User:MuratE1922

Yusuf Ziya Arpacık

Born in Erzurum on 1st of May, 1958. His childhood years had been full of struggles against difficult natural conditions, and as he became a young man, he had found himself in the middle of the stormy period of social conflicts and belligerence. As he studied History at the University of Istanbul, he ended up in jail on February 13, 1978. While being transferred from one prison to another for quite some time, he tried to escape at numerous occasions, and was successful at two instances – once from the Sağmalcılar Prison, and the second time, from the Yozgat City Jail…

He had to spend half (ten years) of his total period of imprisonment in isolation cells when he used books to teach himself foreign languages and found opportunities to practice what he learned by talking to foreign inmates. When he was finally released, he restarted from where he left off, and went to the Caucasus in 1992 to help the people fighting at Nagorno Karabak, ran from there to Kirkuk during the occupation of 2003, went on to organize ‘physical action’ against Turcophobs and Islamophobes in many countries, actions in which he himself actively participated. Benefiting from the ‘Student Amnesty’ decree, he finally completed his education and graduated from the university he had attended, even if after 27 years.

Detentions and arrests followed one another after that, but there was no interruption in his determined march towards his target.

Married with three children, the author speaks English, Persian, Arabic, and Russian.

His foremost works include:

THE INDOMITABLE THE BEGINNING OF THE ROAD BLOOD STORM AS THE SUN RISES OSMAN BATUR