{"id":57612,"date":"2025-03-17T06:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T03:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/?p=57612"},"modified":"2025-03-17T06:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T03:01:15","slug":"spending-10-days-with-a-living-legend-who-will-go-down-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/en\/2025\/03\/spending-10-days-with-a-living-legend-who-will-go-down-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending 10 days with a living legend who will go down in history\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-57594\" src=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/746dcde8-94a0-44ef-8b16-0d6c62370087-769x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/746dcde8-94a0-44ef-8b16-0d6c62370087-769x1024.jpeg 769w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/746dcde8-94a0-44ef-8b16-0d6c62370087-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/746dcde8-94a0-44ef-8b16-0d6c62370087-768x1023.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/746dcde8-94a0-44ef-8b16-0d6c62370087-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/746dcde8-94a0-44ef-8b16-0d6c62370087.jpeg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/>On the night between March 6th (Wednesday) and March 7th (Thursday), around 2:00 AM, Tolga came to my side. (He had sweetly fallen asleep again on the couch in the living room. When he woke up and came to our room, he quickly checked his social media to find out G\u00fcrkan was in Philadelphia, just posted his location at a park very close to us @garmincycling.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Excitedly, he said to me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cMy darling, I know it&#8217;s 2 AM, but I&#8217;m going to find G\u00fcrkan, a world-tourer, at the park. At the park next to Dalessandro\u2019s here. It&#8217;s -10\u00b0C. I can&#8217;t leave him in the park, I\u2019m going to pick him up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">I said, \u201cWhat?!\u201d and thought, \u201cEither Tolga has gone crazy, or I\u2019m having a strange dream.\u201d I decided it must be a dream and went back to sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">By morning, Tolga had already gone to work, and Alpisko and I were starting to get ready for school. At that moment, Tolga called and said he had spoken to G\u00fcrkan in the morning, and when he couldn&#8217;t find him at the park last night, he was worried. Fortunately, he found out that G\u00fcrkan had spent the night with a cyclist family from @warmshowers_org, and he invited him to stay with us tonight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">What I heard was not a dream! Honestly, I didn\u2019t know what to say at first because G\u00fcrkan had been very sick, and Tolga didn\u2019t want him to leave before he got better. As a mother, my concern in this situation was the possibility of Alp or us catching some illness. Because if Alp got sick, it would mean both physically and emotionally that we would be devastated. If I got sick, it would disrupt the entire household. If Tolga got sick\u2026 Hmm, Tolga rarely gets seriously ill, so we thought he might get over it more easily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">We measured everything, weighed it, made plans in our minds, and reorganized the rooms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">We even called @nesli_manasseri and found an Airbnb as a backup plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Finally, we invited G\u00fcrkan to our house with the most hygienic and comfortable plan we could come up with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">I didn\u2019t know G\u00fcrkan as well as Tolga, but he was now our guest. We were unprepared to host him on the first day, but fortunately, Nesli brought us tomato soup, chicken, and dessert. For the first few days, G\u00fcrkan ate with us. We had lovely conversations as much as his throat allowed, and he rested well. He met his doctor, Sine Akten Aras, my father Sel\u00e7uk Onart, and my father\u2019s assistant Fikret Kasapo\u011flu, and took his medication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">It was as if he was slowly recovering, like an injured bird. As the day approached for G\u00fcrkan to leave us, we became very sad because we had grown to love him so much in such a short time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-57582\" src=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/78e28ef5-e9e8-4482-8873-919824118e50-474x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/78e28ef5-e9e8-4482-8873-919824118e50-474x1024.jpeg 474w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/78e28ef5-e9e8-4482-8873-919824118e50-139x300.jpeg 139w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/78e28ef5-e9e8-4482-8873-919824118e50.jpeg 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Alpisko had a new \u201colder brother G\u00fcrkan\u201d now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Every morning, G\u00fcrkan would come to my side to help me dress Alp because Alp would throw tantrums, refusing to get dressed. I would end up in a sweat every time, but G\u00fcrkan and Alp got along so well, and they got dressed beautifully and even went to school together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-57584\" src=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3492-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3492-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3492-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3492-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3492-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3492.jpeg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">On the days when G\u00fcrkan felt better, we showed him around Philadelphia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">We treated him to our Philly Cheesesteak. We showed him the famous Rocky statue at the top of the Philadelphia Museum of Art\u2019s stairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-57586\" src=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3500-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3500-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3500-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3500-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3500.jpeg 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">We had Vietnamese Pho soup at the Asian market and ate soft tendons, boosting our collagen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">One day, we went to a Turkish restaurant, and