beard: sakal
engineer: mühendis
moustache: bıyık
office-mate: iş arkadaşı
fluffy: bol yumuşak tüylü
Hungry: Aç
well-built: yapılı, kasları gelişmiş

Part One

Sibel lives in Beşiktaş. She works in an office in Balmumcu. She is tall and blondy . She is attractive. She is from Tekirdağ, Mürefte . Sibel has got long hair. Sibel is not married. She has got a boyfriend. His name is Adil. . Her boyfriend is an engineer. Adil is not from Tekirdağ but he is from Trabzon. He is a well-built man. He hasn't got a beard or moustache. He runs 3 kilometers everday. He is a Cim- Bom supporter. Sibel has got a cat. It is a big fluffy cat. Sibel loves her cat. The cat's name is Müzeyyen. Müzeyyen is always hungry. She gives milk and biscuits to her cat everyday. It is a happy cat. Adil likes Müzeyyen, too.

reveal: dışa vurmak
well-built: yapılı, kasları gelişmiş
Alsatian: Dalmaçyalı
Nervous: Sinirli, Gergin

Part Two

Sibel has got six office-mates. Hakan, Gülsüm, Kemal, Alper, Nazan and Rüya. They are very nice people except Gülsüm. Gülsüm is sometimes nervous. Alper loves Sibel. He can't reveal his feelings. His hobbies are cross-word puzzles music and and dogs and love-birds. He can eat five lahmacuns at a time. He has got an Alsatian. Its name is Bush.

start: başlamak
on a diet: rejimde olmak
hate: nefret etmek
join: katılmak, eşlik etmek
buy: satın almak
look at: bakmak
spend: harcamak, geçirmek
think twice: iki kez düşünmek
shop window: mağaza vitrini

Part Three

They start work at half past eight and finish at six in the evening. Sibel has a lunch break at half past twelve. Sibel is on a diet. She doesn't eat hamburgers or cakes. She hates lahmacuns. She goes to Akmerkez or to Mecidiyeköy at noon. Sometimes Rüya and Gülsüm join her. They look at the shop windows. They buy clothes or cosmetics. Sibel is a very careful girl. She doesn't spend her money on everything cheap. She always thinks twice . Sometimes she asks Rüya or Gülsüm. Rüya is twenty-one and Gülsüm is twenty-two years old.

Part Four

Rüya lives with her family in Kocamustafapaşa. She is very friendly. She hasn't got a boyfriend. She is short and chubby. She loves good food. She often eats Pide with ground beef or she sometimes eats Acılı Adana. She loves cinema. She goes to cinema every saturday with Nazan. They meet in Taksim in the afternoon. In the morning Nazan goes to İFSAK photography school in Ayhanışık street. They go to a pastry shop in İstiklal street they eat Burma or Kadayıf. After the film they eat gözleme with cheese or potatoes. İstiklal street is very busy on Saturdays. People come to Beyoğlu from everywhere. Sometimes They meet their old friends. They hug and kiss each other. They exchange their new telephone numbers.

Part Five

Sibel doesn't hang out in Beyoğlu. She likes quiet places. She walks with other people in nature. She usually walks with her boyfriend Adil. They walk on mountains. They walk on hills. They walk across streams. They meet new people every weekend. Sibel likes Menekşe Yaylası but Adil likes Kıyıköy tracks. They are tired in the evening but they are happy. On mondays they both go back to work. Adil works in Çerkezköy. He doesn't stay with Sibel Monday through Friday. He comes to Beşiktaş on Fridays. Sibel is happy with Adil. He is a great lover.They don't get up until ten or eleven on some sunday mornings.They make love and a lot of jokes in bed.Then they take a shower together. Adil likes big breakfasts. He eats sujuk and eggs,cheese, jam, olives,and cucumbers for breakfast.

talk: konuşmak
drink: içmek
divorced: eşinden boşanmış
love: çok sevmek
teach: okutmak
private: özel
married: evli
to be fed up with: bir şeyden çok sıkılmış olmak
stupid: aptal
work: çalışmak
know: bilmek
clever: akıllı
polite:kibar,nazik
Balkan Cheese: Kaşar Pey.
read: okumak
gossip: dedikodu yapmak
about: hakkında
think: düşüncesinde olmak
bitch: sürtük

Part Six

Nazan's house is in Kanlıca. Sometimes Nazan stays with Sibel. They talk for hours. They sometimes drink gin 'n' tonic. Nazan is a beautiful woman. She is thirty-one. She is divorced. She loves cinema and driving. She sometimes goes out with Harun. Harun is a university teacher.He teaches economics at a private university in Gültepe He is 41. Harun is a married man. Harun's wife is a doctor. He is fed up with her. She is a very stupid woman. She works in Kartal Araştırma Hospital. She doesn't know about Nazan. Harun never tells her about Nazan. Nazan loves clever and polite men. Sibel makes Balkan Cheese köfte for Nazan because she likes them. Nazan reads a lot of books and magazines. Now she is reading a Vedat Türkali book.Nazan doesn't like Gülsüm. She always gossips about her. She thinks Gülsüm is a bitch.

