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Osman Bey and the Snails! As our beloved colleague, Turkey's Osman Kavala spends his 900th day in jail, a group of composers and friends announce a new mini-opera, recorded in lockdown, taking inspiration from his friendship with two little gastropods.
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In this time of isolation, sadly, things have got even worse for Turkey’s political prisoners (meaning the human rights activists, journalists and opposition politicians grotesquely accused of “terrorism.”)
theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…
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Osman adopted two snails in jail. A very characteristic gesture. He is best known as a human rights activist and ambassador of culture. But his story of animal activism began in the 1980s with this intervention on behalf of turtles.
nytimes.com/1998/07/29/wor… 3/4
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