announcing dreams
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Cevriye Bayrı
A Turkish girl whose first words grew into 'Ramazan killed'; she spoke of being Şehide Süzülmüş, murdered with her husband and two of their children in Adana in 1957, and was said to recognise several of Şehide's friends and relatives.
İsmail Altınkılıç
A Turkish boy who from about eighteen months insisted he was Abit Süzülmüş, a farmer murdered in Adana in 1957 with his wife and two children; his father's demands for money made it one of Stevenson's most closely checked cases, and it is linked to that of Cevriye Bayrı, who remembered being the wife.
Ma Tin Aung Myo
A Burmese child who, from about the age of four, said she had been a Japanese army cook shot by an Allied aircraft in her own village during the Second World War; she was terrified of aircraft, longed for Japan and kept a firmly male identity into adulthood, but the soldier was never identified.
Wael Kiwan
A Druze boy from the Lebanese mountains who, from the age of four, said his name was Rabih and spoke of the sea, a boat and other parents in Beirut; he was identified with Rabih Assaf, a young Beirut man who took his own life in California in 1988, although Wael described being shot.