seviyor is more passionate.

Yes, it is possible to love from a distance!

It is like a prisoner looking at freedom

from behind bars.

It seems that instead of saying "Ömer" I said "Emre", sorry father.

Does one of them have to be wrong?

There are two "passives" in Turkish actually, the classical Latin type passive which exists in English also and the impersonal which can be formed out of intransitive verbs and which denotes an action which is performed by some people who we do not want to define now. I suggest the first sentence

                          İçecekler satılmaya başlandı

represents the impersonal, meaning something like ´some people began the action where drinks are sold´ and the second sentence

                          İçecekler satılmaya başladı

is the classical passive sentence, ´drinks began to be sold´.

Is there a third option

                          ?İçecekler satmaya başlandı     ?

I want > ben istiyorum

You want what?

I want milk. > Ben süt istiyorum.

I want to cry. > Ben ağlamak istiyorum.

I want to go home. > Ben eve gitmek istiyorum.

Keep your PM´s boring enough.

Ok, thanks rumeysa.

These were probably the most difficult sentences I have tried to translate for a long time. But I got curious, I wish someone would check them and give the correct answers.

Life is too short to wait

Hayat bir şeyi bekleyerek geçirmek için çok kısa. 

Never allow yourself to be defined by someone else´s opinion of you

Asla başka birinin görüşünün seni tanımlamasına izin verme. 

İf I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote control

Kontrol edileceğim olsaydı uzaktan kumanda aygıtıylı olarak gelirdim.

You can´t start the next chapter of your life, if you keep re-reading the last one.

Öncekini tekrar tekrar okuyup duruyorsan hayatının yeni bölümüne başlayamacaksın.

I rise, I fall, I make mistakes, I live, I learn, I´ve been hurt, I´m human and I´m not perfect but I´m thankful.

Kalkarım, düşerim, hata yaparım, yaşarım, öğrenirim, kırıldım. İnsan, mükemmel değil ama minnettarım.

Yes it makes one think. Actually about two things:

1. How old is the earth and how short is our life on it. I mean, if Istanbul shakes again after forty years geologically it is almost like today but in the human lifespan it makes a huge difference.

2. How effectively the human brain protects itself against the thought of disaster and death. We may think about the danger for fifteen minutes but no one loses his night´s sleep because probably one day in the future an earthquake will strike and kill thousands. Before I used to think it is living on the bedrock that gives this peace of mind but it is not: it is written in our brain.

1509, 1766 ve 1894 İstanbul depremleri

http://avnidincer.8m.com/1894depremi.html

http://www.angelfire.com/de2/zelzele/istanbul2.html

https://eksisozluk.com/22-mayis-1766-buyuk-istanbul-depremi--614416?nr=true&rf=22%20mayis%201766%20buyuk%20istanbul%20depremi

In the view of seismic investigations the biggest earthquake in Istanbul during the Ottoman Empire took place on September 10th 1509. Its epicentre was on the islands and it measured more than 7.4 in the Richter scale. 5000-6000 people lost their lives, huge material damage was suffered. The earthquake caused a tsunami which brought the waves up to the streets of the city. People called the incident Küçük kıyamet ‘a small doomsday’.

The 1766 earthquake befell early in the morning on the third day of eid-al-adha. The death toll was about 4000, among many other public buildings big parts of the Topkapı sarayı were damaged so that the Sultan had to dwell in a tent in the palace garden for quite a long time.

The last powerful earthquake happened in Istanbul in the summer 1894. The disaster was widely described in the newspapers as follows:

Kapalıçarşı kelimenin tam manasıyla "bir facia yeri" idi. Öğle vaktinin halk ve esnaf kalabalığı, çarşının sokaklarından dışarı fırlamaya çalıştı. Fakat sarsıntılardan kapılar kapanmış ve Kapalıçarşı´nın duvarları, içeride kalanların üzerine çökmeye başlamıştı. Sonunda, Kapalıçarşı´nın kubbeleri de çöktü! The Grand Bazaar was a scene of disaster in the full meaning of the word. The midday crowd, public and salesmen, tried to rush out from he streets of the bazaar. But the doors were closed by the quakes and the walls of the Grand Bazaar began to fall down over those who were inside. In the end even the domes of the Grand Bazaar collapsed!

"En yüksek sınıftan kadınların, saç baş dağınık, ürküntü içinde veya üstlerine yalnızca bir sabahlık, bir kombinezon veya jüponla kaçtıkları görülebiliyordu. Her yerde çığlıklar, gözyaşları, ağlamalar, sinir krizleri, bayılmalar, Allah´a, Meryem´e yakarmalar duyuluyordu." Noblewomen were seen escaping with their hair disheveled, only wearing a robe or a petticoat. Screams, tears, crying, nervous breakdowns, faintings, invocations to Allah and St. Mary were heard everywhere.

Denizdekiler mavnalardan, balıkçı teknelerinden, Şirket-i Hayriye vapurlarından kente baktıklarında, çöken binalardan yükselen toz bulutlarını görmüşlerdi. When those at sea looked at the city from their barges, fishing boats, vessels of the steamship company, what they saw was clouds of dust rising from the collapsing buildings.