Straw-blond

Today I was walking in the old city region of Istanbul and passing a bookstore by. As always I had a quick glance at the books shown and suddenly the face of our famous poet Nazim Hikmet drew my attention. It was a collection of his poems translated into English. I rushed inside to check the book and to look if his best poem "Saman Sarısı" (Straw-blond) is also inside...and the answer is yes! Since previously I had trouble with finding the poem translated into English on internet I decided to buy the book and post it myself. The book is a wonderful collection by the way, absolutely recommended for anyone with English skills. You can find it in Amazon.

So here follows one of the best poems ever from a truly great poet, enjoy!

A Country in Construction: A Recap

I have had a sympathy for communism for all my life and still I believe in its virtues. As son of an upper-middle class family I'm in a quite privileged position in the society enjoying all the fruits of capitalism but you don't have to be a genius to foresee that capitalism is leading us to an ultimate apocalypse; it's becoming more and more clear that we have to reorganize everything starting from the distribution of resources. Communism seems to be the only real alternative, together with anarchism which doesn't seem very practical, but it has to be rediscovered and reinvented. The so called "communism" in 20th century failed terribly so in the end all the practical experiments damaged the ideals of communism so much that nowadays it has seized as being an alternative, which also meant a world order with no real opposition. One of those leaders who caused this damage was definitely the Albanian leader Enver Hoxha. Traveling through Albania will also make you reach to the same conclusion as me and hopefully reading my travelogue will have the same effect as well.

Polaku polaku to Canyon Tara and then Albania!

Well after a long break due to a project it's time to finish my travelogue. Let's start from where we left off. We were in Sarajevo, ready for another trip but didn't exactly know where.