What a beautiful and humane song by the late RUHÎ SU, born in 1912 and died in 1985, an Armenian who was orphaned as a child and given to a childless poor family, he was from, at the time ethnicly mixed Kurdish and Armenian city of Van. He was orphaned after the Armenian genocide in 1915 in the current republic of Turkey (at the time it was Ottoman Empire). Almost all Armenians, Asyrian and Nastorian Christians, Greek Orthodox Christians as well as Kurdish Êzîdîs were wiped out through genocide and forced exile and displacement in what is now modern Turkey. Just like whats happening in Syria and Iraq now The song in Turkish Benim Kabem Însandır translates to: my Kaaba is humanity Kaaba is an Islamic site in Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which is a black stone cube shaped building facing the direction of which Muslims must turn when praying
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 14:33:18 +0000
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