Mari Gerekmezyan

Turkey's president opened a photo exhibition Sept. 23 featuring the works of renowned Turkish-Armenian photographer Ara Güler.       

When famous Turkish Poet Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu went on a blue cruise in the 1950s with his literary colleagues, he described it as "a fairytale, untold, unwritten, unillustrated…"

Turkey's president this weekend will cut the ribbon on an exhibit featuring the works of renowned Turkish-Armenian photographer Ara Güler in Kyoto, Japan.

"My black mulberry, my forked darky, my gypsy,
What more will you be to me, my odd one, queer one,
My smiling quince, my weeping pomegranate,
My baby, my stallion, my wife."

Turkey's best-known love poem, "My Mulberry" by Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, is at the heart of the retrospective exhibition by the poet-painter in İzmir's Folkart Gallery.