2008 Isolated Man Awards

"I am the Isolated Man," said a female friend after she watched the movie. "I am afraid of commitment, I loathe the idea of big weddings even when they are not my own and try to find faults with someone as soon as I grow attached to them ... I am more and more alone, not to mention lonely."

Ooops, Mr. Irmak, you have done it again. After your "My father and son," we were all victims of the 1980 military coup. After "Ulak" (The Envoy), we were all travelers. And now, we are all the Isolated Man.

Erospolis, always ready to bow to popular culture, hands out the Isolated Man Awards of 2008 as we conclude the year.

Isolated Man Award in Politics
"Everybody hates me, no one votes for my party, in the last elections, people said that my party would get more votes even if it had no president after all," said Deniz B. as he received the award in the shape of six arrows.

He stressed that he agreed with Irmak’s "The Isolated Man" because he knew women to be trouble: "You embrace a woman with a headscarf and you are in trouble ... You integrate a woman in your circles and she embarrasses you with racist remarks."

Isolated Woman Award in Politics

"No one understands me since my husband passed away," said Rahşan E. as she took the award shaped like Rodin’s Kiss. "To be honest, I was under the impression that even he did not understand me too well in his last few years. Having said that, perhaps he did not understand, period. My party has completely abandoned me and me, them. Gone are the days that young politicians came to me before they went to see my husband. Ah, it used to be said that we had a party of two, my late husband and I. I’d like to say we were two people with a single mind. Does anyone appreciate that nowadays? The only recent letter of thanks I received was from a rapist who thanked me for his freedom due to an amnesty in my name."

Isolated Man Award in Culture
"I shot a film and my whole life changed," said Can D. paraphrasing the famous sentence of Orhan P., who won last year’s Isolated Man Award. He refused to say anything else as he received his award shaped like an Oscar.

Isolated Woman Award in Culture
"This is the first year that I did not have a new husband," said Yeşim S - (ex-I, ex-U, ex-I, ex-I) as she took the award shaped like a diamond necklace. "People think I am a gold-digger, but nothing could be further from the truth. My fortune is made with my musical career. All my husbands agreed that I sang well. I no longer have a lot of encouragement. 2008 was not a good year except for this award."

Isolated Man Award in Foreign Politics
No one was given the award because the top candidates rejected it. Mr. S said he was no longer isolated and had found (again) the woman of his life whose voice should sink a thousand ships.

Mr. B said he was not isolated; he still had his father, B Senior. The last candidate, Mr. Havel K. said he would be too busy sabotaging the EU from within in the next six months to bother with awards.

Isolated Woman Award in Foreign Politics
The award was sent by post to Mrs. Rachida D, who had sent a brief message to apologize for not being there. "I am on a permanent maternity leave," said the Justice Minister of France. "It is true that I am afraid of commitment in private life but the commitment and the loyalty I would like to see in public domain is not there either."