Adem Abi from Iskilip... From Emre Bostancı's lens...
Adem Abi. People called him garip (poor-fellow). He stood on his own feet thanks to his labor in İskilip in Çorum. He didn’t talk too much. Nobody knows his story very well, now he is gone and these lines of the master perhaps describe him the best:
“You became a bird in the sky, you couldn't fly
You became a river, a stream, you couldn't flood
You became a child in the streets, you didn't play
You were born and grew up but you didn't live.”
Ahmet Kaya
Forging is such a charming craft that it can notify the guest only with the sound of the knob. Which best news was announced by the eternal love of walnut door and iron knob in these vast lands of Anatolia, who knows? Whenever the door was knocked, who asks which people were excited or which ones became anxious? For centuries, the sound of the knob has echoed in the stone sidewalks of Safranbolu. Such that, these sounds are the masterpiece of the veteran Usta.
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