My try for the second paragraph ;
Uzak ve bilinmez masal adalarından gelmişe benzeyen süt gibi beyaz martılar etrafımızda uçuşuyorlar, çıkardıkları tatlı ve derin sesleriyle şehirde kalmış, kalabalıktan, uğraşmalardan, hırslardan, kederlerden bunalmış zavallı insanları kendi vatanlarına, gerçekten pek uzak, tenha, sakin yerlere biraz aşk ve şiir tatmak için çağırıyorlardı. Lacivert dalgalar içinde bir masal, bir efsane köşkünü andıran Kızkulesi hayalime dokunuyor, ruhumu, hissimi beyaz ve aydınlık dualarıyla uyutarak aklımdan bütün çevremin, semtimin yankılarını siliyordu. Artık vapurda olduğumu unutuyordum. Ömrümde her gün birkaç şiir okuyan ve düşünen bir adamın, o tuhaf ve hastalıklı hali etrafımı bozuyor, Üsküdar ve Selimiye yakalarındaki evleri, kubbeleri, minareleri, selvileri, hatta koca Tıp Fakültesini ve koca kışlaları silerek hiç görmüyor; onların yerine, alanlarından gümüş ve elmas şelaleler akan, serin gölgelerinde çıplak ve pembe çiftler öpüşen, balta girmemiş çam ve kayın ormanları yapıyordum.
The snow-white sea gulls which look like as if they came from the distant unknown islands of fairy tales, were flying over us and by their deep and sweet voice they were inviting people to their land. The poor people who had to stay in the city, who are depressed by the sorrows, rages, crowd, daily struggles. To the lands that are really far, quite and peaceful places. So that people can have some taste of love and poem. The maiden´s tower -that is resembling to mythical and fabulous place in dark blue waves - was touching onto my dreams and wiping out echoes of my town and my neighbourhood from my mind by putting my soul and my feeling into asleep with its white and luminous prayers. I reached to a point that I almost forgot I was in a ferry. That sickly and strange state of a man -who was thinking and reading couple of poems everyday in his life - was spoiling my surroundings. I was in such a state that I was no longer able to see neither the houses in Üsküdar and Selimiye districts, domes, minarets, cypreas trees nor even the massive Medical Faculty and barracks. I wiped them all out of my mind. Instead of them ,I was picturing the virgin beech and pine tree forests wherein naked and pink couples kissing each other under its cool shades and the silver, diamond waterfalls flowing in its squares.
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