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Imagine Istanbul – One Year as a Blog

20 January, 2009 (11:29) | istanbul, Mehmet, Yilmaz |

It’s been a year since I turned Imagine Istanbul into a blog format. But if you’ve been a regular reader, you would know that my site about the search for the little boy of Istanbul has been around since 2004. I also lost the domain name for one year because it expired, I was out [...]

The Photograph of the Little Boy of Istanbul

15 April, 2008 (00:51) | Photographs, Yilmaz |

This is one of the first photographs I took of the little boy of Istanbul. I added some words from the poem “In Search of the Little Boy of Istanbul“. Someone made it into a large poster for me with Photoshop. I love this photograph because it shows everything about the little boy and explains [...]

On Finding Yilmaz Again

6 March, 2008 (09:00) | In Search of the Little Boy of Istanbul, Yilmaz | 1 comment

In his land, I want to lie down upon the harsh sand that burns the skin or to stand at the edge of a mountain where the wind blows a horrible cruel whisper like a silent shriek across the burnt sky. It is the shriek, like a scream when the mouth is open and nothing [...]

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