Why "The Long and Narrow Road"?

I have chosen the name of this new blog from this poem by Aşık Veysel, one of my favorite Turkish poets. The sentence "May friends remember me" is also from his poetry. Here is the English translation for the poem which gave the blog its name: 

I'm on a long and narrow road,
I walk all day, I walk all night,
I cannot tell what is my plight,
I walk all day, I walk all night.

Soon as I came into the world,
That moment I began my fight,
I'm in an inn with double gates,
I walk all day, I walk all night.

I walk in sleep - I find no cause,
To linger, whether dark or light,
I see the travellers on the road,
I walk all day, I walk all night.

Forty-nine years upon these roads,
On desert plain, on mountain height,
In foreign lands I make my way,
I walk all day, I walk all night.

Sometimes it seems an endless road,
The goal is very far from sight,
On minute, and the journey's o'er-
I walk all day, I walk all night.

Veysel does wonder at this state,
Lament or laughter, which is right?
Still to attain that distant goal,
I walk all day, I walk all night.

Translated by; Nermin Menemencioğlu.

Preface

So, here i am…
Back again to writing, after a long long halt…

It is honestly nice to be back and continue, not from where I stopped some several years ago, because many things have happened since then, but with a new start that I hope it would be interesting to you as readers as much as it would be to me.

Some of you might wonder about the image of the blog… It has 4 squares, 3 of them with large writings: English, Arabic, and Turkish; and one with a smaller size: Kurdish. This is because I can fully deal with the first 3 languages, and to a lesser extend with the fourth, hence the size difference.

For those of you who want a window to my older blog, please drop me a line, and I'll see what i can do.

I am back to writing because I feel I need it. I need a window, or let’s say a podium, from which I would be able to say what I think about, freely, as I used to be, with no fear except from God.

And as I always used to say:
“No one tells him what to think!”

So, welcome (or welcome back) to my blog!