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Category: The Search

The Musician Ahmet Kaya

4 August, 2009 (10:00) | Characters, Language, Music, The Search, human rights, istanbul | No comments

Once upon a time in Istanbul… There once was a musician in Turkey named Ahmet Kaya and his music was loved by everyone in the country. Now what I mean by everyone, was everyone. Be they left or right, conservative or modern, young and old, Turkish or Kurdish, he was loved by all. He sold [...]

Another Person Encounters the Eyes of Yilmaz

4 April, 2008 (00:29) | The Search | No comments

One of my readers sent me a long, superbly written comment about this website on a posting about the Café Efsane. She believes that she too met the little boy of Istanbul. It our world that becomes smaller today. Truly knowing everyone is a matter of “Six Degrees of Separation”, I believe in the theory [...]

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