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00:00Welcome to the fantastic Istanbul.
00:24It is one of the world's largest and most important cities, and it has been throughout history.
00:30It is located here in the borderland between two parts of the world.
00:34Over there we have Europe, and there is Asia.
00:37And with that location, Istanbul, and before that Constantinople, New Rome, Kert Barn and many other names,
00:44has always been a very important strategic junction.
00:48And since its foundation about 3,000 years ago, it has also been a center of power for the Greeks, the Romans,
00:56the mighty Ottoman Empire and Turkey.
00:59Yes, today it is a self-confident nation that the world must and should count on.
01:05The city spreads over a huge area.
01:08That is, in round numbers, about twice the area of Finland.
01:12And here live about 20 million people.
01:17So welcome to Istanbul, Europe's largest city.
01:23I'm going to meet some of Istanbul's best sellers.
01:26You look like a rich. We are asking high price.
01:29I like that.
01:30Peter, is it now?
01:31My hard line is seen thoroughly after in the swamps.
01:35No, then I can get such a hair like a cork twist.
01:37It is one of the world's wildest buildings.
01:40I love it.
01:41And then I am challenged by a ready-to-fight Turkish singer.
01:45We need economically safe, politically safe.
01:48If you cannot provide this, we cannot say that we are living.
01:52We are just surviving.
01:55Hold up, I'm far from home and thank you for that.
01:58I love to travel, both in my own country and outside the Danish border.
02:02You need Botox also.
02:05Experience culture and special people.
02:08Do you talk about the men?
02:11White and beautiful.
02:13And not least what they have created.
02:15This is where Hitler's mighty Atlantbolg begins.
02:20There is not much war over this.
02:22This is one of the biggest.
02:24Esbjerg, come on!
02:25Because the world is full of places that impress.
02:28Try to see.
02:29Yes, as in different ways, just feel the biggest.
02:41Yes, as mentioned, Istanbul is on both sides of the Bosphorus Strait,
02:45which connects the Marmara Sea with the Sorda Sea.
02:49My journey through Europe's largest city
02:52begins in a living museum in the old town.
03:03This is Istanbul's world-famous Grand Bazaar.
03:07It dates back to 1455, more than 550 years ago.
03:12With its 31,000 square meters,
03:15it was supposed to be the world's largest covered bazaar.
03:18There are also more than 4,000 shops
03:21and they are visited annually by 100 million people.
03:25That's a hell of a lot.
03:33I have agreed to meet with my colleague from TV2,
03:36Sultan Koban.
03:38Thank you very much.
03:39She can cover me up so I don't get lost in the bazaar's many corridors.
03:43Then we come in.
03:44Then we come in.
03:45Or we have been picked up by the sellers.
03:47We can go down here, actually.
03:51Where is it so cool?
03:52That's what you forget a little when we go around here
03:55and just look around.
03:58Sultan grew up in Denmark,
04:00but has lived in Istanbul since 2015,
04:03and she works as a freelance journalist for TV2, among others.
04:06Hold on.
04:07And she is over 500 years old.
04:09The oldest shopping center, they say.
04:14The oldest mall, as Americans would say.
04:17We are really happy for malls in Istanbul, in Turkey, all the time,
04:21but this is something else, something special.
04:24It sounds very Jewish distrust,
04:27but can you count on the things that are here?
04:31For example, it looks like a nice boutique with Christian Dior,
04:36and so on, and it is absolutely not real.
04:39It's not Christian Dior?
04:40But it's good fake.
04:41Okay, good.
04:42Real fake.
04:46Sellers who are hired or work all their lives in the grand bazaar,
04:50they are some of the best sellers in the world,
04:53they simply say.
04:55They just have a completely different contact.
04:58Wow.
04:59Hello.
05:03Thank you very much.
05:05Hello.
05:09So the carpet is from all over Middle East?
05:12All over the world.
05:13Yeah.
05:14For example, this is Persian.
05:15This is from Azerbaijan, more Caucasus area.
05:19Yes.
05:20This is Persian.
05:21And if I'm responsible for the thousands of Danish people
05:25come here, visit your shop,
05:27how much discount can they get from you?
