turkish → English transcript

This area you see is where the Yozgat Brewery was.

We did everything we could so it wouldn’t close, to keep the smokestack smoking.

How were people working there? I mean, everyone had money in their pockets.

People were happy. When there was no money, there was no happiness either. Nothing was left.

Within the story of Yozgat’s socioeconomic and cultural underdevelopment

when I researched it, I saw that there was a factory story.

There were villagers who said, "We won’t give barley to the Brewery." And they didn’t.

Yozgat is a conservative city. I’m an Ülkücü.

I said, God Almighty has granted my livelihood from the Brewery.

I put my children through school with the money I earned there.

Starting in '55, with the foundation laid in '65, opened in '72

by the 2000s, this is how we can see the story of its closure.

So it’s gotten to the point where the chimneys don’t smoke anymore.

Even while I’m still here, I’ve got goosebumps now. I’m shocked, seriously.

I’m like, “Where am I?” It’s turned into hell. This is unbelievable, seriously.