‘My leaves are my eyes, I look in amazement
I watch you with one hundred thousand eyes, I watch Istanbul
Like one hundred thousand hearts, beat, beat my leaves
I am a walnut tree in Gülhane Park
Neither you are aware of this, nor the police’
– Nazım Hikmet –
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I couldn’t even write a single sentence about Omay Gençsoy after she left us for permanent rest. An obituary is normally written shortly after the death of a person, but I couldn’t bring myself to write one. Perhaps I knew, as Irving Berlin would say, “the song came to an end but for me the song continued lingering.”
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Semra Eren-Nijhar 