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Hello.

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As I am the last speaker today,

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I think I have the privilege
to speak as much as I want.

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I assume you are already feeling tired
and thinking it’s time to leave.

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Let me tell you from the beginning
that I will save my best bit till the end.

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(Laughter)

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I am a brain surgeon.

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This is my office.

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I have one of the most
challenging jobs on earth.

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What would you think
is the most challenging part of my job?

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Working for long hours
under this microscope?

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Or the risk to lose a life
or leave a patient disabled

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with a minor mistake I make?

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That’s definitely not
the most challenging part.

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But meeting with people

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who've learned that they have
a brain tumor in their head

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or whose lives go upside down
with a rupture of a brain aneurysm

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and have cerebral hemorrhage.

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The hardest part of my job

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is to have a face-to-face
conversation with a mother

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who has just learned that there is
a tumor in her kid’s cerebellum

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and to try to explain her the situation.

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I don’t see my patients as cases.

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I see them as a whole

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with their feelings,
opinions, loved ones and jobs.

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I think about how the disease
they’ve been trapped in will affect them

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and how I can help them out.

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Today I will tell you
about moments and choices.

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Momentum reminds me of a moment,

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I mean a moment of time
and then an action.

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The most distinct feature
of motion is its direction.

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When a truck is moving on a straight line 
on a highway, it is not a problem.

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But when the driver turns
the wheel towards the barriers,

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then we get a problem.

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The direction of the action
marks the choice.

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Humans are defined
by their moments and choices.

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What is a moment?

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A minute? Ten minutes?

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If a moment is a minute,

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then you have 25 million moments
in your whole lifetime

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excluding the time you invest in sleep.

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If it's ten minutes,
you have 2.5 million moments.

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Of course, this is true for any newborn.

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I mean, we don’t have much time.

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Because of this, our moments
and choices gain importance.

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I’ll give you examples of moments -

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examples from choices from my patients, 
from myself and from other people.

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There’s this young man at the age of 17.

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He has many problems, like most of us.

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And he’s also in love.

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He wants to talk to the girl who he loves,

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and he is determined
to talk to her that day.

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He keeps texting her but gets no replies.

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He calls her this time, again no reply.

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Then he calls her again, 
and his call gets suspended.

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He goes to the living room,

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opens the window
and jumps into the void.

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No, he doesn’t die.

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He becomes paraplegic.

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He will spend the rest
of his life in a wheel chair

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with all his problems remaining the same.

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No choice should be made against life,

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including the choices on our life,

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since there’s only
one sacred thing on this earth,

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which is life.

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This holds true for all the children
who die from hunger in Africa

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or in a bombardment in the Middle East.

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It holds true for the dolphins
slaughtered at the Faroe islands

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as wells as the dogs
poisoned to death by municipalities.

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It also holds true for the trees
chopped to build a mall in Gezi Park,

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chopped to build a mosque in Validebağ

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or chopped for a power plant in Soma.

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(Applause)

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By the way, dear ladies and gentlemen,

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please do not forget to reply
to the texts from your loved ones

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as long as the text you received
doesn't include harsh words.

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I’ve had so many patients 
who have jumped into the void.

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Another of my patients
is a woman at the age of 29.

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She was married,

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had a happy marriage and a good job.

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She was having headaches.

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She got an MRI, and a big
vascular lump was found.

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She came to me.

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I began to inform her about her condition,

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that she had had the lump since birth

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and it could stay there
doing no harm until the end of her life.

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She suddenly took the words 
out of my mouth and said,

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"But it might also bleed
tomorrow and I might die."

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For a while now,

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patients have been researching
their illnesses on the Internet.

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They research me too.
They know almost everything about me.

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She said, "They say you’re good
at this kind of surgery. Save me."

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I told her the risks of the operation,
including disabilities and death.

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She said, "I want the operation."

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The operation took 20 hours.

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She came out of the operation
with both legs and one arm paralyzed.

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And then she gave me the best gift 
I’ve ever got from a patient:

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this postcard.

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It pictures her and her husband.

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On the back side, it says,

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January 2002, the diagnosis;
April 2002, the operation;

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August 2002, 3200 meters high 
on Mount Kaçkar.

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She made a choice,

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and I am so happy that I
could give her a life she wished for.

