But what to do when the repercussions of utterance, of breaking the silence leads to what happened to Şansal in January 2017 or Dink in 2007? But what to do when life is at stake when the dictatorial reign of silence is fractured? What to do if one doesn’t want to get into the economy and politics of risk-taking, playing the martyr, or the hero-complex? It is at this juncture that art, i.e. poetry, comes into play. Art and its poetic dispositions can be that space of reflection and of expression. This is one of the propositions made by the artist Viron Erol Vert.”