05:30Depends on the customer, actually.
05:32You look like a rich, we are asking high price.
05:35Okay.
05:36For example, for you, this size, we are asking 500 euro.
05:39If you are American, we are asking 1,500 euro.
05:42I like that.
05:44If you send your friend from your country,
05:47if we sell something for them,
05:50I will give you a 20% commission.
05:5220% commission?
05:5420%?
05:55So if I recommend a customer, you give me 20%?
06:17Thank you very much.
06:1820%?
06:19Yes.
06:20I like that.
06:21Thank you very much.
06:23Thank you, man.
06:24Bye-bye.
06:44Hello.
06:45Hello.
06:46How are you?
06:47I'm good.
06:52I told the hairdresser that the hair is not as it used to be.
06:56We get months in the back of the head,
06:58and the hair is just getting bigger and bigger.
07:01For my own acquaintance, it was a hair journey
07:03that started when I was 16-17 years old.
07:06And still going, as you see.
07:09And you can choose to do something about it.
07:11The cheaper and easier solution is to buy a year's worth of
07:13brilliantine and a tight comb,
07:15and then end the hair all the way around the neck or back,
07:17if that's what it's for.
07:19The better, more sustainable and exclusive solution
07:22is to get a hair transplant.
07:24And that's what the experts here in Istanbul are all about.
07:27There are more than 100 clinics that offer the procedure.
07:33It's much cheaper to get a hair transplant in Istanbul
07:37than in Denmark.
07:39And it attracts hair tourists from all over the world.
07:42I'm going to meet Zahe,
07:44who specializes in helping Danes
07:46who would like to have a hair transplant.
07:51Do you know where you are?
07:53Do you know if it's a high-rise full of clinics?
07:58From the restaurants in the labors,
08:00if that's what it's called,
08:01botox in the throats,
08:03to a little exercise,
08:05or reduction,
08:06I could use that sometime.
08:08More hair, less chest.
08:10That's my friend at 50.
08:12Hi, hello!
08:13Hi, it's me.
08:14Oh, it's you, Zahe!
08:15Sorry!
08:17Come, Peter!
08:18Zahe arranges everything from the flight,
08:20the hotel and the clinic,
08:22and works both as interpreter and consultant
08:25to make sure the patients are safe during the procedure.
08:29And one of the Danes who just arrived,
08:31it's him here.
08:32Hi!
08:33Good day!
08:34Is that Carsten?
08:3550-year-old Carsten from Rungsted.
08:37Hi!
08:38Thank you for letting me meet you.
08:39Likewise.
08:41Is it something you don't talk about?
08:43Losing hair?
08:44I don't know, but you can see it.
08:46So you don't have to hide it.
08:49I ride a motorcycle on Store Harley
08:51with long hair,
08:53and you can see it.
08:55Yes.
08:56I'm not the same as I am today.
08:58I think you're a handsome man, Carsten.
09:01There's something missing, right?
09:03It probably doesn't end with Beatles hair,
09:05so you're not like that either.
09:07Exactly.
09:08You can also do it,
09:09but you can get a bit of isolation on top
09:12if you have to put it that way.
09:14Do you experience that it's taboo to lose hair
09:16and maybe even more taboo to get it done?
09:19It depends on which generation of men we're talking about.
09:22The younger generation is not taboo.
09:25They're ready when they call,
09:27so they're ready to leave next week.
09:29I often go to the hairdresser
09:31because these places grow out
09:33and become some kind of horn, right?
09:36While this one is very thin.
09:38I've never thought about doing anything with it,
09:40but it makes me think.
09:42I'll admit that.
09:43It could be.
09:45I've sucked a bit here.
09:47I've always had...
09:49Do you mean that?
09:50Yes, yes.
09:51I've never worn a too tight T-shirt
09:53because I think I get a bit of a sore chest.
09:57Okay.
09:58I don't know.
09:59Maybe you can train it enough,
10:00but it's too bad.
10:01Yes.
10:02Do we have to find a solution?
10:03No.
10:04It doesn't hurt that much.
