Victory of The Good
The Night of Wishes (Pegasus Yayınları, 2017) can be examined along with Michael Ende’s other book Momo. Michael Ende treats the issue of evil in…
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Whistle
There is this thing called road conditions. There are road songs, road rhymes. There are also some people like me, who call these actually the…
Beyond Friendship and Hostility
Konuşanlar, Bir Hüzünle Sesinde (2015, Can Publications) consists of Ziya Osman Saba’s articles, talks, and letters, which were published in magazines and newspapers. Sincerity is…
The Grasshopper
There are two g’s (g and ğ) in the Turkish alphabet. Each one is softer than the other. One is at the beginning of August…
Taking Accounts of All Contradictions
Tarık Buğra may be compared with Kemal Tahir in terms of investigating, questioning and telling all aspects of the topics he treated. The concern of…
Life
Choice of words makes a difference sometimes. I am not talking about loss or gain of meaning but difference... When someone mentions being alive we…
EXPLORER
It is not confounding nor a coincidence that letters and words set off on a journey to such an article when exploring is mentioned... No…
What The Poet Calls on to The Train
Who and what is he calling? Love, pain, joy, sadness, childhood, aspirations, thoughts... Mostly poetry... Haydar Ergülen calls on poetry to help, to express the…
Philosopher
I don't know if the journey needs philosophy, but philosophy needs a journey. The journey makes those who set off on it a philosopher. Imagine…
Away From White Men
Typee-A Peep at Polynesian Life (Yapı Kredi Publications, 2nd print, 2013) is Herman Melville’s first novel. Its being a novel or an autobiographic narration is…
A Raillover Poet
I used to consider myself as a train poet until I met with the Raillover Poet last year. I realized then, that writing train articles,…
An İstanbul Gentleman: Asaf Hâlet Çelebi
Before saying anything else, let me express that Asaf Hâlet Çelebi is an intriguing person. He was able to achieve attracting attention to himself in…
Haydarpaşa’s Cat
Young poets seek poetry in books; they read it in books, and they want to write of their own. They read; they write; they write;…