa, Tarýk, Arif.
They are all gone.
What about the boy called Esad? His brother and mother?
They were all there...
Esad...
His mother...
His brother...
Only I was missing...
and him...
Hope...
I didn't go.
but Isa and others came over at times.
They told me. I... just listened.
Are you kidding me?
All this. not going there, blah-blah.
Is it crime?
You haven't done anything, have you?
In many instances man is not responsible for what he has done...
but for what he hasn't.
AFGHANISTAN, JULY 1996 Come on, get ready. We are going to the camp.
The doc's come. He is gonna see your brother.
No need for another exam.
He goes and comes in vain.
The doctor has had no use.
I think your father considers doc to be a prophet.
Can anyone get well with a single touch? Huh?
Give a hand and carry this to the car.
You come with me.
Doc will do what's to be done.
What do you think?
Each will become a lion.
Necip! Come over here...
Look at this man carefully.
He's a very important person.
He just came from abroad.
He'll go back in a few days.
He directs our affairs there.
I can't remember this brother; what's his name?
His name?
It's not important. I call him "Hero"
Oh, no. How can a hero be afraid of an exploding rifle?
Come on stand up...
Come with me.
Take it, it won't harm you.
Don't be afraid.
No thanks...
I insist you take it. You won't believe, but guns made me a man.
If I hadn't taken one in my hands...
...I wouldn't be able to keep my head straight...
Shoot once. If you don't like it I'll take it back.
Yes, that's it. Show yourself.
You'll make it. Keep trying.
You'll make it. One more. Come on.
Aha, again.
You made it! Bully for you!
There they come.
Where have you been?
Was just around.
How are you?
He'll be fine. Soon he won't need to come and go.
- Will he, doctor? - Yeah.
If he eats only a little better, he'll be as strong as a lion.
We'd better get going.
My father might get worried.
Ok. They'll can take your brother, you can stay here.
No, I should go as well.
I'll come again anyway.
So be it, hero.
How are you? A little better?
- Where have you been all day? - I strolled around.
What did you do all day?
Nothing. What we always do.
They came again. Those men.
What happened?
Why don't you speak? Brother?
They came a few hours ago.
The men... The militants.
Really? Will they come again?
I hope they never can.
Father, what harm did they do to you?
Who else but them has given anything to us...
...without expecting a return?
Huh, who has? Without a return?
They have you in return. Isn't that enough?
Son... Don't go with them, please...
He doesn't want you to come with us, does he?
In fact, not exactly like that...
So be it. But remember.
if you have a long way to go, you should carry light load.
I made this for you.
It just came up when I was killing time.
Who's waiting for me, I'm curious.
Be patient, you'll soon learn.
Pick them...
...and you'll learn to be more careful.
Here are the ones waiting for you.
You used to have ambitions to be a teacher...
...and I said if that's so he should teach something useful.
Shouldn't you?
I'd better go home now.
My father keeps complaining.
You suffer too much for your father and brother.
They don't have anyone else here, that's why.
Otherwise, they wouldn't pester me.
Well, if that's so, let them go to their hometown.
You are gonna be an important man, Hero.
The ignorant cannot understand you.
Nobody, surely not father or brother...
...can understand a lion like you.
Aren't you asleep yet?
When you are there, I can never sleep.
Come on, dad... Is it the same problem again, father?
The same problem, yes, Hope.
Hope. For God's sake stop being stubborn.
Come let's go back home.
Look at your brother. He's become worse, not better.
Don't you see it?
Those guys are no good neither for you nor for your brother.
Enough. I'm sick of all this.
Whether you like it or not, I trust them, that's all.
So you started shouting at your father?
Did they teach you this?
Now that you say so, it's over.
Get packed.
We are going back to hometown all together tomorrow.
You hear me? We are leaving this place tomorrow.
No, dad.
Not me, only you two are leaving.
Osama Bin Laden, in a statement he sent a television channel...
AFGHANISTAN, MAY 12, 1998 ...in the United States, has threatened the United States...
...by declaring that a black day will come for the United States.
Yeah, that's the way. Now let those infidels fear!
We'll see their plight when they pay for what...
...they've done to our brothers and sisters.
Osama will make them pay, Huh?
By killing their children and women?
If someone beat you, you would go and beat his child? Huh?
Wow. Then you're as many as Osama.
AFGHANISTAN MAY 21, 1998
Did you watch Osama's talk?
What do you think?
I don't know. I didn't understand much of that.
Come on. say it.
You don't need to be hesitant.
In fact when you listen, you think he is right...
...but when you give it some thought.
What if civilians die too?
Hero, which war has ever spared civilians, huh?
Sir, Hero's father here...
My father?
Yea. At the entrance to the camp.
Son.
Welcome...
When did you come?
