Halil Karapaşaoğlu
Poetry, War and Resistance in Cyprus
(08.01.2019) All over the world, independent artists and journalists are being harassed, insulted, jailed and even murdered for doing their job, speaking truth to power. While occasionally one of these men or women becomes a cause célèbre in the global media, so many more slip under our collective radar in the daily onslaught of news we endure each day. One such case is that of Halil Karapaşaoğlu, a poet and activist in Cyprus.