Thursday, January 27, 2011

"The Turkish Series" will follow you!!!

There is a new fashion in Greece. Almost every T.V. channel has a “Turkish Series”. Yes, you heard it right. Actually, it started about 5 years ago with “Yabanci Damat”. The story had some similarities with what I had. A Greek guy and a Turkish girl gets married. There are thousand things happens around them including problems etc. (this part is not similar)

Every time I was flying to Thessaloniki airport, the passport control officer was making the same stupid joke: “Aaa! You are Nazli!” I could not tell him directly what I thought: “No, God`s sake!” So, I had a fake smile on my face till I got back my passport.

After a couple of years, we got married and I moved to Thessaloniki. Then, silence. No trace of Turkish series. Last year suddenly, “A Thousand and One Night” was on air. There was a huge success in Greece and I became “Sehrazat”. They named me after every lead actresses with a big dark eyes. This year they show 3 series at the same time thus they are confused how to call my name. :)

Simply Turkish series are full of drama. Poor beautiful girl, rich man, pregnancy, mother has a cancer, father dies because his daughter makes a child out of marriage bla bla bla. How about Greek series? Very simple. A beautiful girl with a beautiful guy. They meet up somehow, having an affair. She discovers he has another girl friend. The other girl tries to separate them and always a gay friend who does funny stuff. Ah! By the way, 80% of the episode happens to be in bed, hugging, kissing, having sex.

OK, I need to admit that I am not a T.V. person. I lost that habit while I lived in dormitory during university. 1000 girls in a same building and only “one” T.V. Since then, I prefer to do other things like reading a book, writing short stories (trying to write actually) or just simply horse around.

Well, I am sure you are wondering what is the big deal? Did you read any of Constantine Kavafis` poems? He has some amazing poems and one of them says:

The city will follow you. You will roam the same
streets. And you will age in the same neighborhoods;
in these same houses you will grow gray.

That is how I feel about it. I think “the city, the habits, the T.V. series” are following me!

Have a good day!

Day Opening - January 27