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Aziz Nesinin Kendine Has Üslubu Ve Kara Mizah Anlayışıyla Yazmış Oldugu Eserlerden Biri Daha…
Aziz Nesinin Kendine Has Üslubu Ve Kara Mizah Anlayışıyla Yazmış Oldugu Eserlerden Biri Daha…
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Published January 1, 2006
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Aziz Nesin
387 books1,003 followersAziz Nesin was a Turkish humorist and author of more than 100 books.
Nesin was born in 1915 on Heybeliada, one of the Princes' Islands of Istanbul, in the days of the Ottoman Empire. After serving as a career officer for several years, he became the editor of a series of satirical periodicals with a socialist slant. He was jailed several times and placed under surveillance by the National Security Service (MAH in Turkish) for his political views. Among the incriminating pieces of evidence they found against him during his military service was his theft and sale for 35 Lira of two goats intended for his company—a violation of clause 131/2 of the Military Penal Code. One 98-year-old former MAH officer named Neşet Güriş alleged that Nesin was in fact a MAH member, but this has been disputed
Nesin provided a strong indictment of the oppression and brutalization of the common man. He satirized bureaucracy and exposed economic inequities in stories that effectively combine local color and universal truths. Aziz Nesin has been presented with numerous awards in Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria and the former Soviet Union. His works have been translated into over thirty languages. During latter parts of his life he was said to be the only Turkish author who made a living only out of his earnings from his books.
On 6 June 1956, he married a coworker from the Akbaba magazine, Meral Çelen.
In 1972, he founded the Nesin Foundation. The purpose of the Nesin Foundation is to take, each year, four poor and destitute children into the Foundation's home and provide every necessity - shelter, education and training, starting from elementary school - until they complete high school, a trade school, or until they acquire a vocation. Aziz Nesin has donated, gratis, to the Nesin Foundation his copyrights in their entirety for all his works in Turkey or other countries, including all of his published books, all plays to be staged, all copyrights for films, and all his works performed or used in radio or television.
Aziz Nesin was a political activist. After the 1980 military coup led by Kenan Evren, the intelligentsia was oppressed. Aziz Nesin led a number of intellectuals to take a stand against the military government, by issuing the Petition of Intellectuals (Turkish: Aydınlar Dilekçesi).
He championed free speech, especially the right to criticize Islam without compromise. In early 1990s he started a translation of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. This made him a target for radical Islamist organizations, who were gaining popularity throughout Turkey. On July 2, 1993 while attending a mostly Alevi cultural festival in the central Anatolian city of Sivas a mob organized by radical Islamists gathered around the Madimak Hotel, where the festival attendants were accommodated, calling for Sharia and death to infidels. After hours of siege, the mob set the hotel on fire. After flames engulfed several lower floors of the hotel, firetrucks managed to get close, and Aziz Nesin and many guests of the hotel escaped. However, 37 people were killed. This event, also known as the Sivas massacre, was seen as a major assault on free speech and human rights in Turkey, and it deepened the rift between religious- and secular-minded people.
He devoted his last years to fighting ignorance and religious fundamentalism.
Aziz Nesin died on July 6 1995 due to a heart attack, after a book signing event in Çeşme, İzmir. After his death, his body was buried in an unknown location in the land of Nesin Foundation without any ceremony, as suggested by his will.
Nesin was born in 1915 on Heybeliada, one of the Princes' Islands of Istanbul, in the days of the Ottoman Empire. After serving as a career officer for several years, he became the editor of a series of satirical periodicals with a socialist slant. He was jailed several times and placed under surveillance by the National Security Service (MAH in Turkish) for his political views. Among the incriminating pieces of evidence they found against him during his military service was his theft and sale for 35 Lira of two goats intended for his company—a violation of clause 131/2 of the Military Penal Code. One 98-year-old former MAH officer named Neşet Güriş alleged that Nesin was in fact a MAH member, but this has been disputed
Nesin provided a strong indictment of the oppression and brutalization of the common man. He satirized bureaucracy and exposed economic inequities in stories that effectively combine local color and universal truths. Aziz Nesin has been presented with numerous awards in Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria and the former Soviet Union. His works have been translated into over thirty languages. During latter parts of his life he was said to be the only Turkish author who made a living only out of his earnings from his books.
On 6 June 1956, he married a coworker from the Akbaba magazine, Meral Çelen.
In 1972, he founded the Nesin Foundation. The purpose of the Nesin Foundation is to take, each year, four poor and destitute children into the Foundation's home and provide every necessity - shelter, education and training, starting from elementary school - until they complete high school, a trade school, or until they acquire a vocation. Aziz Nesin has donated, gratis, to the Nesin Foundation his copyrights in their entirety for all his works in Turkey or other countries, including all of his published books, all plays to be staged, all copyrights for films, and all his works performed or used in radio or television.
