Last week was a beautiful and special episode, and this week is another incredible episode, as we wondered, on (ep11 ) Turkish Tuesday: Sihirli Annem (s1e11) What is Really the Best Mother’s Day Gift? and this week, we see one of my favorite episodes, bölüm/episode 12, as little Mahmud, in the featured image cropped from the party image below, goes from the poor outcast to the teacher of these ‘rich’ kids.
The summary comes from a fellow blogger (Birgit)’s point of view.
In this episode the son of the family, Cem, has heartbreak. He caught his girlfriend Tugce whispering with another boy. He dumped Tugce and hit the boy. Sadik is proud of his boy and says he did the right thing, whereas Betüs can’t believe that of Tugce and thinks that there must be a misunderstanding. They start fighting about this and Sadik makes a very hurtful remark to his wife. This is very bad timing as it is Cem’s birthday, and his classmates are coming. Sadik and Betüs had planned to go for dinner alone, but that is now canceled.
“I can’t believe you, Sadık! Your son says he beat up a classmate, and you’re proud of him!”
Dudu who saw everything through her magic crystal ball is happy that they are fighting without her even casting a spell around them. She expects both daughters to live with her soon.
But Eda has other plans, she wants to marry a mortal, which her mother is strictly against, so she leaves the castle.
Umur asks Dudu to marry him, and she agrees under the condition that they first live in their own houses until they got used to each other.
Eda’s plans fail, as she had used a spell again to make the man fall in love with her, which only lasts 24 hours. She meets with Betüs in the café, with Perihan also there. Suzan, Avni’s wife also comes there as Avni is still seeing fairies, about which Suzan is unhappy. Dudu also appears and is gloating with her plan to get married. Her daughters protest, as Dudu is against fairies marrying mortals, and now she plans to do the same.
-Eda: “So, if you are going to prevent me from marrying a Human, then I will prevent you from marrying a Human.”
In the end there are three parties:
– The birthday party, where Cem is dancing with his sister’s friend for Tugce’s friends to see, which is supposed to make her jealous. Tugce comes to deliver her present to Cem, which was the reason why he was whispering with the boy, he knew how to get a special kind of sneakers. After that is explained, all is forgiven and forgotten.

– A man’s party at Avni’s place, where Sadik and Umur go.

“…I don’t think I can live without Betus.”
– A girl’s party in the café.

The other two parties end well, when the men go over to the café to tell their women that they love them, and they are being forgiven.
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Many, many thanks to Birgit, of the Stella, oh, Stella blog, for all of the of the English and image content, today.
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This is a fantastic episode from Mahmud’s point of view! Also, we see the high importance in Turkish culture of talking things out with others (even to my surprise,
back when I worked in Izmir, when someone has clearly done something that we Americans would generally consider imprudent…) Who is Mahmud? He is the son of Firuze, the housekeeper. They are poor, but in an unusual step, the kids invite him to Cem’s birthday party in spite of this, and at first, Cem’s classmates show poor Mahmud that he is not welcome, until little Cilek gets him up to dance. Then, the real fun begins. When the music (European/Latino pop music which all of the middle and upper classes in the big cities like Istanbul, Izmir, and Ankara, listen to…) goes out, all they have is a little radio that Firuze listens to in the Kitchen while cooking. The songs are all traditional on the radio, and these middle class kids, used to American, Latino, and European music, do not have a clue what to do with it.
When a traditional “Zeybek” comes on the radio, Mahmud, used to what is considered the poor or lower class traditional music, gets up to dance! And these ‘rich’ kids learn from him!! This was a tears of joy moment for me, as I also happen to love the history and style of the traditional Zeybek (claimed by the Greeks as the Zeibekiko), and it’s fierce spirit.
Thank you again, Sihirli Annem, for pointing out that everyone has some part to contribute and to teach, if we will only listen instead of assume!
What a beautiful episode ending!!
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Hoşça kalın!
Shira
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