Millennium Poet OSMAN TÜRKAY

When hundreds of millions of people are starving in Africa, India, and Latin America; when the world spends about 700 billion US dollars on defends; and when the ghastliest universal holocaust is threatening Homo sapiens daily, the celestial voice of a wondrous poet who preaches world order, peace and love becomes the harbinger of an ineffable paradise.

Prof. Dr. Panos D. Bardis - Toledo University, 1988

Osman Türkay has always kept a delicate balance between science and the humanities.

Muzeffer Uyguner - PEN Bulletin of Selected Books, 1977

In Türkay’s poetry there is no space, but multiple spaces and places; there is not time but different levels of times; there is no world the microcosm, but the universes the macrocosm and at the point where the horizons cease to exist, the void begins in which we travel in the plurality of times and spaces.

Krishna Srinavas - President, World Poetry Society Intercontinental, India, 1988

He always expressed his longing for Cyprus and he always mentioned how proud he was to be a Cypriot. He always put forward his Turkish Cypriot identity in every conference, seminar, meeting and literature events he attended.

Mustafa Gençsoy - Chair, Cyprus Turkish Association-UK, 2011

In the lyric works of Türkay, either in English or in Turkish, we meet a poet writing from deep, inner necessity, combining science and inner space vision, a distinctive personality who, no doubt, deserves one of our highest Prizes in Literature.

Jan Anker Froydarlund - Poet, Norway, 1977

As all the internationally respected critics across the world who have gone through this long Dantesque poem, asserted that Mr.Türkay created a masterpiece of modern poetry by portraying the world and man as seen in this space age and by travelling beyond the universes.