Appropriation

This project illustrates the fire at a all girls dorm in Turkey. Many little girls died because the doors were locked on them.  Using appropriation, I tried represent this tragedy. (Little Schoolgirl by Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen).

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ISTANBUL (AP) — A fire at a middle school dormitory for girls in southern Turkey left 12 people dead and 22 injured Tuesday night, a Turkish governor and state-run media said

TURKEY OUT Flames are seen as firefighters try to control a fire at a school in Adana, southern Turkey, on November 29, 2016. Twelve people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday when the fire broke out at a dormitory of the school, local officials said. "12 bodies were recovered, 22 wounded people were taken to hospitals," Adana governor Mahmut Demirtas was quoted as saying by the official news agency Anadolu. Adana Mayor Huseyin Sozlu told the private NTV broadcaster 11 of the dead were secondary school students and the other victim was a female caretaker. / AFP PHOTO / DOGAN NEWS AGENCY / - / Turkey OUT

TURKEY OUT
Flames are seen as firefighters try to control a fire at a school in Adana, southern Turkey, on November 29, 2016.
Twelve people, were killed on Tuesday when the fire broke out at a dormitory of the school, local officials said. “12 bodies were recovered, 22 wounded people were taken to hospitals,” Adana governor Mahmut Demirtas was quoted as saying by the official news agency Anadolu. / AFP PHOTO / DOGAN NEWS AGENCY / – / Turkey OUT

Little Schoolgirl by Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen, famous German artistLittle Schoolgirl by Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen, famous German artist

 

 

Kiz Cocugu

Saçlarım tutuştu önce, 
gözlerim yandı kavruldu. 
Bir avuç kül oluverdim, 
külüm havaya savruldu.

Benim sizden kendim için 
hiçbir şey istediğim yok. 
Şeker bile yiyemez ki 
kâat gibi yanan çocuk.

Çalıyorum kapınızı, 
teyze, amca, bir imza ver. 
Çocuklar öldürülmesin 
şeker de yiyebilsinler.

 (1956)  Nazim Hikmet
 

Little girl (translation) 

My hair was the first to catch the fire
My eyes burned and charred
I just became a handful of ashes
My ashes got scattered into the air 
 
There’s nothing that 
I’m asking you for myself
A child who was burned like a paper 
can’t even eat candies
 
I’m knocking on your door…
Aunt, uncle, give a signature
Children shalln’t get killed
and be able to eat candies
 (1956)  Nazim Hikmet

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