Eski Datça

This guide to Eski Datça in Muğla centers on the poet Can Yücel, who translated Shakespeare into street-level Turkish, went to prison for his politics, and spent the last decade of his life in a stone house here before asking to be buried on the spot. It follows his corner table at Orhan's cafe, left untouched since his death in nineteen ninety-nine, and the village itself, nearly emptied out before residents restored it house by house. Every year afterward, his family and friends marked the anniversary at his grave with an old way of drinking with someone gone.