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Notebooks

The pages of a notebook keep the trace of a voice and of a hand. Here we publish handwritten notebooks from the village and its surroundings page by page, with a transcription of each.

Translated from the Turkish original.

Muharrem Arı's notebook: Deyiş, Nefes and Mersiye16 pages publishedThe notebook in which Muharrem Arı of Akveran (Arguvan) wrote down, in his own hand, the deyiş (Alevi devotional songs), nefes and mersiye (laments) he had collected over many years. So that it would not be lost, he entrusted it to Haydar Öztürk. It is written in a 1975 diary; a few pages are published here each day. The transcriptions are in the original Turkish.

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