I'll tell you later, when we go home.
Oh no way.
Hero just came. We have things to talk about.
You can talk later, whatever you want to talk about.
Father...
How's your boy, your elder son? Gotten any better?
Much better than he was here, thanks God.
Take this money and get some medicine for him.
Come on take it.
We are not foreigners.
He'd better drink poison than take medicine with that.
Father, you are embarrassing me.
He is being considerate, and look what you are doing.
Are you not blaming the one who treats me...
...like a beggar but blaming your father for not accepting it?
I'm leaving now.
I'll be home, if you decide to come.
I'll wait until you come.
AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 7, 1998 Well done. You deserve it now.
Give it to me and take this.
Do you know who sent this for you?
Sheik Osama.
Heard of what's happened?
What?
You know what...
Whatever. I'm tired, I'll go to bed.
Hope...
I'll ask you only one thing...
Those events... All those innocent people dying...
Did you like it or not?
Son...
You'll say only one word...
Yes... or no...
What difference will it make?
If you say no, I'll have hope.
What if I say yes?
If you say yes... I'll consider you... dead...
AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 20, 1998 - Do you know what that is? - No.
Osama's place...
Now I'll give you an excellent present.
if you want, I can introduce you to Osama.
and today, actually now.
You may not find the chance again.
Tell me now. Yes or no?
You see, he called you by your name.
Even I couldn't have guessed him to treat you so highly.
So tell me.
Will you be a hero everybody talks about...
...or an ordinary man who talks about heroes.
How could I? I didn't have the courage.
My mother begged me not to join them down on her knees.
I didn't listen.
What could I said to them after all these years?
That you regret everything...
How do you know I regret?
If you are ashamed, it means you are regretful...
It's too late now to regret.
If you are alive, it's never too late...
Yo, Halit.
What've you been doing out here for two hours? Aren't you cold?
Well, if I had a blanket like this, I wouldn't feel cold either.
Actually, where did you find it?
Take it and keep it. It's yours.
I don't need it anymore.
What's our status?
Very few of the missiles hit the camp Casualties?
Die?
Few but we haven't checked everyone yet.
We only know of Halit.
Tell everyone that Osama is alive...
...and that Halit fought like d a lion to his martyrdom.
Are there many casualties?
Americans have lots of rockets but no brains...
The blockheads hit the mountains, not the camp.
Are these your friends?
Hello...
Hero told me a lot about you...
He told me you were brilliant. We'll see if he's right.
But first I'll ask you something.
How would you like...
...to fly a plane?
There's no direct flight from here to Afghanistan...
ISTANBUL, APRIL 1996 ...so we'll need to go indirectly.
Everybody needs to fill in the forms completely.
So we won't have any problems later.
When do we leave?
In ten days, at the latest.
Rasim, I see you are attending the meetings with your uniform on.
In all this rush, I was barely able to make it.
So you are going too, huh?
I don't know what difference a cook can make but...
He can make a lot, Rasim. A lot.
but you'd better not know.
Or you might start feeling superior to them...
Well? What would you say, Mr. Yusuf?
Will it be worth all the effort?
If God wills, it will, but. in the end we'll be swimming against the stream...
That's even better.
Swimming against the stream keeps one fit, Yusuf.
And in the middle of an endless sea you cannot...
...get to land whether you paddle or not, unless the wind blows.
But the wind helps only the one who paddles.
Son. Now you put us in such a situation that. tut-tut...
nothing comes out from what you tell or from what's in your file.
I mean I don't understand what makes you guilty.
If you are saying that you are guilty because you didn't go there.
For God's sake, you are only a teacher.
Were you going to change the way of the world with that?
To change the way of the world.
Do I need to be a terrorist above all else?
So you should've gone. Why didn't you?
Chief, can I have a word with you?
- Someone from the family? - She said she is his wife.
You said you wanted to see me.
Is Yusuf in?
- Yes, why? - Yusuf...
There are things you should know about him...
I'd wanted a complete file!
Yusuf... Son... look at me...
...but you should understand too...
Look. I understand you very well indeed...
That you wouldn't have been able to change everything...
...even if you'd gone to Afghanistan.
You just chose not to go.
It's so simple. Right?
But isn't it always so simple?
All good things flow along with life.
You choose either to be inside or outside.
In fact...
...man only chooses a path.
But you see every path opens somewhere else...
Listen to me. I was just with our leader.
He told me the mission of those five brothers.
And said.
that everybody should look at these five heroes carefully...
...because one day we'll be very proud of them...
Get ready... You're leaving tonight...
You'll continue your education abroad.
Leave all your belongings here including your weapons.
Take this. This is a present for you from Sheikh Osama.
So where are we going?
Where could it be? to America...
Really? Now?
That's the reason we called you at this hour.
Dad.
