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specialist, apart from
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From 1947 to 1966 Dilan was arrested, tortured and imprisoned for 13 years for his involvement in
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According to Dilan himself, Bekas refused to believe he was the writer which most likely was due to the poem having such depth in meaning and strict lyricality.
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The first poem Dilan wrote was in 1948, at a festival, he recited the poem to the famous
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wrote the timeless Newroz melody with Dilan being the first artist to sing it on 21 March 1948. Today all over the cities of
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Dilan's colleague
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leave school and work. He was offered a job at the local tobacco company as a Clerk.
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