Yavuz Ekinci: Die, deren Träume zerbrochen sind

In the organizer's words:

Author Yavuz Ekinci presents his new novel "Those Whose Dreams Are Broken", which was published this September.

The story of an exile who is confronted with the reality of the Kurdish resistance while searching for his missing brother is both highly topical and poetic. Yavuz Ekinci was charged with "terror propaganda" in Turkey - his writing is an act of resistance.

Çiler Fırtına conducts the interview.

Yavuz Ekinci
Those whose dreams have been shattered

Ismail has lived in Germany for 18 years and leads a lonely and sad life. He knows no one except his colleagues and is plagued by his conscience because he went into exile and not to the mountains like his brother. His father blames him for his brother's disappearance and has cast him out of the family.
One day, when Ismail receives the news that his father is dying, he sets off for home. But even on his deathbed, his father does not want to receive him. Hoping to be accepted back into the family by his father, he sets off in search of his brother. A search that takes him into the mountains, to the Kurdish regions of Iraq, where he sees the Kurdish flag raised for the first time, finds himself and begins a tender new love ...

In this novel, his most successful book in Turkey, for which he was charged with "terror propaganda", Yavuz Ekinci tells a story of Kurdish resistance and the diaspora which, in view of current events in Turkey and the debates about migration here, has an acute poetic and political urgency.