Where Is Your Home?
Home is place where you feel like at home. It is not just where you rest your bones or lay your head on your bed. It is a place…
AUTHOR:
CEREN TURKKAN
The Dreamer and The Punishment
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The…
The Tainted White
White is always perceived as flawless and clean.
White always represents goodness, brightness, smoothness, light.
But it was different for me.
I met an old woman. Her beauty was clouled by her…
Truth or Dare
I am afraid of writing about politics. History and the international relations are my personal interests, actually. I want to write hostorical novels in the future but writing an…
I Know That You
I don’t know, this city,
How many leaves have gone up in the shadows?
How many tears filled the sea on the shore?
I don’t know, these rains,
How many memories come to…
Language: Immigration and Borders
Immigration
When I write, I immigrate into the language. In other words, into sound, nature, and meaning. As a Turkish poet, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca said, Turkish is the flag of…
The Unborn Sun
It was a night in the desolate, cold and lonely mountains of the east, where the brutal storms flying.
Dawn was approaching.
They were walking for a long time. The Tall…
Migrant Pens
To my point of view, in Turkey, there are three differents cultures, The East, the West and the culture which is stuck between East and West. This is very…
Love Story
“Reading a good novel is as difficult as writing a succesful novel,” says Goethe. Many people claim that they read a lot of books, but there are different ways…
The Waves of Our Destiny
I come from a geography which the names that bind words to the soul keep magical, religious place of its culture. In a country where I was born, people…