On the Trail of Rebellion

When the oppression of the Seljuk and Ottoman sultans made life unbearable for them, the social design that the Anatolian people turned to was the primitive egalitarian tribal democracy they had known for hundreds of years and from which they had come. The fights and sacrifices made for this egalitarian utopia, which moved away from its true meaning as the economic basis of the society became more complex and nomadism lost its historical basis, could not ensure the replacement of the military feudal Ottoman State with a classless society, but the poor, longing to live freely in the steppes, destroyed the foundations of this despotic state with each of their rebellions. They made it easier for him to get up. Today, the spirit of rebelling against the oppressor and living and working in common, which remained from their uprisings, seeps into contemporary freedom struggles through popular culture and provides the historical basis on which their local sensitivities to the socialist struggle will develop.

In order to erase from the collective memory the knowledge of the centuries-long rebellions of the western sects that rebelled against the tyranny of the Seljuks, Ottomans, and the rebellions of the Kurds, Armenians, Greeks, and Macedonians, the ruling classes had to work in schools, barracks, in the press and media, in religion and religion. Their efforts in the religion were not in vain. The rulers of the Republic have never been left behind - and now their Islamist successors are struggling to take their place. Each new generation that rose up without a revolutionary memory, without the knowledge of previous generations being added together, was left with the naivety of a child in the face of a sovereignty mechanism that had the common legacy of an entire revolt experience...

As new generations follow the footsteps of rebellion, their folk songs always contain the same cry: Equality!
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 240

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Footnote

Number of Pages: 240

First Printing Year: 2013

Language Turkish