despite being a traveler, G\u00fcrkan treated me to the meal with all his gentlemanliness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">G\u00fcrkan seemed to open up more and more each day, like a Matryoshka doll, with new conversations coming out each time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">He had seen so much, learned so much, read so much, met and talked with so many people\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">It was as if he had transformed into a superhuman traveler while exploring the world piece by piece on his bicycle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-57596\" src=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/d9363c66-77d3-4cc9-a8c4-d80037ad1886-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/d9363c66-77d3-4cc9-a8c4-d80037ad1886-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/d9363c66-77d3-4cc9-a8c4-d80037ad1886-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/d9363c66-77d3-4cc9-a8c4-d80037ad1886-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/d9363c66-77d3-4cc9-a8c4-d80037ad1886.jpeg 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">I didn\u2019t want March to come because, last year, on March 24th, 2024, we lost my beloved mother, Nilay Onart, to a sudden heart attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">One morning, while G\u00fcrkan was staying with us, my soul felt so dull that I didn\u2019t have the strength to leave the house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">I sent him an apologetic message saying, \u201cHow about we eat at home today, stay in, and not go out? My mom is on my mind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">While I was silently crying on the couch, G\u00fcrkan came over to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">He wasn\u2019t expecting me to be crying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">I wasn\u2019t expecting to be caught crying either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">We talked for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-57606\" src=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4473-1024x805.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4473-1024x805.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4473-300x236.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4473-768x604.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4473.jpeg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">I talked about my late mother, and he told me about his late father, \u015eeref.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">G\u00fcrkan was not only a traveler, but also a traveler who had reached the level of a psychologist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">And even a Messiah or a guest of God\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">But I think G\u00fcrkan is all of these!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-57608\" src=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20181122-WA0031-1024x681.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20181122-WA0031-1024x681.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20181122-WA0031-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20181122-WA0031-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gurkangenc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20181122-WA0031.jpeg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">As we spoke about his father \u015eeref, we discovered many similarities between him and my grandfather, \u015eeref Demirel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Both of their names came from \u015eerafettin to \u015eeref,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">My grandfather was an architect, and his father was a construction engineer\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">They had built buildings and planted forests without giving their names to them\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Two generations raised with the same philosophy\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">The conversation kept opening up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">G\u00fcrkan was such a wonderful person, and he had such a beautiful family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">We had also come to know his mother Ay\u015fe and his brother G\u00fcrhan, even from a distance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">There\u2019s much more to write but believe me, it wouldn&#8217;t fit here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">But listening to his stories, especially in his narration, is very enjoyable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">If you come across one of his talks, be sure to go, absolutely go!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">As I write this, his next talk will be on March 15th, 2025, Saturday, in Washington, D.C., USA, at @turkishcoffeelady.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">If you\u2019re around, don\u2019t miss it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">You can read his memories and follow his route live at<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur-share.inreach.garmin.com\/gurkangenc\"><span class=\"s4\">https:\/\/eur-share.inreach.garmin.com\/gurkangenc<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Finally, I would like to add,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">G\u00fcrkan Gen\u00e7 didn\u2019t just pass through Philadelphia\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">He also passed through our hearts\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">We\u2019re so glad he came!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Spending 10 days with a living legend who will go down in history is an indescribable wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">He is the exact Turkish youth as described by our Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, G\u00fcrkan Gen\u00e7!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">We wholeheartedly support all his present and future dreams, and we are always with him!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">We love you so much, G\u00fcrkan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Our home is your home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">See you again,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Onart \u2013 \u00c7etinkaya Family<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night between March 6th (Wednesday) and March 7th (Thursday), around 2:00 AM, Tolga came to my side. 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