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İlyas Usta, “What is true is
to learn. It doesn’t matter where you learn from. It is
not important where you learn from and how you learn,
and even whether or not you have a diploma, or what you
know. Important is what you do.”, Arkadaş Islıkları
“Eighty percent of people
look at how you say something rather than what you say
…”Avare Yıllar
“Where are your earrings?” “Your grand mother got them
back. They say that they borrowed them from their
neighbors. They did it just to honor the name of your
father and just as a show against all the people around
us, be they enemies or friends. Take it easy my dear
husband” she said. “Everybody chews gums, but gypsies
take a taste out of it.” We went on taking a taste out
of life …”, Avare Yıllar
“He gazed at İstanbul
through his wet eyelashes after midnight. It was a
gorgeous and magnificent city indeed. It was like
glorious flowers by cliffs. It would attract people
towards itself, and then watch them as they fall down
the cliff”, Kötü Yol
“Moon was rising while
losing its redness. It was escaping into the dark skies,
looking icy cold and glittering. A silver path on the
sea was flowing like a stream of light in the deep dark
waters …”, Sokakların Çocuğu
“These lands existed on
earth when there was no human-invented law, and the
deeds of this invented law. These lands that existed on
earth before men were probably far more cheerful and
healthier than they are now. Strong winds would blow
over these lands in the past, too. They would bring and
spread seeds of unknown lands over these cheerful and
healthy lands, and cheerful and healthy lands would
embrace them in return. They would embrace them tight to
germinate them by the help of the rain and the sun.
Germinated seeds would come out of the earth, grow tall,
give fruit and make the earth a table of happy brothers
and sisters.”, Kanlı Topraklar
“Philosophizing? What does
it mean? What happens when you do it? It is like
stringing beads of cigarette smog!...”, Kanlı
Topraklar
“Men should exist on earth
to give his life for other men, or otherwise, they
shouldn’t crowd the world …”, Bereketli Topraklar
Üzerinde
“Realism is not merely to reflect the society that we
live in. The true realism and true patriotism are to see
the defects of your society, and to reflect on where
they come from in order to get rid of them. Patriotism
is to love the people of your country or, in other
words, to ensure a good life for them. It is also to
fight those who try to prevent this.”, Bir Filiz
Vardı
THE KOC SCHOOL STUDIENTS WORDS
ABOUT ORHAN KEMAL
“I have noticed in the museum that Orhan
Kemal was interested in history, and especially in the
history of Fenerbahçe. I have learned that he never
became rich; on the contrary, he was really poor when he
was coming to İstanbul from Adana. I have been highly
impressed of the fact that he never quit writing and
that he used a nickname as a writer. I have gained a
thoroughly new understandin of Orhan Kemal.”
Mehveş Uzun
“Orhan Kemal, who was a master of touching human
spirit deep inside, left an unerasable trace in Turkish
literature with his undying character “Murtaza”. This
character, which has been played several times in movies
and dramas since the day it was written, reflects the
complex nature of human, depicted with black humor.
Murtaza’s story is the sad comedy of the individual, who
is boxed up between authority and correctness, who gets
stuck in even more insolvable situations in the struggle
to make no concessions on correctness, and who becomes
even more distant from understanding human beings …”
a Critic About “Murtaza”
“Orhan Kemal was one of the millions who lived on
this land and he was deeply affected by what he lived
here just like other people.”
İrem Aksoy
“I have heard about many authors; but now I
understand that all what I knew was really limited. I
learned a lot of names, but I didn’t know anything about
the undying master of Turkish literature. I have gotten
to know Orhan Kemal for the first time; I have learned
about his art works, his writing technique and his
personality. What a passion hidden behind little words!
What a pure realism in the way he says things! These are
just the two of countless features that made him
unforgettable. And, what makes him so special is his
love for children and humans.”
Verda Uyar
“Towards the end of one of his stories, Orhan Kemal
says: ‘Everybody chews gums, but gypsies take a taste
out of it.’ This shows that he was a strong observer of
human behaviors, as it is not easy to do it for average
eyes.”
Kıvanç Şengün
What made Orhan Kemal this successful is that he
belonged to the society he lived in. He didn’t write
about the people he didn’t know. Orhan Kemal’s thoughts
are snapshots from real life. This is why he wrote them
as they were; as painful as they were. His stories would
be less heart-wrenching if he wrote about the things and
humans that he didn’t know personally.
Deniz Arıtürk
As we have learned from his son; Orhan Kemal would
always seek something good in everything. He would hide
hope in things. He would combine the hurting nature of
realism with hope. He would say “Let’s hope that dark
days do not end up dark.”
Zeynep Çetindağ
Notwithstanding their heart-wrenching nature, Orhan
Kemal’s stories are reality stories, and Orhan Kemal is
realistic although he sometimes makes us feel upset with
the Unhappy Ends of his stories.
Leyla Ateş
We can say that Orhan Kemal’s messages and
characters are connected with his own life. The author
produced realistic literature works based on his own
experiences.
İpek Elmacıoğlu
The political party- which his father was a member
of- was closed in his childhood, and this caused him
change his living place frequently. This is why he got
to know new people, and discovered different worlds. It
is of no doubt that one has to be a strong observer and
a joe public in order to become a good writer. We
wouldn’t have the chance to have a realistic and
sociable writer like Orhan Kemal if he lived at rich
places, away from these strata of the society.
İpek Mert
As he believed in justice on earth, he put a message
at the end of his stories. He could look at the lives of
poor people objectively, as his own economic condition
was poor. I wish Orhan Kemal were still alive and could
see that there are students who believe in the world
that he dreamed of.
Sena Öktem
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