Muazzez Akkaya was Karakoç's classmate at the Faculty of Political Sciences. The poem served as a secret confession of his platonic and unrequited love for her. The identity of the woman remained a mystery to the public until 2007.
For decades, the poem was a subject of immense curiosity because of a hidden message. If you take the first letter of each of its 14 stanzas, they spell out: ( My Muazzez Akkaya ). Sezai Karakoc Mona Roza