Nazım's Moscow

Nazım Hikmet is a Turkish poet whose place we have been unable to fill, both with his roots, his personality, and his literary depth.

Every time the Epic of the National Forces (Kuvayi Milliye Destanı) is read, different emotions and feelings emerge, and we are transported to another universe.

Of course, due to the Second World War, the Cold War, and the America-Russia algorithm, all sorts of things happened to him.

He was thrown into dungeons.

Afterward, finding a way—or having one found for him—he set out from the Kuzguncuk pier in a rowboat, reached a Romanian freighter waiting in the open Black Sea, and regained his freedom by going to Russia.

Although his life in Russia has not yet been detailed and turned into a film, we get an idea about his social and political life from the archive videos that come our way.

In the Crimean port of Odessa, he explains the pitiful situation of their peers in Turkey, stretching out on the horizon, to the Russian children he has taken under his wing.

He tells the Russian children how lucky they are, sighing slightly as he does so.

He feels sorrow for his country and the poverty of his country's children, like every patriot.

He prays that they, too, might benefit from these beautiful blessings of Moscow.

That Moscow, famous for its history and its metro stations that look like art galleries, is now being bombed by its former colony.

The bombs of the proxy country, which have reached almost to the very garden of the Kremlin Palace, have paralyzed the great Russian empire.

The great Russia, which saved the whole world from the pervert Hitler in the Second World War, cannot lift its head due to the air raids of its former colony.

Its oil refineries are being blown up.

Civilian residential buildings are being exploded.

Its former partners, who were in its sphere of influence, are falling into the hands of its rival.

It is going to the doorstep of Korea, an isolated country, for military support.

Because its soldiers, whose two-meter stature once shook the world, are out of action, it is in need of the soldiers of the world's shortest and skinniest country.

It is clear that it is paying the price for the mistakes made during the restructuring period after the 90s.

It has funneled the trillions of euros it earned from gas exports into a misguided development model.

Or perhaps it failed to funnel them at all.