Uğur Olsun! Bir Devrimcinin Öyküsü

When he was a young journalist, Uğur Mumcu saw that the days of reckoning with the founder of our secular republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and the Turkish Revolution were approaching. He was documenting the unlawfulness and corruption that undermined rights and freedoms. He was reacting loudly to the oppression, bans, and illegal practices that would dry up the leftist vein of the country and scratch the religious and racial differences of the citizens. He was arrested and risked his life to fight for freedom without terrorism. Many of us have buried yesterday's events in our memory. We have not forgotten Uğur Mumcu, who documented to the public how the ignorant and immoral reckoning was made with Atatürk and the Turkish Revolution. This work can be considered not only the biography of Uğur Mumcu, but also of Turkey, from his birth in the 1940s to his brutal murder in 1993. In a country where social memory is weakened by the pressures of the government, we have not paid even one thousandth of our debt, especially to young people; We have a share in their birth into a country that has been severely damaged. We taught the counter-revolutionaries how to organize, we retreated; We believed that no one could touch the values of the republic; We looked at practices that contradict reason and science from the perspective of pure freedom; we were wrong The curtain opened; Counter-revolutionary players, including religious and racists, are on the stage... In the days when we are stuck in a dark process, we are looking for Uğur Mumcu a lot; but hope is endless.

There is always hope; Young people who rose up with the Gezi Resistance in the summer of 2013 wiped away the dust that settled in memories and revived hope. "One day, roses will bloom on the graves" of Uğur Mumcu, who said "We died without fear, don't forget us" and was killed by a bomb, and of all the young people and all the intellectuals who gave their lives for justice and democracy! There is always hope!
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 504

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Red Cat

First Print Year: 2014

Language Turkish