expensive: pahalı
family: aile
buy: satın almak
spend: geçirmek
jewellery: mücevher
often: sık sık
hairdresser: kuaför
red head: kızıl saçlı
luxory: lüks
long: uzun
late: geç, gecikmiş
giggle: kıkırdamak present:armağan
boss: patron
angry: kızgın
business hours: mesai saatleri

Part Seven

Gülsüm loves rich men and expensive cars. Gülsüm's family is in Çanakkale. She lives in Halidedip area in Şişli. She knows a lot of mafia men in Istanbul. She spends the weekend in Abant, Polonezköy,Assos or Ağva with them. These men buy her presents and jewellery. Gülsüm often goes to her hairdresser, Adem, in Etiler. Gülsüm is a red head now. Her hair is not long. She always talks on her Nokia 8800. It is a present from her ex-boyfriend, Nedim. He sells luxory cars in Esentepe. Gülsüm is often late to work. The boss is never angry with her. She always giggles to him. She often works on projects in his room after business hours.

Part Eight

Hakan and Alper like football. They don't drive. They come to work by bus. Hakan spends his money on horses and on Russian girls in Laleli but Alper doesn't. He lives in Haznedar opposite the municipality building. He is interested in Traditional Turkish music. He keeps love birds at home. He trains them. Alper's mother is very sick . He spends a lot of money for his mother. Kemal is married . He is an accountant He lives in Ataşehir. His family is from Konya. His wife Sakine is from Karaman. He is not a talkative man. Hakan and Alper are very talkative. They always make jokes to Gülsüm. Gülsüm is not angry with them. But she always ignores them.

bring: getirmek
want: istemek

Part Nine

Their boss sometimes takes the employees to a picnic or to a sunday brunch in Salacak or Ahırkapı. Everybody brings friends or family members there. But Nazan and Gülsüm never bring anyone. Kemal brings his wife and two children. Adil is interested in Gülsüm, too. He finds her very sexy. And actually she is very sexy. Sibel knows this. But She loves Adil very much. She is not angry with her boyfriend. She is angry with Gülsüm. Rüya is interested in Hakan, but Hakan loves Nazan. He wants her . Nazan ignores him. She doesn't like gamblers.

Part Ten

Sibel has got very nosy neighbours in Beşiktaş. They are all gossipers. They are fat housewives.These women never read newspapers or magazines. They don't like Müzeyyen. They don't like Adil, either. They are jealous women. They watch TV all afternoon. They hate their husbands.

out of charge: telefonun şarjı bitmiş
forget about : unutmak
hang up: telefonu kapatmak
realize: farkına varmak
immediately: derhal
blush: kıpkırmızı olmak
show up: ortaya çıkmak, gelmek whole: tüm incredible:inanılmaz
feel guilty:suçlu olduğunu hissetmek
tired: yorgun
tight: sıkı gergin
diamond ring: tek taş yüzük
argue: tartışmak
leave: tek etmek
crash: çarpmak
side by side: yanyana

Part Eleven

One day Sibel's 3410 is out of charge. Adil calls her but she can't answer. Adil calls the office. Gülsüm answers the phone. They forget about Sibel. They talk about twenty minutes. Sibel goes into Gülsüm's room. Gülsüm hangs up immediately. She blushes. Sibel doesn't realize anything. She picks up the Autocad CD and leaves. Adil calls Gülsüm again. They meet at a friend's studio in Halkalı 3.Etap on Saturday. Sibel waits for Adil. Adil doesn't show up whole weekend. He says he is tired on the phone. Adil is with Gülsüm. They go to Dağ Motel in Balkaya Village, Vize. Gülsüm is incredible in bed. She gives Adil great pleasure. Gülsüm is real tight. Adil is in schock. When She wants a diamond ring from Adil, Adil is not very happy.Diamond rings are very expensive.Adil has not got much money. He feels unhappy and guilty. He drinks a big bottle of new raqi. He argues with Gülsüm that night. They leave the motel at three in the morning. Adil is drunk. Adil makes an accident. He crashes a parked truck on the forest road. They both die. Jandarma send their dead bodies to Çorlu Government Hospital.

Part Twelve

Sibel learns everything on Tuesday. She sees Gülsüm's photo and Adil's photo side by side on Sabah. She is very unhappy. Actually Sibel is pregnant. She gives her cat Müzeyyen to Nazan. Nazan takes the cat to Kanlıca. Alper doesn't miss the chance! He invites Sibel out to Malta Köşkü in Yıldız Park one evening. He consoles her first. He asks Sibel to marry him. Finally Sibel marries to him. They have a wedding at a Düğün Sarayı on E5, opposite the airport in Sefaköy.Sibel moves to Alper's house. Alper is very happy about it. In time Sibel forgets eveything about the past. She quits work and she brings up her son.