Sipping my fresh mint tea, I gaze across rooftops bowed by age to distant viridian hills, and ponder Seamus Heaney’s precise, radiant words. Medicine has rarely
The film recounts the story of a statue of Lenin washed up on the shore of a town on the Black Sea and stolen just before an opening ceremony, scheduled to include the Turkish and Russian prime ministers.
In the wake of the Gezi protests – and through interaction with social media – a movement arose in Turkey that inspired people to write, spray and scrawl snippets of poetry on all kinds of surfaces in public spaces. It became a vibrant part of literary life in Turkey. By Achim Wagner