Aziz Nesin was a political activist. After the 1980 military coup led by Kenan Evren, the intelligentsia was oppressed. Aziz Nesin led a number of intellectuals to take a stand against the military government, by issuing the Petition of Intellectuals (Turkish: Aydınlar Dilekçesi).
He championed free speech, especially the right to criticize Islam without compromise. In early 1990s he started a translation of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. This made him a target for radical Islamist organizations, who were gaining popularity throughout Turkey. On July 2, 1993 while attending a mostly Alevi cultural festival in the central Anatolian city of Sivas a mob organized by radical Islamists gathered around the Madimak Hotel, where the festival attendants were accommodated, calling for Sharia and death to infidels. After hours of siege, the mob set the hotel on fire. After flames engulfed several lower floors of the hotel, firetrucks managed to get close, and Aziz Nesin and many guests of the hotel escaped. However, 37 people were killed. This event, also known as the Sivas massacre, was seen as a major assault on free speech and human rights in Turkey, and it deepened the rift between religious- and secular-minded people.
He devoted his last years to fighting ignorance and religious fundamentalism.
Aziz Nesin died on July 6 1995 due to a heart attack, after a book signing event in Çeşme, İzmir. After his death, his body was buried in an unknown location in the land of Nesin Foundation without any ceremony, as suggested by his will.
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February 28, 2021Ozellikle kitabin ilk oykusu cok hosuma gitti. Burokrasiyi cok iyi elestiren bir oyku. Zamaninda Sovyet burokrasisini elestiren oykuler okumustum, onlara benzettim. Oykulerdeki mizahi unsurlar da gayet yerinde. Uslup olarak biraz zayif fakat icerik olarak ilgi cekici.
July 5, 2017
Aziz Nesin'e bir diyeceğim yok, okuması her zaman keyifli bir kalemdir. Yalnız bu öyküleri kim derlediyse çok kötü iş çıkarmış. Birbirinin aynı hikayeleri arka arkaya doldurmuş. Okurken aynı temalardan ve benzer durum komedilerinden ikrah geldi.
Esasen alıp okuyacağım bir kitap değildi. Bir sahafta çok ucuza bulup almıştık diye hatırlıyorum. (Üstüne üstlük bir de Aziz Nesin imzalıymış!) Bitirdikten sonra da kanaatim değişmedi. Başka kitaplarını okuyun, daha iyisi Azizname'ye bir bilet bulup izleyin; kendinize iyilik etmiş olursunuz.
Esasen alıp okuyacağım bir kitap değildi. Bir sahafta çok ucuza bulup almıştık diye hatırlıyorum. (Üstüne üstlük bir de Aziz Nesin imzalıymış!) Bitirdikten sonra da kanaatim değişmedi. Başka kitaplarını okuyun, daha iyisi Azizname'ye bir bilet bulup izleyin; kendinize iyilik etmiş olursunuz.
December 13, 2017
Ağırlıklı olarak Avrupa ile Türkiye halkı arasındaki yaşam tarzlarının karışılaştırma öyküleri bunlar; trajikomik, klasik Aziz Nesin öyküleri...
August 29, 2012
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August 13, 2025
Çeşitli kitaplarından alınmış hikayelerden oluşuyor. Hikayeleri güzel, 50li, 60lı yılların Türkiye'sine dair eleştirel mizah öğeleri içeriyor tıpkı Kemal Sunal filmleri gibi. Ama Aziz Nesin güldürmekten çok düşündürüyor.
October 28, 2025
Aziz Nesin, etrafında gördüğü sosyal, toplumsal problemlere değinirken aynı zamanda müthiş içine çeken anlatım tarzıyla okuyucuyu hem eğlendiriyor hem de büyülüyor. Kitapta geçen benzer konuların bugün de farklı şekillerde toplumumuzda var olması da kitabın zamansızlığını kanıtlar nitelikte.
July 28, 2019
Tebessüm ettirici geçmişin Türkiye'sinden hikayeler bütünü. Baş ucunuzda dursun, 15,20 dakikalık boşluk buldukça okursunuz
November 24, 2022
Kitap Aziz Nesin'in diğer kitaplarında bulunan öykülerin bir derlemesi. O yüzden aslında fark etmeden çoğunu okumuşum öykülerin. Puanı da oradan kırdım, yoksa kitap gayet keyifli.
September 11, 2023
1 günde bitti, hikayeler çok zevkliydi böyle kahkaha şeklinde bir komedi değildi tabi ama gün içine konuşacak hikayeler vardı. Tam da kendi konumu seçmişim zaten
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