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THINKING AND SMILING

Who is Keleş Efendi?

Well, Keleş Efendi is a bit of a madman, a bit of a saint, and a bit of a simpleton. He has a touch of Bektashi, a touch of Nasreddin Hodja, and a touch of Teyo Pehlivan in him.

He is a retired court clerk. He works as a petition writer in front of the courthouse. He is over eighty years old.

He dresses very well. With his snow-white thick hair, snow-white handlebar mustache, and gold-rimmed glasses, he looks exactly like a statesman. 

In fact, he always carries himself with the poise of a statesman. 

But if he gets angry, it is impossible to hold his tongue, his temper, or his hands.

You also know the famous Teyo Pehlivan. 

Teyo Pehlivan makes up tall tales and makes himself the hero of those stories. In other words, he constantly produces white lies. But every lie implicitly tells a truth. He both makes you laugh and makes you think.

One day, Keleş Efendi sees Teyo Pehlivan in his dream.

 Teyo Pehlivan says to him:

- Hey Keleş, I have now entered your soul. From now on, you will act according to my principles. (Teyo passed away years ago)

That Keleş Efendi works as a petition writer in front of the courthouse. He has deep legal knowledge! And his political knowledge is even more advanced!  

A politician, they say, should see ahead. But Keleş Efendi saw further, even further than that. 

And his knowledge of economics? That was even more formidable. 

In an instant, he would lower inflation and kickstart affordability. 

In other words, Keleş Efendi was, in a sense, an economic genius! 

His traits were not limited to this. He was also a fierce revolutionary at the same time. 

However, after the September 12, 1980 coup, he became a liberal.

Liberalism didn't satisfy him. He would say, "I couldn't get any results from this liberalism." 

This time, he became both a socialist and a liberal. (Whatever that means) 

After all, liberals were getting rich. They had many clients. Aren't all the wealthy classes liberal anyway? Why shouldn't Keleş Efendi be a liberal! He also wanted to be part of the wealthy class. He was going to change his class and become rich, do you understand now!

He wanted to hold onto the branch of liberalism, but the branch was too high for him. He could only be a worker for the capitalist class, and even then, no one would even hire him as a worker. 

When this Mr. Keleş Efendi became a liberal, the three or five petition jobs he received a day stopped coming. Furthermore, his old revolutionary friends called him "Turncoat Keleş." Not content with that, they gave him another nickname: "'Not enough but yes' Keleş." 

Keleş Efendi thought long and hard, but he couldn't give up on liberalism. Look, all the parties are liberal, the vast majority of intellectuals are liberal! Why shouldn't he be liberal! Upon this, he decided to be both a socialist and a liberal.

He saw that the principles of this new socialism were very different from his old revolutionary days.

The principles of his new ideology are as follows:

Not enough but yes.

The word "class" is forbidden. Not in the laws, but in the invisible laws of capitalism.

The rich will get richer, and then the poor will get rich. 

The market solves everything.

You will defend LGBT.

You will be pro-American.

When you are pro-American, you will support every action of the PKK. Then you will name all of this "freedom," but you will completely forget the economic foundations and budgets of freedoms and rights.

While Keleş Efendi continued on his path as both a liberal and a socialist, even though those around him would say, "What do you have to do with LGBT? Do you even know what LGBT is?" he wouldn't pay any mind. He would give a short answer and move on. 

If they pushed him too hard, he would say: 

"Oh brothers, do I know what I'm doing? Everyone has become a liberal, so I became a liberal too. I saw that there are those who are both liberal and socialist. Now I am both a liberal and a socialist. Let's see, we've boarded a vehicle, heading toward doomsday...