10:05Or at least you're young.
10:06Nevermind.
10:07I shouldn't have mentioned my breasts.
10:08Where the hell did we end up?
10:10The men's breasts have to go behind the bar,
10:13because today it's Carsten who's the main person.
10:15You're a brave man.
10:17You are too, if you get your breasts done.
10:20Carsten, let's get started.
10:22Yes, it has to go strong,
10:24because Carsten is already back in Denmark tomorrow.
10:28It takes 5-6 hours
10:30to remove the hair from the so-called donor area in the neck,
10:33cut the hair a few times,
10:35and then braid it again on top of Carsten's head.
10:39He has to have moved about 3000 hairpins,
10:41and after about a year,
10:43the new hair should have grown
10:45and given him a new and improved hair condition.
10:49And as they say,
10:51when in Rome...
10:52Peter!
10:53Sit down.
10:55Follow me.
10:56Let's see what we can do with you.
10:58If you can get your hair back.
11:00Teenage daughters beat me to death.
11:02It was the last day.
11:03What? You can't do that.
11:05Hello, sorry.
11:07Nice to see you.
11:08How old are you, Peter?
11:1035.
11:1135?
11:12No, 50.
11:14I'm not sure.
11:15Go ahead, Carsten.
11:16If I can get a short hairpin,
11:19maybe a little black,
11:21that would be good.
11:23You can see the thinner ones.
11:26Yeah.
11:27That's much more thin.
11:31You need Botox also.
11:35It's like getting a car service.
11:37You need a new tire.
11:40I'll have to think about it
11:42before I get the big car service.
11:44For now, I'll leave that part to Carsten.
11:50Tea?
11:51Would you like tea or juice?
11:53Which one would you like?
11:54Apple, mint, cinnamon, green?
11:56Apple.
11:58Nice to meet you.
12:01Do you know a movie called Pusher?
12:03Yes.
12:04The guy who plays the gangster in it,
12:07who is played by Slavko Buric in Croatia,
12:10he looks like him.
12:11That's right.
12:12So if we don't pay, he says,
12:14Peter, you owe me.
12:15He looks like someone who comes after us
12:17if we don't pay.
12:18He actually looks like him.
12:20Yes, thank you.
12:21I'll have to pay the bill.
12:23And in Euro,
12:24not the Turkish lira.
12:26Turkey is plagued by high inflation,
12:29which makes the lira, their currency,
12:32less and less valuable.
12:34This is a huge challenge
12:36for ordinary Turkish citizens
12:38who can see their salary and income
12:40crumble between their hands.
12:42Erdogan has an anti-interest policy.
12:45It's the same with Islam.
12:47Interest is haram.
12:49You can't take interest.
12:52The bank director fights...
12:55Yes, he fires the central bank director.
12:57He fires them on the spot.
12:59Of course, the central bank
13:00would raise interest to control inflation.
13:02No, interest is haram.
13:03It shouldn't be.
13:04There are other options.
13:05But that also means that the inflation
13:07just gallops out of there
13:08because you don't take a life out of it.
13:11And when the money isn't worth much,
13:13they have to be converted into something more reasonable.
13:16Some money has changed hands here.
13:18In Denmark,
13:19we would maybe look at a small summer house
13:21or some stocks.
13:22But in Turkey,
13:23there's a long tradition of investing in gold.
13:26There's something deeply, deeply fascinating about gold.
13:29One gram of gold can be pulled out
13:31to a length of over a kilometer in a thread.
13:33And you can make one square meter of gold
13:35out of one gram of gold.
13:37It's very...
13:38What's it called?
13:39Elastic.
13:40I think it's called ductile,
13:41with a nice word.
13:42I'm also the gold type.
13:43I like gold.
13:44Big and shiny.
13:46You can see here.
13:48This is the most common gift
13:50you give to a wedding.
13:52These coins.
13:53It's a nice gift,
13:54because you can keep it
13:55until, let's say, 10 years later.
13:58Then the gold is worth 20 times more.
14:01And there's 50 grams of fine gold,
14:03and 100...
