Death Is Not For Us

Years of “revolution”. It is the story of a generation that realized its existence with the future imagination it envisioned and sacrificed its existence to the possibility of "a beautiful world to live in". The revolutionary march of the left opposition, the coming together of the masses, the years of turmoil when Turkey was on the verge of breaking down...
September 12, 1980. The beginning date of the "bad times" that have traces in every corner of recent Turkish history, that changed lives and eliminated a whole generation, so to speak. The interruption of a dream, the beginning of a new era...
Prisons. Castles of torture, cruelty and sheer violence, each of which has created its own dark image. And of course, the resistance, the dignified and upright stance of the bodies that risked their lives to object to the oppressor and "lay down to die" for the sake of resistance...

Many memoirs have been published about the September 12 period, but what distinguishes this book from others is the author's identity and the unique events he experienced. Today, we are faced with one of the few writers who came from what we call slums, became the manager of one of the prominent organizations of the pre-September 12 period, and wrote his memoirs. Death is Not for Us is the story of Ufuk Bektaş Karakaya, who has overcome countless difficulties in his political life, which he started from the grassroots, in the late 1970s. It is also a complete narrative, written for the first time in first person, of a death fast experience lived until one day before death.
Extending from Malatya to Cologne; The unique narrative of an extraordinary life story, full of the idea of revolution, struggle, the incorrigible prisons of September 12, resistance and escape...



Number of Pages: 526

Year of Printing: 2011


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İletişim Publishing

First Print Year: 2011

Language Turkish