The fish stinks from the head.
More Turkish Proverbs:
Abundance doesn't know contentment, but contentment is abundance.Turkish
Every sheep will be hanged from its own legs.
Turkish
Entrust not your goats nor sheep to the unmarried Shepherd.
Turkish
To live in peace one must be blind, deaf, and mute.
Turkish
What a man is at seven is also what he is at seventy.
Turkish
Gold that is lent goes away laughing and comes back in tears.
Turkish