14:04Who are the customers
14:06who buy 50 grams of gold in a gold bar?
14:08Who are they?
14:09Normal, ordinary citizens.
14:11Turkish citizens.
14:12Yes.
14:13They start investing.
14:14They sell their car.
14:15They invest so they don't run out of money.
14:18They sell their apartment.
14:20Did you buy anything today?
14:22Did you buy anything today?
14:24Yes.
14:25Cool.
14:26It's just been weighed, right?
14:28I think I want this biks.
14:29It's the one we've seen the most.
14:31They're almost in line.
14:32How much?
14:331,600 euros.
14:34For both of them?
14:35For both of them.
14:37For one of them, it's 800 euros.
14:416,000 kroner.
14:42Don't you want a gift for one of them?
14:44No.
14:45Can you get a percentage here too?
14:47No.
14:48Thank you very much.
14:49Thank you very much.
14:50Thank you very much.
14:51It's very valuable.
14:57So Carsten has been under the knife,
14:59if that's what it's called,
15:00when you get your hair done
15:01for two to four hours.
15:04I'm excited to see how it goes.
15:12Hi.
15:13Can we come in?
15:14Thank you very much.
15:15How's it going?
15:16Good.
15:18Carsten, we're in the room, if you can hear us.
15:20Yes.
15:22It looks dangerous.
15:24No, it doesn't look that bad.
15:26You've been going on for more than four hours.
15:29Hi.
15:30Okay.
15:31Yes, isn't it?
15:32Yes, yes.
15:33Now it's going to be cut, right?
15:35Yes, so first they took the hair out.
15:38Yes.
15:39And then put it on a table, right?
15:41No, you can actually see it there.
15:44It's over there?
15:45Yes.
15:46I'm glad I'm not the doctor's associate.
15:48It's good to hear the humor,
15:50it's a sign.
15:52Then the doctor has been in and opened
15:54these small channels.
15:55In the scalp.
15:56In those directions,
15:57so it will be like his own natural hair.
15:59Yes, because then you can,
16:01when the hair comes out,
16:02then you can play in those directions.
16:03Yes, yes, then she actually comes in
16:05and designs how the hair should come out.
16:08And when does Carsten have to fly home?
16:10He does that early in the morning.
16:12Then we just have a week
16:13where the scars have to go.
16:15But he can certainly go to work,
16:16does not have any pain.
16:17It's just more appearance
16:18that the scars have to be.
16:19Carsten, we don't want to disturb you anymore.
16:21Thank you very much.
16:22I look forward to seeing you again.
16:24And get home safely.
16:26And thank you very much.
16:46The Turkish Republic was founded in 1923
16:50by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
16:53But the history of the country goes much further back.
16:57The area has been inhabited by Romans,
17:00Greeks and Ottomans,
17:01and this mixture can be felt in the culture
17:03and seen in the architecture.
17:05There are over 3000 mosques in the city,
17:08but the largest and most famous
17:10is Hagia Sophia.
17:16Oh, did it go in?
17:17Sorry, sorry, sorry.
17:19I'm a little sad with our invitation
17:21to come in and see Hagia Sophia.
17:23Mads, I think you should watch a movie now.
17:25TV2 Denmark.
17:28Very good channel.
17:30It is usually always safe to go to church,
17:33but here it is really safe
17:35that maybe it is.
17:37So we have to come in.
17:38Okay, we're safe in.
17:41And we are certainly safe.
17:43I have never seen so many officers.
17:45Some even with machine guns
17:47and firearms.
17:49Well, come on.
17:50Are you in, Mads?
17:52Oh, but try to see there.
17:56Wow, that's cool.
17:58I mean ...
18:14Now it's just a crazy building.
18:20Ladies and gentlemen,
18:21this is one of the world's craziest buildings.
18:25Hagia Sophia,
18:27which means the holy sanctuary.
18:30Originally built by Emperor Justinian in 537.
18:35It was a Christian church until 1453,
18:38when some Muslim Europeans came by
18:40under Mehmed II,
18:42and they turned the church into a mosque.
