Nazim Hikmet as a Navy CadetMavi Boncuk |
We the city of Istanbul
We saw the call to arms:
Caucasus, Galicia, Gallipoli, Palestine
Black market, typhus and Spanish flu
And the Unionists, and the long flapped German boots
914 to 918 consumed us to oblivion
Biz ki İstanbul şehriyiz,
Seferberliği görmüşüz:
Kafkas, Galiçya, Çanakkale, Filistin,
Vagon ticareti, tifüs ve İspanyol nezlesi
bir de İttihatçılar, bir de uzun konçlu Alman çizmesi
914’ten 918’e kadar yedi bitirdi bizi."
Nazim Hikmet
Nâzım Hikmet Ran (15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist.
Scientists want to exhume the body of a British diplomat who died of Spanish flu during the 1919 pandemic in hopes of discovering clues to fight possible future global outbreaks. Sir Mark Sykes, best known for his work dismantling the Ottoman Empire, was buried in a lead-lined coffin, which may have preserved enough human tissue to yield useful information on how he died and the nature of the avian flu that killed him. An aristocratic, well-traveled and talented linguist, Sykes was chosen to draw up the British half of a secret agreement to divide the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire into French and British spheres of influence, drawing lines which would eventually coalesce into the borders of Iraq, Syria and Israel. Sykes later returned to the Middle East to try to secure an understanding among French, British and Arab officials there, a marathon effort which taxed his endurance, Sykes' biographer Roger Adelson said. "He'd spent weeks burning the midnight oil trying to get these factions to agree, but he didn't succeed," Adelson said, adding that Sykes had lost weight, "so he was very vulnerable." Sykes traveled to Paris in early 1919, and he died soon afterward.
We saw the call to arms:
Caucasus, Galicia, Gallipoli, Palestine
Black market, typhus and Spanish flu
And the Unionists, and the long flapped German boots
914 to 918 consumed us to oblivion
Biz ki İstanbul şehriyiz,
Seferberliği görmüşüz:
Kafkas, Galiçya, Çanakkale, Filistin,
Vagon ticareti, tifüs ve İspanyol nezlesi
bir de İttihatçılar, bir de uzun konçlu Alman çizmesi
914’ten 918’e kadar yedi bitirdi bizi."
Nazim Hikmet
Nâzım Hikmet Ran (15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist.
Scientists want to exhume the body of a British diplomat who died of Spanish flu during the 1919 pandemic in hopes of discovering clues to fight possible future global outbreaks. Sir Mark Sykes, best known for his work dismantling the Ottoman Empire, was buried in a lead-lined coffin, which may have preserved enough human tissue to yield useful information on how he died and the nature of the avian flu that killed him. An aristocratic, well-traveled and talented linguist, Sykes was chosen to draw up the British half of a secret agreement to divide the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire into French and British spheres of influence, drawing lines which would eventually coalesce into the borders of Iraq, Syria and Israel. Sykes later returned to the Middle East to try to secure an understanding among French, British and Arab officials there, a marathon effort which taxed his endurance, Sykes' biographer Roger Adelson said. "He'd spent weeks burning the midnight oil trying to get these factions to agree, but he didn't succeed," Adelson said, adding that Sykes had lost weight, "so he was very vulnerable." Sykes traveled to Paris in early 1919, and he died soon afterward.