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The next story is a bit more touching.

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A man in his mid-30s
had an epileptic attack.

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They took him to the ER.
He got an MRI scan.

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A big tumor in the right
hemisphere of the brain.

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He came to me.

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With a bitter smile on his face, he asked,
"Doc, you think I can survive?"

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It was a malignant one.

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I said, "We both will fight against it."

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I operated on him
three times in two years.

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One day, he called me.

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He said,

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"Doc, I lived the last two years well.
I did everything I dreamed of.

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I had fantasies and realized them all.

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I enjoyed 40-50 years in only two years."

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He died a week later.

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Should it have been like that?

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Do we have to crashed into a wall

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before we understand
the value of our lives?

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We come out from a cubicle called home

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to go to another cubicle called work
every single morning.

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We keep wasting a lifetime

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while our imagination
and creativity fade away.

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We strive hard to earn more, 
get higher social status

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and become more powerful.

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Yet does being powerful
help us to get more decent?

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Most of the time, it makes us worse.

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We become more alienated

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from our surroundings
and the planet we live on.

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When was the last time
you had a look at a world map?

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How many of you have ever
dreamed of going to the poles

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or going down a trench on a submarine?

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If you didn’t,

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then how would your children
dream of going to Jupiter or Uranus?

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How would our children
growing up in this land do so?

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I’ll give you two examples
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I am a sailor myself too.

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Two great female sailors.

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The first one is Jean Socrates,

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a retired math teacher at the age of 70.

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She and her husband learned
how to sail after the age of 50.

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They sold their house and bought 
a sailboat to travel around the world.

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They named it Nereida.

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But her husband died because of cancer.

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This 70-year-old woman took the challenge

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and decided to travel around the world
nonstop on the most challenging route.

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Very few people had managed to do so.

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She set off.

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She tried to complete her journey
but had to stop on the way.

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So she could not achieve her goal,
but she set off again.

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She needed to stop once again,
only 60 miles before the finish line.

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She set off again,

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and finally she became the oldest person
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that sailed nonstop around the world.

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Another great sailor, Ellen MacArthur.

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She has a petite figure
and is 152 cm tall.

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She joined one of the toughest
sport competitions in the world,

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called Vendée Globe.

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She fought off

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the 10-15-metre-high waves 
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on a 60-foot sailboat for 94 days,

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and finished the competition
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Three years later,

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she became the fastest person on earth

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to sail around the world with a trimaran.

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Both of these great women

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are now fighting off cancer
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as they keep sailing at the same time.

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They have become role-models

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and a source of inspiration
for the children in their countries.

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I now remember a year ago.

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One of my patients
was having a brain hemorrhage.

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She was in the operation room
two hours later.

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This video is an episode 
from her operation.

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Soon, I will experience the worst thing 
a brain surgeon can ever experience.

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We call it a premature rupture.

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Before I got to explore 
the anatomy of the patient,

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the aneurysm burst.

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The blood which should flow to the brain

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was coming out with such a great pressure

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that it was like water
coming out of a hose.

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If I could not have stopped
the bleeding in couple of minutes,

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I’d have lost the patient.

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Seconds were running by
and my coronary arteries shriveled up.

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But it’s my job.

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I’d done hundreds of operations
like this in the past 25 years.

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I knew how to stop this bleeding.

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I clipped the aneurysm.

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I saved the patient’s life.

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I am a surgeon
who is in love with his job.

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I am a surgeon who does his job well.

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I have been doing
what I was dreaming of as a kid.

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I’ve educated a lot
of residents and students.

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I have written books,

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and I am well-known 
both nationwide and worldwide.

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Yet it started to feel inadequate
to have only one dimension in my life,

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to get stuck in neurosurgery.

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After that operation, I went to Taksim.

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It was June.

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The Gezi Park protests have inspired 
its participants in many different ways.

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And for me,

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it made me think that we live
on a planet called Earth.

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I was here two months after.

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East Greenland, Angmagssalik region.

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An Eskimo village called Kulusuk.

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My goal was to pass through 
the Arctic Circle in a kayak.

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I’d never rode in a kayak before.

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I’d never paddled.

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We sailed to the Greenland sea,

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and I was with people
I didn’t know at all.