18:45In the year 134,
18:47as far as we know,
18:48the Turkish emperor Kemal Mustafa Ataturk said
18:51it should be a museum.
18:53There have been both Christians and Muslims,
18:56and all those in between have been in
18:58and loved this building.
18:59Now it must be a museum that is open to everyone.
19:02And so it was until 2020,
19:05where the current ruler of Turkey, Erdogan,
19:08President Erdogan,
19:09said no, now it must be a mosque.
19:11So away with this museum.
19:13And that also means that the access to filming
19:16is no-go.
19:18So we can't film from inside.
19:20I would like to go in and experience the church.
19:22Maybe for some reason.
19:24But I really hope we have some archive material
19:27at home,
19:28that we can put on this insert.
19:31And TV2 has luckily bought these beautiful pictures,
19:36so you don't get bored of Hagia Sophia's beautiful intro.
19:41Hagia Sophia
19:45Hello.
19:50Wow, what a crazy experience.
19:52I was just about to say,
19:53almost a religious experience,
19:55but unfortunately I have never had the gift
19:57to believe in something supernatural.
20:00But to be in there,
20:02to see this building, the mosaics,
20:05you get really high.
20:07A very, very big feeling of...
20:11Well, just a little bit.
20:13That is, as the name says,
20:15the holy wisdom.
20:16And I'm not particularly holy,
20:18but it hits.
20:28Just as you can see clear traces
20:30of Istanbul's various rulers
20:32on the city's buildings,
20:33so is the Turkish kitchen
20:35also a fusion of the many ethnic groups
20:37that have been here.
20:39In fact, it is said that the Turkish kitchen
20:41is one of the best in the world.
20:45I live in a restaurant
20:46that has had menu cards for over 100 years,
20:49and they are experts in making
20:51traditional Turkish dishes.
20:53Hello.
20:54Hello.
20:55Hi, Peter, how are you?
20:56Ergin?
20:57Ergin, yes.
20:58Ergin.
20:59Wow.
21:00Fantastic.
21:01Thank you very much.
21:02This is a local cuisine?
21:03Yeah.
21:04Every day we make over 100 dishes.
21:07The restaurant is from 1990.
21:09Nearly the starting year of the Ataturks.
21:11Yeah, so you started the restaurant,
21:13or your family did,
21:14nearly at the same time
21:16that the Turkish Republic developed.
21:18Yes, yes.
21:19Wow.
21:20Is it possible that you could make
21:22a small tasting that gives me
21:24an impression of this huge world kitchen?
21:28Okay.
21:29You can sit.
21:30Okay, thank you.
21:33I'm ready to go.
21:34Thank you very much.
21:36Wow, small dishes.
21:38Ergin.
21:39Yes, these are small.
21:40These are small.
21:41These are small.
21:42I hope you join me.
21:43Yes.
21:44This is lamb's feet.
21:46First we cook it, we boil it,
21:48and after that we mix it with the juice,
21:51with the yogurt,
21:52and so it's more easy to drink
21:54for the ladies and for some of our customers.
21:56It's very healthy for the knees.
21:58For the knees?
21:59Yes.
22:00So it's lamb feet.
22:01When you eat it, it's good for the human knee.
22:03Yeah, yeah.
22:04I like that.
22:05I like that.
22:09When you ask a Danish guy or lady on the street,
22:12and we say Turkish cuisine,
22:14they will say döner, kebab.
22:16Yeah.
22:17Maybe it's our fault
22:19because we produce only döner and kebab
22:22to the European and foreign people.
22:25The kebab belongs to some area in Turkey,
22:29but we have been keeping it for 105 years
22:32with the same food, with the same recipe,
22:35and I think it's more delicious and healthy.
22:38Yeah.
22:42Very good.
22:43This is roasted lamb.
22:44It has liver inside.
22:46That's very good.
22:50We call it kadın budu.
22:52Woman's...
22:54Woman's ass?
22:55Butt.
22:56Butt?
22:57Yeah.
22:59Sorry about the name.
23:00No, no, no.
23:01Because of the shape.
23:05You need to get me on a wheelbarrow
23:07and transport me out of here because I cannot go.
