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Turkey Says Adieu to Yaşar Kemal

Turkey Says Adieu to Yaşar Kemal

Following the funeral ceremony at Istanbul’s Teşvikiye Mosque this afternoon, Yaşar Kemal was buried in Zincirlikuyu cemetery.

Yaşar Kemal: First Duty of Art is Uprising

Yaşar Kemal: First Duty of Art is Uprising

Author Yaşar Kemal has been awarded with Bjørnson Prize by Norway’s Literature and Freedom of Expression Academy. “Nobody should forget that every war is a death order,” he said at a panel after the award ceremony.

14 November 2013 Deniz Alan Held

Yaşar Kemal: I Wish Turkey Would Be Like My Village

Yaşar Kemal: I Wish Turkey Would Be Like My Village

Speaking at the opening ceremony of a park and culture house dedicated to his name in his native Hemite village, author Yaşar Kemal reminded that he was never discriminated in his village due to his Kurdish ethnicity and wished “Turkey to be like his village”.

Yaşar Kemal Speaks out on Kurdish Question

Kurdish Question

Yaşar Kemal Speaks out on Kurdish Question

In an interview series with the Radikal newspaper, novelist Kemal spoke about a solution to the Kurdish question.

Kurdish Writer Uzun’s Last 15 Months

Writer Şeyhmus Diken has written a book about the last fifteen months in Kurdish writer Mehmed Uzun’s life. The book also features an introduction by Yaşar Kemal.

16 January 2009