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MENTIONING YOUR NAME... lighting a fire in a broken stove on a snowy winter day believing with the purest child's heart / to the good days to come it's like warming up with love for the country and people / mentioning your name no matter what slope of Anatolia it is From Taurus to Zigana / Kaçkars to Sakora lying on a flowering slope / lying on its soil it's like looking at flowing clouds in a spring season / right at dawn / to mention your name make a pillow with your arm and it's at the bottom of a rock to sing a folk song / to the larks rolling a cigarette made of thin paper / Muş tobacco blowing your smoke into the deep blue skies smelling water-sized / narcissus / violet / yarpuz it's like tying water to orchards / mentioning your name traveling on remote highway / truck bodies while climbing the paths of the Yalçın Mountains hearing shepherd's pipes / strange / is like warming up in their fire to be the chief horseman in their hooves / to gallop / to make the parrot ride in their meadows he tied al valas around his horse's sweaty neck Kiziroğlu / Köroğlu is like a challenge / To the lords of Bolu / harami palaces this is like being obsessed with my dear country mentioning your name... February 25, Alper Akçam (Photo: Yılmaz Kömürcü)