Noontime in Yenisehir by Sevgi Soysal

Author:Sevgi Soysal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Milet Publishing
Published: 2016-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

Olcay and Ali

After that day, Ali and Doğan became inseparable. They always went to university together, and whenever there was any political uproar, they would go to Ali’s place and drink tea and debate until morning. Ali didn’t much care for going to Doğan’s house. He thought it better that Doğan come over to his. Olcay too had been over to Ali’s a few times. Mevhibe Hanım didn’t approve of Doğan’s friendship with Ali. She held Ali responsible for the unpalatable changes she saw in Doğan. And so she got really angry when she found out that Olcay had also been over to Ali’s. Olcay immediately took a liking to Ali. Doğan had found his sister’s fondness for Ali disturbing, but had avoided thinking about the reasons why. Perhaps it was some kind of extension of the jealousy of a child who didn’t want to hand his toy over to his sibling. But Ali quickly caught on, had understood that it made Doğan uneasy, and so he stopped telling him to bring the bacı along with him. Olcay was upset with both Doğan and Ali for leaving her out of their friendship and discussions, and frequently accused them of having “feudal” mindsets. Whenever Doğan would start to criticize Olcay, the latter would tell her brother that he had no right to do so, because just as he made no effort to further her progress, he completely left her out of everything that was going on.

“You need to find your own way!” Doğan had told her.

“Fine, if everyone’s to find their own way, and those who claim to know what’s happening and to try to change things bear no responsibility towards those who don’t know, then you’re right. But anyone who thinks that way hardly has the right to criticize others.”

A short while later, Olcay too became part of Doğan and Ali’s friendship.

Ali was fond of Olcay’s presence, but it also made him nervous. He felt that Olcay was in awe of him, unnecessarily so, and that she would never be able to evaluate him in a completely realistic way. One day, he shared this concern with Olcay: “You’re friends with me just so you can oppose the things around you which bother you, and which you oppose anyway, that much more. You think that just by liking people like me, you achieve some sort of change within yourself. All kinds of little behaviors of mine, which couldn’t possibly be otherwise anyway, inspire some sort of awe in you. It bothers me to have my natural behavior held in such high esteem, because these aren’t skills, they’re just the result of the conditions under which I’ve been raised. And you also make too much of the fact that I come from a working class family, whereas that too is no skill of mine. If we’re to have a healthy relationship, you need to stop seeing me in the light of your falsely acquired complexes. You need to judge me outside of that, just me, plain and simple, according to my qualities which I myself am responsible for.

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