The text of HATRED was published by the large circulation Turkish
newspapaer Hurriyet on 18 July 1974, just 48 hours before the
Turkish invasion of Cyprus by order of the Bulent Ecevit
government.

Research: Leonidas Koumakis, Athens

KIN / HATRED

Kahpe Yunan bu dünyada durdukça / As long as the vulgar Greek exists in this world
Bu kin benden vallâhi de gidemez / By Allah, my hatred won’t leave me
Durup durup köpek gibi gördükçe / As long as I see him there like a dog
Bu kin benden vallâhi de gidemez / By Allah, this hatred won’t leave me
Bin Gâvur kellesi bir kin ödemez / A thousand heads of infidel Giaours cannot wash away this hatred.

Ŏç almaktur yergâne tasam / My only aim is revenge
Sira gėlse savaş meydanuna uğrasam / When my turn comes to go to battle
Bir günde bin Gâvur kellesi doğrasam / In one day I’ll butcher a thousand Giaours
Bu kin benden vallâhi de gidemez / By Allah, this hatred won’t leave me
Bin Gâvur kellesi bir kin ödemez / A thousand heads of Giaours cannot wash away this hatred.

Otuz bininin taşla ezsem başinı / Even if I crush thirty thousand of their heads with a stone
On bininin pensle söksem dişini / Even if I wrench out the teeth of ten thousand
Yüz bininin çaya döksem leşini / And throw a hundred thousand of their corpses into the river
Bu kin benden vallâhi de gidemez / By Allah, this hatred won’t leave me
Bin Gâvur kellesi bir kin ödemez / A thousand heads of Giaours cannot wash away this hatred.

Bütün dünya bilir Türk ’ün farkını / The whole world knows how superior the Turk is
Yunan ’in başina yikan çarkınt / Who crashed the Greek’s fucked world over his head
Künhanlarda yâksam beş bin kırkını / Even if I burn in stokeholes the heads of five thousand of them
Bu kin benden vallâhi de gidemez / By Allah, this hatred won’t leave me
Bin Gâvur kellesi bir kin ödemez / A thousand heads of Giaours cannot wash away this hatred

Kırk binini süngü ile pullasam / Even if I slash forty thousand of them with my bayonet
Seksen binini cehenneme yollasam / And send eighty thousand of them to the devil
Yüz binini ile çeklip sallasam / And hang a hundred thousand of them
Bu kin benden vallâhi de gidemez / By Allah, this hatred won’t leave me
Bin Gâvur kellesi bir kin ödemez / A thousand heads of Giaours cannot wash away this hatred.