Imagine Istanbul

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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“Along the Galata Bridge, men fish” is a line from the poem, In Search of the Little Boy of Istanbul, – which is exactly what they do. I don’t know if the tide is up or out, but they line up, shoulder to shoulder along the Galata bridge, thousands of fishing rods, connected to thousands [...]

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