Selimiye Letters

“Dear child, my iron-hearted woman! One day, fears, pain and cruelty will be defeated... Mankind's indestructible faith will crush brutality... It will definitely crush... The mentality that thinks of disciplining people between stone walls and iron bars and preventing their thoughts will collapse... Stone walls, handcuffs, chains and iron doors will disappear...

Dear... Spring has come with all its birds, meadows and flowers... We are the spring, beloved, we are the ones who make spring happen... Spring will reach new springs within us... Trees, birds and flowers are beautiful with us, dear... Because we are the ones who give life to it...

My thirty-eight years old, my bunk bed and my stone wall...

My bars… My handcuffs… Swallows and

My son and my wife and my mother… All of you… Hello!”

April 5, 1974

-Yilmaz Guney

Selimiye Letters contain letters full of hope, faith and love that Yilmaz Güney, who was convicted between 1972 and 1974 on the grounds of his political views and actions, sent to his wife Fatos Güney from Selimiye Prison. These letters; Letters of a brave man, the Ugly King, who underlines that stone walls and iron bars do not prevent thinking, producing, and believing in a bright future, and that the only thing important for hope to flourish is an unyielding head.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Prepared by: Selçuk Aylar

Editor: Burak Albayrak

Edited by: Özgür Çakir

Cover Design: Hamdi Akçay

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

First Printing Year: 2018

Number of Pages: 208

Size: 13.5 x 21