23:18Shall we taste the dessert?
23:19Yes.
23:20I will choose for you.
23:23And there's a chicken.
23:24That's a dessert.
23:25Chicken.
23:26Yes.
23:29That's very interesting.
23:32Yes.
23:33Because we have something in Denmark called tartletter.
23:36Tartlets.
23:37There's a little bit of that chicken dish in the taste,
23:41but it's not bad.
23:42It's very interesting.
23:43It's interesting.
23:53Thank you very much.
23:54You're welcome.
23:56We can make...
23:58My food marathon in the Turkish kitchen
24:01has reached its breaking point,
24:03and I'm leaving the Ergin and family restaurant.
24:06But before I can really eat,
24:08I have to see the sunset somewhere
24:10where one of the biggest battles in the city took place.
24:19The day is about to end, and it's almost Christmas Eve,
24:22but you need to have a little story with you on the way.
24:25I'm going to tell you about the original part of Constantinople.
24:28It was, throughout the Middle Ages, one of the richest cities in the world,
24:32and thus, of course, also one of the most fortified.
24:35Yes, they actually said about the city,
24:37it is inalienable.
24:39But Constantinople had a weak point,
24:42and that was the water here.
24:43This bay that goes in, it's called the Golden Horn.
24:46Here the enemy ship could sail in
24:48and then attack the city where it was weakest.
24:51But they had also thought about that.
24:53So for more than 700 years,
24:55a nearly 900 meter long chain, a gigantic chain,
24:59it weighed up to 500,000 kilos,
25:02they spun it out from where I stand,
25:04and then all the way across the water to the other side.
25:07And with that, yes, if a friendly-minded ship came to the city,
25:10then of course they lowered the chain,
25:12and if it was the enemy, then they threw it up.
25:14But a brilliant Muslim leader by the name Mehmed II,
25:17he thought,
25:19I'm not going to get through that chain.
25:21So I dismantle my ship instead,
25:23and then we drag it over the hillside
25:26on rolling logs in the darkness of the night,
25:29and then we put it down on the other side of the chain,
25:32and plop, plop, plop, the ship roars in,
25:34they attack the city, and they fall,
25:36on the 29th of May, 1453.
25:40There, Mehmed II.
25:43Yes, and then there was also something
25:45that he got help from a great gunner,
25:47a Hungarian by the name Orbán,
25:49whose story you'll have to hear another time.
26:12It's early in the morning in Istanbul.
26:14Way too early.
26:16But this is one of the world's most iconic,
26:19yes, historical hotels.
26:21The Pera Palace Hotel.
26:23And we're allowed to come inside,
26:25even with the camera running.
26:28Come.
26:30Come on!
26:32The Pera Palace was built as a result of
26:35the Orient Express arriving in the city.
26:38The Orient Express was built in 1883,
26:41so the upper class could travel by train
26:43from Paris to Istanbul.
26:45And just as those customers
26:47needed a proper place to stay,
26:49so they built the overgrown Pera Palace,
26:51which was the first hotel in the Ottoman Empire,
26:54with built-in electricity,
26:56and all the luxury the rich expected.
26:59And it was visited by great stars
27:01like Hemingway and Agatha Christie,
27:03and a long list of others.
27:12Wow.
27:13You have to say that.
27:15Try to take this place in.
27:22It's just the entrance.
27:24It's just the lobby, right?
27:26In this historical hotel.
27:28It was fun to be rich and angry
27:30and to be poor at that time.
27:32Good morning.
27:37Yes, of course there isn't much life here in the morning,
27:40but it's almost worse.
27:42The lights are dimmed,
27:44and I have to speak softly.
27:46And then the story just comes out of nowhere.
27:49The Kubeli Lounge.
27:51That's really cool.
27:53I love it.
27:58I think of this period
28:00before the First World War.
28:02La Belle Epoque.
28:04A beautiful epoch or beautiful time.
28:06War was far behind us.
28:08We were on the threshold for the new century.
28:10Now we didn't have to kill each other.
28:12Now we just had to drink champagne
28:14and drink after midday tea.
