Posts Tagged with ‘Turkey’
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The Toll Booth — Unsettled Desperation in Turkey
05 Feb 2016The Toll Booth (2014), more accurately, the” toll taker,” has a nice play on words in it, at least in…
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Swords of Ice: A Modern Novel from Turkey
24 May 2012When we move from country to country, culture to culture we recognize many things in their generalities: carpets, clothes, foods,…
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Turkey to Switzerland: Hope Drives Despair
18 May 2012As one interpretation of Pandora’s Box goes, what remains inside after all the evils are set free — hope– is…
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Paris — A Poem by Cahit Külebi
12 May 2012Paris by Cahit Külebi, translated by Vicki Tuncer and Baran Tuncer When someone mentions Paris, I think of a woman…
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Turkey: The Islands
07 May 2012It’s raining on the Sea of Marmara. It’s raining and cold. The warm cocoon of the ferry boat, on…
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The Crimean War: Orlando Figes
03 May 2012In 1853 the United States was 8 years away from a civil war. Napoleon had been defeated at Waterloo only…
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Turkey: April 23 Children’s Day Festival
23 Apr 2012The main street of Antalya, Turkey is flooded with children dressed in red and white, or in the case of…
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The Idle Years — A Short Novel from Turkey
20 Apr 2012Orhan Kemal would not be one of the widely known names of Turkish literature in the West, unlike his semi name-share,…
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Children: A Poem from Cahit Kulebi, Turkey
15 Apr 2012Prowling the bookstores on Iskitlal Street, Istanbul’s famous pedestrian walk-way, I came on a volume of poems in English Translation…
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Turkey Unveiled: A History
31 Mar 2012Turkey, whether as part of the Roman, the Byzantine or Ottoman Empires has been for millenia the hub to the…
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Memed, My Hawk — A Novel from Turkey
29 Feb 2012What a wonderful thing it is to travel to distant lands, and far-away times in the hands of a master…
