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HALEPLİ TAHİR
( curcunabaz )

Everyone has a different opinion about him, assumed he lies evertime. For some, he is so peaceful, for others, he is a strong hell-raiser, for some he is 26 and for others he is 41, for some is a poor guy never married and for some he is married with four children, for some he likes moussaka, for some he could assassinate for karnıyarık. But then, we understood the reason of all was because he was a secretive man. On a rainy autumn day we met him in a coffeehouse and we had a conversation. He told us, he was a fisher in Antioch but was actually from Aleppo, and one of those resembling days of the sea life, he caught a kind of colorful and fancy fish that never seen before but as he drawed the fish, it skipped. And after that day he bore to sea to find it but he never could see a fish like that, became an exhausted, grumpy, never bore to sea again.