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We started to paddle
in the direction of the Arctic Circle,

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which was 100 km away.

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I stayed in a tent on Greenland.

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I had not stayed in a tent 
for the past 30 years.

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I went to the toilet
watching out for polar bears.

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I never washed for eight days.

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I mean, these were not very common things

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for a 50-year-old medical professor

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who was used to the modern urban life.

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But in the end, I did it;
I passed through the Arctic Circle.

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And here I was after three months:

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Antarctica.

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From Ushuaia -

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(Applause)

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Well, I’ll travel more

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if I keep getting
these rounds of applause.

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(Laughter)

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We got onto this sailboat in Ushuaia,

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the southernmost city on Earth,

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and sailed to the Drake Passage.

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With eight more people;
people who I didn’t know at all.

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The Drake Passage
is one of the toughest on earth.

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It’s between South America and Antarctica
and rough for 300 days a year.

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You get to this magnificent place 
after you cross the Drake Passage.

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Antarctica.

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You feel like you have arrived 
on a different planet.

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The best part of Antarctica 
is that no one owns it.

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No countries or
multinationals possess it.

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Nobody tries to exploit 
its natural resources.

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Antarctica only belongs
to the creatures that live there.

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I stayed in Antarctica for a month.

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I said goodbye to the penguins 
on my way back home.

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(Applause)

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I also didn’t forget to ask them,

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"What's with all these
documentaries of yours

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shown on all TV channels
at the time of Gezi Park Protests

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instead of showing the activists?"

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I am quoting you their response:

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"Dude, we live up here,

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so we don’t care whether they
build a mall in Taksim square or not.

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They filmed us with a candid camera

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and showed it on TV
without asking our permission.

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Our whole life has been exposed,

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whether it's the birth
of our kids or our sex life.

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As you can see, we’re black
and white from birth.

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We would have showed up
in Gezi with the Çarşı Group

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if we had been in İstanbul then."

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(Applause)

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It would have been a nice scene, indeed,

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to march to Gezi cheering 
with a large group of penguins.

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On my way home from Antarctica,

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one of the best things
in my life happened.

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First we saw the spouts.

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It was a group of big humpback whales.

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We lowered the sails and waited.

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They started to near us one by one,

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and soon the whole boat was surrounded
by twenty or so humpback whales.

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Sounds scary?

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Not at all, they started
to play with us like kids.

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They dived on one side of the boat

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and came to the surface on another
in the middle of the vast ocean.

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They showed their flukes
and blew water out on our faces.

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Even a pet will be bothered 
when a visitor shows up at home.

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Yet these whales taught us a lesson
of the friendship of all living creatures

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in the middle of the ocean.

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Then I went back to my operating room.

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I was doing the surgeries
much more passionately than before.

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I examined my patients,
but I was not who I used to be.

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When one travels in the waters
of Greenland and Antarctica,

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one don’t stay the same person.

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While I was working,

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I was also thinking about
walking to the South Pole

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and swimming with the whales in Tongo.

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You might ask if it isn’t dangerous.

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It is.

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But trust me, urban life is no less.

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Especially if you live in Turkey, 
Antarctica is much safer for sure.

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(Laughter)

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We have only one life.

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Only one.

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We don’t know what’s afterwards.

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We were born into this life 
and will live through it.

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Change your lives.


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Start making changes from tomorrow on.

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Dream.

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Dream big and what seems impossible.

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Dream the toughest.

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Dream of climbing
the Everest, and plan it.

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Maybe one day, you will climb Mount Ağrı.

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Not bad, ain’t it?

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Dream of sailing to the Mediterranean 
and head for the oceans.

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Maybe one day you get a fisherman boat
and live on the sea in Istanbul.

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Not bad, ain’t it?

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Touch your life tomorrow.

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Stop being the audience 
and come to the stage.

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Be the actors and actresses
of your own life, not the audience.

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Be the playwright
and the director of your life.

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Touch your life.

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When one changes, everyone changes.

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Humans are defined
by their moments and choices.

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Let your choices follow your dreams.

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Never forget!

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Always remember the Lapon sailors.

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The Lapon sailors never came back

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after they set to the Arctic Ocean
after their red-eyed deer.

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And never thought of coming back.

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(Applause)