The Poetry of Northern Cyprus

Neocolonialism is a manifestation of the ongoing nature of imperialism, suggesting an indirect form of control through economic and cultural dependence where formal methods of control like the implementation of administrative structures, the stationing of military forces, and most importantly, the incorporation of the natives of subjects of the metropolitan government are still in use. This deliberate and intentional importation of administrative structures, military force and culture has lead towards an enforced change of the Turkish speaking Cypriot community. This form of dogmatic and imposed thought meant that certain words and concepts became taboo while cultural and social values were altered to suit the needs of a colonizing state. The enforced acceptance of this has slowly but surely led to a resistive and revolutionary form of poetry stemming out of Northern Cyprus...