Yine Kazacağız Yine Kaçacağız

It came on Friday. In the morning, the guards were worried about the journalists coming. "Will they come to us?" When we said, they said, "They are coming for you." On June 29, 1989, a large number of journalists, the cameraman of the only television channel TRT, the Undersecretary of the Minister of Justice and the Eskişehir Chief Prosecutor came. We are standing slumped over the door, which has iron bars and is tied with chains. They always ask questions in unison, all of the questions are for headlines and magazine purposes. "Wait a minute!" I said, "I will answer all your questions, but first I have something to say. We are revolutionaries, we carried out the act of escaping by digging a tunnel, which we saw as a revolutionary act and rebellion, in order to escape from the conditions of captivity we were in and continue our struggle. But we were caught on the last day, let it be known that we "We have dug before, we have dug now, and we will dig again, we will run away again."

Many memoirs and stories have been written about prisons in Turkey, especially about the prisons of September 12. Not so much, but also about escaping from prison... In this book, Sebahattin Selim Erhan tells the story of three real escape attempts. It is not just the story of the escape act, but what is told. Beyond that, we are faced with the story of a spirit of resistance. A will that resists the imposed conditions and restrictions on freedom no matter what. Erhan's narrative shows how limitless this will can be. It is also striking in its documentary aspect: It vividly depicts how the adventure of digging a tunnel from the prison is a difficult task and how it requires dealing with details that are difficult to even imagine. A unique witness to history and resistance, a story that is as good as a movie...
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 350

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Footnote

Editor: Naim Kandemir

Number of Pages: 350

First Printing Year: 2014

Language Turkish