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Story summary
- Ilhan Sami Çomak, a Kurdish poet, declares love for Ipek Ozel, a volunteer visiting inmates, while serving a life sentence in a Turkish prison.
- Ozel initially dismisses his feelings.
- Their story unfolds amid Turkey's long-standing conflict.
- Çomak, born in 1973 to Alevi farmers near Bingöl, recalls childhood and unawareness of minority status.
- He later found solace in Turkish, a language enforced by schoolteachers.
