Kenan Behzat Sharpe
@kenan_sharpe
@KeymanMTS Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern U. 🌆 / book on Anatolian Rock in progress 🎸 / sometimes journalist / tweets on art & culture in Turkey 📝
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https://northwestern.academia.edu/KenanBehzatSharpe 07-05-2014 22:55:51
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Istanbul Governor's office ramps up measures to block May Day protests as unions express renewed determination to march on Taksim Square. Metro from Vezneciler-Gayrettepe to be shut, ferry services to European side to be halted and extensive list of roads closed. #1MayısTaksim
The Turkish reggae band Bosphoroots just released a moving version of murdered Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer’s “If I Must Die.”
The same day, we all read the horrific news that Refaat’s daughter, the addressee of the original poem, was also murdered… open.spotify.com/track/3AgGSQib…