
Within the thousand-year tradition of Turkish folk poetry, the ancient bond between nature and humanity has never acquired a depth of meaning as profound as that expressed through the saz of Âşık Veysel. A life that began in 1894 in the Şarkışla district of Sivas and was plunged into darkness at the age of seven due to smallpox ultimately gave rise to the most luminous philosophy of nature in Turkish literature. The pinnacle of this philosophy is undoubtedly the poem “Kara Toprak,” which defines
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Bahtiyar Bora ERGÜN

Common Swift (Apus apus) is a bird species belonging to the family Apodidae, recognized by its sickle-shaped wings and spending the majority of its life in flight. This species breeds across a wide area from northern Europe to Siberia and northern Africa, and spends most of the year in Africa south of the Sahara. It is a migratory species that feeds on insects while flying and typically uses cavities and hollows in human-made structures during the breeding season. Taxonomy The Common Swift (Apus
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Hanifenur Yaman