Caglar Ertugrul: First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar

The Mountain II

First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar

First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: Man, use the internet once for something other than porn.

First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: Join me only if you want it.
Specialist Bekir Özbey: I'll never be accepted. My leg aches even when jacking off.
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: Do you want it or not?
Specialist Bekir Özbey: Jacking off?

Ceyda Balaban: Won't Turkey send you reinforcements?
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: This is a clandestine operation. Turkish soldiers are officially not here. Only we can save ourselves.

Lieutenant Colonel Veysel Gökmusa: You want me to throw the kids he saved into the flames. My answer is no.
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: They are not kids anymore, sir. One wakes up gasping in the night... to nightmares of Sergeant Kemal whispering his wife's name as he dies. Leyla. The other wants to dedicate himself to a cause for the first time. They might be many things, sir, but they are not kids.
Specialist Bekir Özbey: If they died to make us live... then let us live, sir. Let us make others live.
Lieutenant Colonel Veysel Gökmusa: You have two months. Prepare well. The trials and classes will be hell.

Ece: [as Oguz is becoming amorous] I thought your only happiness was awareness and terror?
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: You're something terrible too.

First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: I have this theory. In essence, all men are actually invaders. Women on the other hand, are castles. One aims to conquer and occupy, proving himself. The other wants to remain secure and repel the onslaught.
Ece: So romantic.
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: But then there are some invaders... so interesting and so original... that the castle decides... to open its gates without resistance.
Ece: And you think you're one of these interesting invaders? You aren't doing great, let me tell you.

Ceyda Balaban: Sargon was a king who lived 4000 years ago. Successive civilizations built on top of their ruins. Sumerians, Egyptians, Persians, Babylonians, Greeks. All the way to our present day. Some built tombs, some placed mosaics.
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: Some drank kymyz.
Ceyda Balaban: To you, all soldiers are noble. But you see, all of those civilizations also had soldiers. In the end they fought, and killed each other for more and more. They still do.
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: Is that how you justify your hate of the military? By placing blame of war on only soldiers? Again. We don't think all soldiers are noble. Only those who serve their people.

First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: When they saved us... they thought I did what I did because of bravery. As if I were defiant before the sniper who was shooting at us. That's a lie. I was depleted. I lost. I just didn't want to leave Bekir behind. Wanting death is a weird thing. Having it be your only escape. You kind of want to fall in the dark. The thought of it becomes sweet. I still couldn't leave that mentality. What if I died there?
Ece: What?
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: Not physically. What if I can never regain my enthusiasm or normality? That is why I must go back and face that moment once again. That terror and awareness has become... the only thing that makes me happy.
Ece: The only thing that makes you happy?
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: I know, it sounds strange. You'll immediately talk about men, women and relationships... how you're hurt at this.
Ece: No, I won't. You think you're so smart. But being human is not about ending fear. It's about accepting them, moving forward despite them. I fear stuff too.
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: Like what?
Ece: Like catching cold tomorrow.

Lieutenant Colonel Veysel Gökmusa: My best friend. I chose the mission again and couldn't make it in time. He died because of me. What would you do?
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: Sir, I... my head says we need to get out. This has no end and numbers never lie.
Lieutenant Colonel Veysel Gökmusa: True.
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: But my heart, sir... it's trying to fool me. Says we can't abandon villagers to murder. Maybe, there's a chance that... we defend this place and live... then look back and say that as Turkish soldiers... we did the right thing as well as our duty.

First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: Seven years ago, Captain Yasar... caught Bekir and I cussing at each other once again. He'd warned us 20 times by then. Seeing that we were hopeless, he assigned a latrine to each... and forbid us using any other. 'You will clean your respective shits every single day,' he said. He had this smile on his face.
Lieutenant Colonel Veysel Gökmusa: He was smiling because they'd given us the same punishment back in 88.
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: We became so polite within a week.

Lieutenant Colonel Veysel Gökmusa: You will be a good officer, Oguz. Despite me. 20 years from now... hundreds of men will look to your words for everything... Some of them will be troopers, natural born soldiers. Others young and foolish. But all of them will follow your example, Oguz. If you show wisdom and awareness, they will be wise and aware... if you show loyalty and bravery, they'll grow to be loyal and brave. But above all... those under your command will live and die... by your decisions, Oguz. And then one day... you'll have to decide between what's right and the mission.
First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: The right thing is the mission, sir...
Lieutenant Colonel Veysel Gökmusa: What's right, is the right thing, Oguz. I've ignored many right things for missions.