turkish → English transcript

He calls us and asks us for directions. That's how we worked, you know. For us there's no notion of night or day, summer or winter. Family, leave — "let me take a leave," they say. He already says you're on leave every day.

Did a dialogue like that happen, for example?

Of course. Just wait until you get there. You're already on leave anyway.

We're lucky.

He says you're constantly going here and there. He counts it as being on leave, basically. Am I making myself clear?

The president is the kind of person who has truly devoted himself to this country. He has neglected everything for its sake. He doesn't like comfort and dislikes those who prefer to be comfortable.

If you work for him, I mean, you'll be like that, you know. If we could do even half of what he did, that would be a great success.

Honestly, President Erdoğan can be criticized in every way, but you can't call him lazy, I mean. Because I'm not that hardworking a person in my life. I rush around from place to place at an incredible pace.

My question is, what is the motivation behind you doing these things?

You can see us.

Just now, when they came in, they'd had their hair done so nicely. Then, as they were coming in, they said to me, "Don't you ever get tired?"

And I replied, "Would I ever get tired when I see you?"

Subtitles: M.K.