{"id":823870,"date":"2024-05-31T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T10:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=823870"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:18:35","slug":"the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2024\/05\/31\/the-call\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CALL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Galloping from far Asia,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a mare\u2019s head stretching into the Mediterranean,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this homeland is ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wrists bloody, teeth clenched, feet bare<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and soil like a silk carpet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this hell, this heaven is ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shut the doors that belong to another, never open them again,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">destroy the servitude of one human to another<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this call is ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To live free and solitary like a tree<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and in fraternity like a forest<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this yearning is ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Translation by Robin Turner, Former English lecturer at Bilkent University.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[The translation is my own &#8211; apologies for any inaccuracies. In particular, I couldn\u2019t find a good translation for\u00a0<em>el kap\u0131lar\u0131<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; literally \u201cthe doors of strangers\u201d. I also took some liberty in translating<em>\u00a0davet<\/em>\u00a0as \u201ccall\u201d rather than the more common \u201cinvitation\u201d, but I think it fits better.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galloping from far Asia, a mare\u2019s head stretching into the Mediterranean, this homeland is ours. Wrists bloody, teeth clenched, feet bare and soil like a silk carpet this hell, this heaven is ours. Shut the doors that belong to another, never open them again, destroy the servitude of one human to another this call is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":823872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[8115],"class_list":["post-823870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-nazim-hikmet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}