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Time: April 28, 2017

Location: Sale Lake

This is the beginning of Kadir's drama and the last day of his son İlker!

Kadir is a modest man who lives in the "Porsuk Village" near "Sale Lake" and makes a living with the few cattle he owns. Years ago, during the birth of his only son, İlker, he lost his beloved wife and raised his son İlker alone.

For Kadir, who combined the love of his lost wife with the love of his son, İlker was his source and motivation to live.

When İlker was 6 years old, a new door was opened for him for a new beginning. It was school time to begin the education that would last for many years.

Since the village of Porsuk is a small village and an area with a limited number of people, there was no school in the village. Already, the number of students going to school consisted of 3 boys and 2 girls.

That's why bussed education was a system that has been used for years. Children in small villages were dropped off in the larger village of "Çıldır Village" every morning by bus, and were transported to their own villages by bus in the evening, with the help of the state.

As the years progressed, İlker grew up and became a successful student at school, and his father's assistant and pride in the village. Until the day the drama begins!

Returning early from the half-day school due to the national holiday, İlker went to Sale Lake with his two friends Murat and Kemal.

The 3 friends jumped over the rocks at the lowest point of the lake and cooled off in the water. The sounds and laughter they made while they were having fun echoed in the mountains surrounding Sale Lake. The clocks were ticking to prepare Kadir's drama on April 28, 2017.

At that time, Kemal made a race offer. He pointed to the bigger boulder and said, "Let's jump from there at the same time, the last one out of the water wins the race."

Murat and İlker accepted the offer without thinking. Three friends lined up on the rock that Kemal pointed to.

Kemal started the race by saying "When I say three at the same time"

One, two, three!

Murat, one of the friends who jumped into the lake at the same time, was the first to emerge from the water. A few seconds after that, Kemal, the owner of the race offer, surfaced. When the two friends realized that Ilker was the winner of the race, they said "OK, come out, you won the race", but Ilker was not visible in the water.

In a panic they called out louder to their friends. They went under the water a few times and tried to see and find İlker.

The time elapsed was too much for a human to survive in water. Murat and Kemal went to the village coffee house and explained the situation in tears. The village headman mobilized the search and rescue teams by phone.

Within an hour, fully equipped crews had surrounded Sale Lake. The divers, in teams of two, dived from different shores of the lake and sought Ilker. With the teams they formed among themselves, the villagers blocked the water flow from the lake to the sea with nets. They searched the part of the water current up to the sea with long sticks in their hands.

The goal was no longer to find İlker alive. He had returned to find his body so that it could have a grave. While all this was going on, İlker's father Kadir sat silently on the rocks where his son had jumped, accompanied by despair and tears falling from his eyes.

Search and rescue efforts were stopped by the authorities for İlker, who could not be found after all the continued searches. Kadir was informed by the authorities that his son would be counted as missing for 5 years, and if his body was not found alive or dead during this period, he would be considered dead.

Today is April 28, 2022

The 5 years that the authorities said have expired today and İlker is officially counted dead.

Kadir waited for his son İlker, sitting on the rocks on the shore of Sale Lake, who took his son every day for these 5 years!

There is a saying for nature. "Nature always takes back what it gives" So why doesn't it give back what it takes?

#blurthispano #blurt #beingsocial

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