To meet New people, visiting new countries and welcoming new people, and sharing new ideas and listening to their stories.

Music: jazz, folk and ethnic music. Books: Louis Aragon, Arthur Rimbaud Vladimir Mayakovski Furuğ Ferruhzad Fyodor Dostoyevsky Friedrich Nietzsche Franz Kafka Nazım Hikmet Virginia Woolf Federico Garcia Lorca Albert Camus Jean Paul Sartre Milan Kundera Samuel Beckett Lev Tolstoy Edip Cansever Ursula K. Leguin Maxim Gorki Yaşar Kemal Mehmet Uzun George Orwell Harmann Hesse Jack London etc. Pavese writes to Hemingway on October 3, 1948: "Have you ever seen the Piedmontese hills? They're brown and yellow and misty, sometimes green... You'd love it if you saw it." Your C.P. … and there is no limit to love. Movies: Art Films and Historical films My favorite movie directors: Ken Loach Krzysztof Kieślowski Theodoros Angelopoulos Jean-Luc Godard Abbas Kiarustemi Bela Tarr Nuri Bilge Ceylan Yılmaz Güney Andrei Tarkovsky Roy Andersson Wim Wenders Lars Von Trier Ömer Kavur İngmar Bergman Giuseppe Tornatore Alejandro González Iñárritu François Truffaut etc. “Hope is a good thing, perhaps the best, and good things never die.” The Shawshank Redemption