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Articles Book Description Dr. Beşikçi's efforts to investigate the "Eastern Anatolian Order", which has been considered a "taboo" for centuries, and to reveal the facts were deemed sufficient for his dismissal. As a preliminary measure, those who had already begun to feel uneasy about the publication of his valuable researches had for a long time taken away Beşikçi's right to give lectures, citing "scientific inadequacy". After all the methods they used to restrict the freedom of research at every opportunity were helpless in the face of Beşikçi's strength of resistance and courageous statements, Atatürk University administrators used the last weapon they had and removed him from his post. Despite everything, this silencing policy against Beşikçi, one of the pioneers of revolutionism, with the wide opportunities provided by America and the support of the government, is not without reason... - Yılmaz Öztürk, 1970 (From the Promotional Bulletin)