Movement Started to Move Nâzım Hikmet's Body to Grave in Turkey

According to this article from the Hurriyet Daily News,

Residents of a village in Bursa have started a campaign to rebury Turkey’s most famous poet, Nazım Hikmet, in their graveyard during ceremonies marking the 110th anniversary of his birth.

The inhabitants of Kıranışıklar in the northwestern province’s Keleş district said they had launched the campaign so that they could realize the poet’s will to be buried under a plane tree in a village graveyard in Anatolia. During the ceremony, residents duly planted a plane tree in earth that was taken from Nazım’s grave in Moscow.

The campaign has received support from the Kıranışıklar Village Platform, the Peace Association, Nilüfer City Council and the 68’ers Foundation.

The ceremony, which featured readings from Nazım’s poems, drew Republican People’s Party (CHP) Bursa deputy Sena Kaleli and officials from organizations and villagers.

Naızm Atak, the son of Ahmet Atak, who was in the same prison as the poet in 1942, said the goal of the campaign was to realize the poet’s biggest dream.

“My father was put in the Bursa Prison because of slander in 1942 and made friends with Nazım Hikmet there. After he was released, he changed my name from Niyazi to Nazım when I was 4. Nobody knows me as Niyazi. My grandchild’s name is Nazım, too,” Atak said.