
Turkey's EU Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu paid a visit to the grave of famous Turkish socialist poet Nazim Hikmet in Moscow on Sunday.
"Away from homeland, stripped of citizenship, he deceased in these lands as a treasured figure of our country," Cavusoglu said during his visit.
With a prolific body of work translated into more than 50 languages, Nazim Hikmet is widely considered among the most influential Turkish poets of the 20th century.
Having spent years in Turkish jails for his political views and been stripped of citizenship, Hikmet fled to Moscow in the 1950s and died in exile in 1963.
Turkish government restored his citizenship in 2009.
Cavusoglu said he wanted Hikmet's grave to be transferred to Turkey, but added that any decision regarding this could not be one-sided.
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