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Turkish poetry’s blue-eyed giant Nazım Hikmet commemorated on 52nd death anniversary
Officials from Turkey's Moscow Embassy, along with many other Turkish and Russian guests that include artists, writers and journalists, participated in the ceremony held at Moscow's most famous cemetery, Novodevichy.
Hikmet is regarded among main pillars of modern Turkish literature. He gained worldwide fame for his anti-imperialist and anti-war stance, embodied in his famous poem "The Little Girl of Hiroshima." The poem is about a girl who died in the Second World War, when a nuclear bomb was thrown at Japan's Hiroshima city.
Born in Thessaloniki, then part of the Ottoman Empire, Hikmet's father was a Turkish-Circassian government official, while his mother's family had two pashas of Polish and German origin. Hikmet graduated from Ottoman Naval School in 1918, and briefly served as a naval officer until 1920. He later joined the Nationalist government in Anatolia and served as a teacher, then headed to Moscow over Batumi to study and to experience early years of Russian Revolution.
His first poetry book was published in the USSR
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POETITORIAL: Remembering a poet attach importance to exile
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Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet remembered on 55th death anniversary
Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet was commemorated in a ceremony Sunday on his 55th death anniversary at the famous Moscow cemetery of Novodevichy.
Hüseyin Diriöz, Turkish ambassador to Russia, said in a speech that Hikmet has value for both Turkey and Russia, and his messages for humanity in his work have echoed not only in Turkey but throughout the world.
Turkish artists Zülfü Livaneli, Edip Akbayram, Genco Erkal, Sıla Gençoğlu and Hikmet's stepdaughter Anna Stepanova were among the prominent Turkish and Russian guests of the ceremony.
Hikmet's poems were recited during the ceremony and the group later laid clovers on his grave.
Several other programs were also planned in Moscow to commemorate the "blue-eyed giant" of Turkish poetry.
Hikmet is regarded among main pillars of modern Turkish literature. He gained worldwide fame for his anti-imperialist and anti-war stance, embodied in his famous poem "The Little Girl of Hiroshima," which describes a girl killed by the nuclear bomb detonated at Japan's Hiroshima city in World War II.
Born in Thessaloniki, then part of the Ottoman Empire, Hikmet's father was a Turkish-Circassian government official, while his mother's family had two pashas of Polish and German origin