Mehmet Altun
Author

Poems

PİR ÖMRÜN ÜRYAN HESABI - X./a
Zulmün böğründe mühürdür turkish

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PİR ÖMRÜN ÜRYAN HESABI - X./b
Ben ki meşrebini unutmuş bir taşım turkish

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PİR ÖMRÜN ÜRYAN HESABI - X./c
Yaz bindiğin dalın kırıldığı furyadır turkish

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PİR ÖMRÜN ÜRYAN HESABI - X./d
Bana büyük yalanlar söyle turkish

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PİR ÖMRÜN ÜRYAN HESABI - X./e
Ben bu eşiği devirdim evladım turkish

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PİR ÖMRÜN ÜRYAN HESABI - X./f
Dağ meşrebince uludu turkish

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PİR ÖMRÜN ÜRYAN HESABI - X./g
Bir ücra oğul, bir seda-i üryan turkish

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PİR ÖMRÜN ÜRYAN HESABI - X./h
Sizin doğunuz benim turkish

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PİR ÖMRÜN ÜRYAN HESABI - X./i
Kutsal Kitapların Diliyle Kur Kelimeleri turkish

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PİR ÖMRÜN ÜRYAN HESABI - X./j
Çınar Öldü turkish

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EVZEL turkish

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RÜZGÂR turkish

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Mehmet Altun
Author

About

* 15.07.1977, Selim/Kars, Turkey
lives in: Istanbul, Turkey

Mehmet Altun (born 1977, Kars, Turkey) studied Literary Studies, Archeology and Art History and works for the Institute of Social Sciences at İstanbul University. Since 1998 he has worked as a journalist and as an editor in a publishing house. He writes literary reviews for the daily paper “Akşam” and cultural and political essays for the daily paper “Birgün“. In 2004 Mehmet Altun received the “Yaşar Nabi Nayır Şiir Mansiyonu“ Prize, in 2012 the “Ahmet Necdet Şiir” Prize and in 2013 he was awarded the Prize “Comune di Ostana – La Lingua Madre”, an international Prize for native-language poetry.

Mehmet Altun writes above all about the lives of the people in East Anatolia and he writes in Kurdish and Turkish.

In 2005 Altun founded the literary magazine “Üç Nokta” (Three Points) with two friends, and was for a while its chief editor. His columns and articles on current issues were published in the critical newspapers “Sabah Gazetesi”, “BirGün Gazetesi” and “Taraf Gazetesi”.