İsmail Beşikçi

İsmail Beşikçi (* 1939 in İskilip, Çorum ) is a Turkish sociologist and writer.

Life and work

He comes from a conservative and nationalist family from İskilip. In İskilip Beşikçi attended elementary school and then went to Çorum order to complete high school. In 1962 he completed his political science studies in Ankara. From 1965 to 1971 he worked at the Ataturk University in Erzurum as an assistant. However Beşikçi was " blackened " by Orhan Türkdoğan, a sociology lecturer from the same department because of Marxist and regional, speak Kurdish propaganda to the authorities. So Beşikçi was accused by the military coup of March 12, 1971 and sentenced to prison. Beşikçi, who now wore a doctorate, reference was also made by the University and sat up to his 1974 amnesty in prison.

After his release Beşikçi dealt more with the Kurds and their society and political situation. Because he dealt with the Kurdish issue, Beşikçi was arrested eight times and was serving a total of 17 years in prison. He was the first person convicted of "founding a secret one-man organization." Beşikçi sat from 1979 to 1987 in prison. Due to other judgments he sat until 1999 and was released because of a general amnesty. Until that time, he was sentenced to 100 years in prison and 10 billion lira. 32 of his 36 books have been banned in Turkey.

Beşikçi made ​​already in his time at the university with his writings attention. His doctoral thesis dealt with over the Kurdish Aşiret the Alikan and was entitled " Alikan Aşireti üzerine Sosyolojik Bir inceleme " ( A sociological study of the Aşiret the Alikan ).

With his other works on the Kurds, he influenced the Kurdish movement very strong, so that he had a great reputation among the Kurds.

Currently Beşikçi is free and lives a secluded life. On 29 July 2010 he had published an essay due before the 11th Criminal Court in Istanbul, inter alia, to answer charges of propaganda for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK ). Turkish and Kurdish intellectuals put themselves under the slogan " The glory of science is not alone " for his freedom.

In the Turkish language

  • Dogu Mitinglerinin analizi, 1967
  • Dogu Anadolu because Göçebe honors Aşiretlerinde Toplumsal Değişime, 1968
  • Doğuda Değişim ve Yapısal Sorunlar 1969
  • Dogu Anadolu now düzeni, Sosyo - Ekonomik ve Etnik Temeller 1969 Çapa 2
  • Bilim yöntemi, 1977
  • Bilim yöntemi, Türkiye'deki Uygulama 1 Kürtlerin Mecburi İskanı, 1977
  • Bilim yöntemi, Türkiye'deki Uygulama Türk Tarih 2 Tezi, Güneş Dil teorisi ve Kürt sorunu, 1978
  • Bilim yöntemi, Türkiye'deki Uygulama Cumhuriyet Halk 3 Fırkasının Tüzüğü ve Kürt sorunu, 1978
  • Cumhuriyet Halk Fırkası'nın programi (1931 ) ve Kürt sorunu
  • Devletlerarası Sömürge Kürdistan ( International Colony Kurdistan ), 1990
  • Bilim, Resmi ideoloji, Devlet, Demokrasi ve Kürt sorunu (science, official ideology, democracy and the Kurdish problem ), 1990
  • Bir Aydın, Bir Örgüt ve Kürt sorunu, 1990
  • Tunceli Dersim Kanunu ve Jenosidi ( The Tunceli Act and the Dersim genocide ), 1990
  • Savunmalar, 1991
  • Hayali Kürdistanın Dirilişi
  • Bilincin Yükselişi ( The rise of knowledge)

In German language

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