28:16Now it worked.
28:18But it was naive optimism.
28:20Because we know that one of the world's
28:22greatest battles
28:24happened less than 20 years later.
28:28Just get on the train,
28:30with the Orient Express.
28:32It's a bit different.
28:34And then you get to this.
28:36This clearing of copper.
28:38And you've taken the piece of cake
28:40you probably shouldn't have taken.
28:42Number seven.
28:44You've conversed.
28:46Mr. Ford. Nice to see you.
28:48That's the guy I invested in.
28:50The car of the new moon.
28:54What did you say?
28:56No, a horse.
28:58You know what that is.
29:00I'm lucky with that.
29:02Syphilis.
29:05A million comes easily.
29:07It also goes easily.
29:11I've got company from
29:13Mr. Emre.
29:15Emre, yes.
29:17And he has allowed us to
29:19get into this.
29:21It's the world's second
29:23first elevator.
29:25Or the world's second youngest elevator.
29:27Thank you. I am allowed.
29:29The first is installed in the Eiffel Tower.
29:31And this is number two.
29:34Am I allowed to sit down here?
29:36Just like the rich
29:38and lazy guests from the past?
29:47And in the old days
29:49was there always a
29:51lift boy
29:53to accommodate?
29:55Like this.
29:59So this is the fourth floor.
30:01People are sleeping so
30:03it's tough.
30:07And where is room 411?
30:09Where is it?
30:31Agatha Christie.
30:33It doesn't get bigger.
30:35We make a show called Størst.
30:37If you are Agatha Christie,
30:39it simply doesn't get bigger.
30:41She is the author
30:43who has sold the most books.
30:45Two billion books
30:47so far.
30:49And many of Agatha Christie's mother
30:51are poisoned.
30:53And that's because
30:55Agatha herself chose to
30:57become a volunteer nurse
30:59at a pharmacy
31:01where they had strychnine, arsenic
31:03and laudanum.
31:05So she knew
31:07how to take
31:09people's lives
31:11with chemical substances.
31:19My trip to Europe's largest city
31:21is coming to an end.
31:23But I have one last date
31:25with one of the city's
31:28Do we have, you know,
31:30Turkish techno?
31:32Music, you know.
31:34You have? Can I hear?
31:36No problem.
31:48Smoke?
31:50It went in Turkey.
31:57We smoked at the journalist school
31:59for four years.
32:02We didn't really say anything.
32:04Luckily.
32:06We smoked all day.
32:08I couldn't stand this smoke.
32:16Now we wake. We woke up.
32:23Here in Istanbul
32:25we meet one of Turkey's big stars.
32:27Singer Inge Gaye Sogacoglu.
32:29And even though I don't think
32:31she would mind being put in a certain box
32:33she can best be described
32:35as a Turkish singer-songwriter
32:37with a sharp edge.
32:39And what I'm going to talk to her about
32:41is this city, this country
32:43and the culture she stands on the shoulders of.
32:45And not least
32:47what she thinks about Turkey's development.
32:51Turkey's president Erdogan
32:53has dominated the country for the last 20 years.
32:55His policy is partly conservative
32:57and it certainly doesn't
32:59benefit all groups of people equally.
33:01LGBT plus people
33:03are exposed
33:05and opposition politicians and citizens
33:07who criticize the government
33:09risk prison sentences.
33:11I'm going to meet one of the young voices
33:13who have been suspected and dismissed
33:15for being government-critical.
33:17Welcome. Hello. How are you?
33:19Gaye? Yes.
33:21Sorry about my cold hands.
33:23I'm born with cold hands.
33:25Sorry about my super hot hands.
33:27Welcome. Let's go.
33:29What an apartment you have.
33:31It's very charming.
33:35It's not the most tidiest one, actually.
33:37Street fighter?
33:39Is it working?
33:41Sure. It works.
33:43I love it.
33:47Gaye studied social anthropology
33:49during her artist career as a painter.
33:51Then she switched to music
33:53which has also brought her up on Danish stages
33:55several times.
33:57This is like a home studio.
33:59Her songs
34:01often have one eye on the past
34:03and one on the future.