What's up? What's this?
Your brother's sent it.
He's bought some clothes for you.
He was going to come, if he could've got permission from work...
Now that he's recovered and started working...
...the rest isn't important at all.
Come on, we are going to pick up your friends too.
Esad, never ever forget what happened to your elder brother.
You'll be your family's hope.
Your family's and even all the country's.
Promise?
One day I'll return father...
I know, son. I know, my Hope...
Mr. Yusuf has gotten on the car...
Sir, you know, don't you?
All this happened thanks to tour efforts.
And know that.
I'll live like a hero and die a hero.
What fits you is to come after me.
I'll be waiting for you in paradise.
Son, don't do it...
We'd come for your brother, and he is fine now.
What has become of you?
Hope.
I'm begging you, don't go with them, son...
Hope.
Do you remember. when those people died...
...at the embassy, you asked me a question...
You asked me something. You remember, don't you?
Then listen to me carefully; you can now consider me dead...
but know that I'll be a very important person.
just like you've always wanted.
Son!
Please don't go with them... Son!
Father, go back in!
Come on! Father! Go back in!
Good evening, I'm sorry to disturb you.
My name's Isa.
We have a center downtown.
We opened it with friends from Turkey.
It's been open for two years. You might've heard about it.
We both serve food and give medical help...
if you have a child who goes to school...
...or one considering studying at university, we can help...
Where have you been to this day?
Excuse me?
Why didn't you come before?
Why are you so late?!
Why, tell me! Why?
Well... You are right but without enough workers...
Get out of here! Go away!
I'm telling you to get away!
NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
ISTANBUL APRIL 1996
Give us your blessing...
I do, you too...
Don't say that, I do...
Dear friends. Please everybody get on the bus; we are leaving.
Still no news?
No, sir...
Oh, look, he's coming.
Yusuf? Where's your stuff?
I... won't be able to come...
Forgive me...
Do you really not recall why you didn't go?
So... What then?
I mean, the result?
Son, it is impossible for us to do anything about you here.
You'd better...
You'd better go home and take a rest...
Come on.
They gave me this at the police station.
By the way, I'm sorry for your loss...
Oh, thanks God. Finally they let you free.
I was worried it could get out of control.
We are lucky they didn't let anyone else know.
Yusuf?
Come on honey, let's go home.
You should get changed before meeting your mother.
Don't worry, I haven't told her anything.
Zeynep.
Why is my mother coming?
And then that policeman.
Why did he say...
...he was sorry?
Yusuf, please.
I don't have any power left.
Please don't leave me on my own with this pain.
What are you talking about?
What's happened?
Do you know why your mother is coming tomorrow?
It's Bilal's traditional memorial.
What did you just say?
I'm pregnant, Yusuf. We're going to have a baby.
In such a situation. I can neither take Zeynep there.
nor leave her alone here. Please understand me.
Dad... When will we then go to the game?
in three weeks...
Let's go now...
But son, we got the tickets...
- Dad. - Yes dear...
Can I keep the tickets?
I left them in the workshop.
My uniform?
No, I left it there too but don't worry...
...I'll go there to clean the place; I'll get them both...
Sure, sure...
like you have been cleaning the workshop...
...and blowing glass in the last three weeks.
But I went there today, didn't I?
See me when I go again next week.
- What do you say, son? - Yes dad...
Look, look, look!
- Bilal, look! - Look son look.
Dad? You will wear Beþiktaþ uniform, won't you?
You are a Beþiktaþ fan.
I am going to Fener's match just because of you, son.
And if I wear Beþiktaþ uniform too, what do they do to me there?
Dad. me Fener uniform, you Beþiktaþ uniform...
Please.
Ok ok all right...
Bilaaal!
Who planted the bomb hasn't been found yet.
Anyway, what difference would it make?
Yusuf... Come on...
Mr. Isa must have come and be looking for us at the door now...
You go...
I'll join you soon...
I'm so very sorry, son...
It's all my fault...
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Man...
...feels a lot better when he faces his conscience, doesn't he?
You have known it since the beginning...
But why is it only you?
Why couldn't even I understand it?
Yusuf. I cannot know what you do not know.
But I can say what you can't...
Come on...
Don't keep Zeynep waiting...
Yusuf!
Brother.
I'm again so sorry...
Forgive me...
I tried to come before, but the work at the center. I couldn't...
I know, doc. I know.
You needn't have come, but thank you.
We haven't been able to meet with Yusuf for some time.
If I'm not mistaken...
...the last time I came was when the twin towers were attacked?
How is it there?
These days it's good, thanks God.
But America can attack any moment to hit Laden.
People say, "Laden was already the Americans' man...
September 11 was the Americans' job but who cares?
In fact...
...Americans might really have plan...
O God. Please forgive us!