Yaşar Kemal

Yaşar Kemal was born in 1923, on 6 October according to Britannica, in Hemite, now Gökçedam, in Osmaniye province; his family is the only Kurdish family in the village. As a child he lost an eye in an accident and saw his father killed in a mosque. A farm labourer and public letter-writer, he became in 1951 a reporter at the daily Cumhuriyet, in Istanbul. Arrested in 1950 for political activity, then again in 1971, he was given a suspended sentence in 1996 for his remarks on the fate of the Kurds. He died in Istanbul on 28 February 2015.

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