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Pelin Batu (born 27 December 1978 in Ankara) is a Turkish actress and television personality.
Due to her father İnal Batu's occupation as a diplomat, she spent her childhood in many foreign countries including Pakistan, Czech Republic, France and the USA. She completed high school at Marymount School in New York and also pursued musical and theatre training at Mannes College of Music. After starting literature and philosophy at New York University, she switched her subject to history and completed it at Boğaziçi University. She made her film debut in Harem Suare in 1999 and has gone on to act with several more films and TV series.
Batu also hosted a show titled Tarihin Arka Odası (The back room of history) which aired on HaberTürk with Murat Bardakçı and Erhan Afyoncu. Interested in poetry from a young age, she has written, translated, and published many poems. Her first book of poetry "Glass" was published in 2003, followed by "The Book of Winds" in 2009.
She has also appeared on the Turkish TV program Yeni seyler soylemek lazim, a part of the TRT Haber channel on 25 December 2010, in which she read her poem of "Wind of black stones" herself from her book. Having written poems from the age of eight, on this program she has admitted that even though she is an agnostic, if reincarnation existed she would be the reincarnation of the grandfather as he was also known for his interest in poetry which she is commonly compared to.
Welcome me father
On the North shores of Lapland
Welcome me father
Who knows no name
Welcome me mother
The earth here is yawning
My body is shaking
For want of a flame
Down here
Got to laugh
The kickback is ligtening
Drowning
Got to laugh
This whole mess is frightening
I follow the pollen path
Welcome me father
The lava is rising
Welcome me mother
And give me your name
We've drunk from this wellspring
Too long, too long
Dividing the hours
To measure the time
We've lived with this heartache
Too long, too long
Numbering
What's yours, what's mine
We've harboured this sadness
So long
Nursing a voice
To sing us our songs
Raising a voice