Istanbul: Aydin a real person
Istanbul: Aydin a real person
[SinglePic not found]Television programmes or television in general often produces characters far from touch or reality, often a personality portrayed on screen is not found in the real world. For anyone who has read anything I’ve wrote about on here in the past few months will know I became addicted to a Turkish entertainment programme called “Var Misin Yok Musun”.The attraction to me that it revolved around real people and a bunch of football fans.
However there is one particular show in the last season that turned me to this program, my wife had watched it from day one and since I had moved here I only took notice in small doses. This particular show involved a guy from the Istanbul ,he worked in Besiktas which is only a 20 minute Dolmus journey away from home. Subsequently I discovered he actually lived very close to Besiktas, during the show I watched him go through the many emotions that contestants frequently experience but on this occasion this guy seemed at ease and in fact completely down to earth throughout . Describing his background of working at a produce market ,dragging himself out of bed at the crack of dawn to collect his stock and a real person doing a real days graft ,that’s not to say the millions of people living here don’t do the same. But this is TV Istanbul, Turkey and no pre scripted descriptions what you see and what you here is real.
Aydin was the one contestant I didn’t forget for a number of reasons but one reason he stood out, he had one hand on the pot of gold but needed two hands on it to own it. When he lost it all he was a broken man unashamedly on national TV here in Turkey,and from then on I wanted to meet this guy to shake his hand.
[SinglePic not found]So one Saturday morning my wife mentions to me to go to Besiktas to buy some fish, straight away I remembered this guy Aydin worked at Besiktas market, cunningly I dropped a hint to my wife that perhaps we could go and find this guy Aydin. She looked hesitant at first but I saw her curiosity shine. The market at Besiktas a place I can’t forget because I first had seen it opposite the place I got married .So off we went in search of this guy Aydin ,Besiktas has usual on a Saturday afternoon is packed and probably adding to the crowds is the November day with the surprising temperature of 25c reaching 27c in other parts of the city ,quite strange after the previous weekends 10c .
It didn’t take long for us to find him and strangely it was as if he was expecting us , as we approached his stall he was already smiling it was really strange but comforting, was he used to it ? .Was he a star in his own right who knows. My wife and he spoke like they had known each other for years, I was really shocked by this then Aydin shoved his phone in my hand and it was another contestant asking us to hang around and meet up, he goes by the name of Tony Montana, yes that guy who has the dodgy English accent and wears a Che Guevara cap .Aydin then offering that Turkish politeness of getting us CAY or food, throughout I couldn’t stop smiling and neither could he. As we stood there customers coming to the stall giving him banter over his appearance on the show .Well we could have chatted all day but he was working and we were fish shopping we exchanged numbers chatted a bit more .Couldn’t wait for Mr Montana (not sure if it is his real name) time was ticking and not for wanting get stuck in the exodus of Besiktas.
The good news is the program returns in January 2010 and for him he was selected to be a regular on the show,we hope to go out with him and his wife in the near future and a compliment to my life in Istanbul would be going to watch the show live in the audience .This guy Aydin is not a TV star but a guy who works in a produce market,yet because of is shear down to earth appearance and he never stops smiling I just had to meet him but not sympathize or patronize him but to compliment him.
Aydin thanks you made our day …..
