Imprisoned for 30 Years, He Wooed Her With Love Poems
When the Kurdish poet first declared his love, the woman who was the focus of his feelings didn’t take him seriously. “How could I?” asked his beloved, Ipek Ozel. “I was the only woman he had seen in decades.” At the time he conveyed his affections, in 2019, the poet, Ilhan Sami Çomak, was serving…
