Yasar İsmailoğlu (born 1945 in
Limassol
Limassol, also known as Lemesos, is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus and capital of the Limassol district. Limassol is the second-largest urban area in Cyprus after Nicosia, with an urban population of 195,139 and a district population o ...
, Cyprus) is a
Turkish-Cypriot
Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( or ; ) are so called ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Turkish Cypriots are mainly Sunni Muslims. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,000 Turkish settlers were given land once ...
poet, writer and journalist who emigrated to London in 1972 after the
1971 military coup in Turkey.
Yaşar İsmailoğlu
Soner Arifler's Home Page, 2 September 2002. Retrieved 27 August 2013
/ref> İsmailoğlu writes in Turkish and English.
Poetry
*''The Barbarian''. 1965.
*''The Daughter of Steps (Step Kızı)''. 1968.
*''Cyprus I Loved You So.'' 1980.
*''Yarımın Acısı (Anguish of my half).'' 1995.
*''The Pain of my Other Part/Why Aphrodite Why?'' 1995.
*''To Whom I Could Die (Oyy Sevdasına Kurban Olduğum)''. 1997.
*''Uzaklaşan Sesler''. 2000.
*''Ayisigi Golgesinde Erosa Yolculuk''. London: Siirler, 2004.
References
External links
İsmailoğlu reading his work.
Museum of London.
1945 births
Living people
People from Limassol
Turkish Cypriot columnists
Turkish Cypriot poets
Turkish Cypriot political writers
Alumni of the University of London
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