Baki Yigit

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Baki Yigit graduated from Ankara University, Political Science Faculty, International Relations Department. After working for a Japanese company and the Turco-British Association in Ankara, he moved to Izmir to serve the Ministry of Culture. He later worked for a private bank and retired. He has been interested in literature and music since his childhood. His first short story was seen in Cocuk Bahcesi, the children’s magazine, in 1968. At a countrywide poetry competition among young amateurs in 1972, he won the third prize. He contributed to starting Karsi Edebiyat, the literary magazine, in 1986. His first translation into English appeared on Reflections, the United Nations periodical, in 1987. In the same year, he established Iz Publications to provide some young and talented poets and short story writers publish their first or second books. In 2013, he came in first place in a poetry translation competition. He publishes his poems, short stories and translations in books, magazines, anthologies and albums. He is a member of the Translation Association based in Istanbul.)

The Best Poem Of Baki Yigit

Impossible

Nobody can choose
neither his gender
nor his family
nor his homeland,
while being born.

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