Eulogy: Salute the great son of Anatolia
Yaşar Kemal, one of the monumental personalities of Turkey’s recent history, an outstanding journalist and definitely the last grand master of Turkish literature, has walked to oblivion at the age of 91. He passed on a day when news reached news rooms around the country that the imprisoned leader of the separatist Kurdish terrorists had called his gang to convene a congress to decide to lay down arms. On a day when Turks and Kurds of this country could capture an opportunity for a “civilian democratic resolution” of the “Kurdish problem,” a great man who, with his works and words spent a lifetime to achieve peaceful cohabitation with dignity for all peoples of Anatolia, walked to eternity. A crowning coincidence? A last minute award from the Almighty? Definitely Feb. 28, 2015, will be remembered as the date when the last great master of the Turkish word passed away, if not both for mourning him and a celebration for the day that ushered “peace in Anatolia.”
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