Imagine Istanbul

I remember in Istanbul seeing cats everywhere roaming freely the streets of the old city. There are so many of them, I am sure, without owners. This cat I found lounging like a lazy queen, seated on a bench covered with brightly covered blankets at a mosque by the Bosphorus. She had not a care [...]

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I was interviewed last month by the Turkish-Kurdish newspaper “Yeni Hayat” in Toronto so I thought I would post the interview here for my Turkish readers. The original poem “In Search of the Little Boy of Istanbul” appeared in a previous issue of the newspaper – in Turkish and Kurdish. I have asked a friend [...]

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