34:05The lyrics are a metaphorical universe
34:07that tells about dreams for a future
34:09which, at least for me,
34:11doesn't quite match
34:13what the present Turkish society looks like today.
34:15If you look upon your country
34:17the development,
34:19how do you look at that?
34:2120 years ago, Istanbul was
34:23one of the capitals of culture.
34:25But it changed a lot.
34:27Nowadays, festivals are
34:29getting cancelled day by day.
34:31A city must be
34:33secular enough to be
34:35a cultural capital.
34:37So, yeah, we need to
34:39work for it.
34:41We are now in 2023.
34:43We need music.
34:45We need culture.
34:47We need economically safe,
34:49politically safe,
34:51socially safe.
34:53If you cannot provide this
34:55to the people of the world,
34:57we cannot say that we are living.
34:59We are just surviving.
35:01This historical place
35:03has a beautiful amount of
35:05difference
35:07and cultural background.
35:09We should understand that
35:11and open the boxes of it.
35:14You have an album called
35:16The Dragon from Anatolia, yes?
35:18Yeah, you can translate like that.
35:20It's Anatolian Dragon.
35:22Anatolian Dragon.
35:24Are you the Anatolian Dragon?
35:26Yes.
35:28This song is from the previous album
35:30and we can translate it
35:32directly as
35:34Consistent Fantasy is Reality.
35:36Consistent Fantasy is Reality.
35:38Yeah.
35:40Okay.
35:43What kind of life is this?
35:45What kind of mind is this?
35:47It makes you lay down
35:49like a rock.
35:51It flows like a river.
35:53We swim in trouble.
35:55We fly, yes.
35:57Because
35:59the beautiful
36:01consistent fantasy
36:03is reality.
36:05Is there death
36:07or is it a dream?
36:09My trouble,
36:11let it stay.
36:13My love wine,
36:15let it freeze.
36:23Gaia's music
36:25often moves in a futuristic universe
36:27that has both
36:29her fascination with science fiction movies
36:31and alternative realities,
36:33but it's also a way to speak more freely
36:35about her wishes for the future of Istanbul,
36:37Turkey and the world.
36:39The sea looks like
36:41a dead house.
36:43In 2019, she was heard by the police
36:45when she suspected one of her songs
36:47to be government-critical.
36:49However, she was allowed to leave
36:51because her lyrics are so metaphorical
36:53that they could not be used as evidence.
37:05Wow.
37:09Thank you so much.
37:11What a voice.
37:13So, shall I beat you
37:15in Street Fighter 2?
37:17Can I?
37:23That was not fair.
37:29I thought you were good.
37:39I lost?
37:43I bow me in the dirt. You're the winner.
37:45I'm a loser, baby.
37:47So why don't you kill me?
37:57So nice to meet you.
37:59Best of luck to you.
38:10I say goodbye
38:12to this unforgettable city
38:14as my too short journey
38:16and this program
38:18does not pay enough respect.
38:20As the good old Napoleon said,
38:22if the world was one country,
38:24Istanbul would be its capital.
38:26It still forms a bridge
38:28between East and West
38:30and it will hopefully also continue
38:32to make us a little wiser about each other.
38:34Turkey and Istanbul
38:36have their challenges
38:38but there are definitely many things
38:40that could be better for the ordinary Turk.
38:42And some would say
38:44that in recent years
38:46it has gone a little crazy.
38:48But Istanbul has broken so many times before
38:50and just as the water flows
38:52through the streets of the two parts of the world,
38:54then this city,
38:56its many people
38:58and not least importance
39:00will last forever.
39:02Because Istanbul is just the biggest.
39:04And if you are considering
39:06going to Istanbul,
39:08I would like to say to Carsten
39:10that he can warmly recommend it.
39:16Peter Ingemann is back here on TV2 Play
39:18with a new episode every Sunday.
39:22And on the same day,
39:24a new episode with one of our great fiction series
39:26is finally back.
39:28We can get the life we dream of.
39:30It's not the life I dream of.
39:32How are you doing this Sunday?
39:34It's not our life.
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