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Gülümser's Story: Life History Narratives, Memory and Belonging in Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Leyla Neyzi
Leyla Neyzi*
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Sabancı Üniversitesi, Istanbul
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Herkesin bir tarihi var.

Herkesin bir dili.

Ne anlatır size yalnızlık

Bana, beni.

Ne anlatır size ölüm

Bana, kederli annemi.

Dokunsak ışığa…

Silinse yüzlerimiz.

Ah o gözlerimiz.

Gözlerimiz.

-Kemal Kahraman

A small, dark office in the basement floor of an apartment building in Taksim. The sound of traffic filtering in from the busy street outside. Color photographs tacked to a wall next to a secretary's desk: two young girls in red posing in the lush grass, with mountains in the background. These are the two worlds of Gülümser Kalık. One, the workaday world of the center city. The other, a small village in eastern Turkey. Memories and the dream of return.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 20 , Spring 1999 , pp. 1 - 26
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