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Canım Oğlum Canım Babacığım #1
Canım Oğlum Canım Babacığım (Mektuplaşmalar, 1965-1981) #1
Aziz Nesin-Ali Nesin mektuplaşmalarının ilk cildi olan bu kitap Ali Nesin' in İstanbul'da Kadıköy ABC ilkokuluna gittiği Vıllardan (1965) başlayarak Saint Joseph Lisesi orta bölümü (1967-1973), daha sonra İsviçre'deki lise (1973-1977) ve Paris'teki üniversite yıllarına (1977-1981) uzanan dönemi kapsamaktadır.
Ali Nesin'in ABD'de Matematik doktorası yaptığı yıllardan Aziz Nesin'in ölümüne dek geçen dönem ise Mektuplaşmalafm ikinci cildinde yer alıyor.
"Ali'yle mektuplaşmalarımızın birinci cildindeki mektupları basımevine göndermeden önce yemden ve bütünüyle okuyunca, çok duygulandım, çok etkilendim. Kendi mektuplarımı, sanki yıllar sonra başka birisi yazmış gibi okudum. Anlatamayacağım duygular içindeyim."
Ali Nesin'in ABD'de Matematik doktorası yaptığı yıllardan Aziz Nesin'in ölümüne dek geçen dönem ise Mektuplaşmalafm ikinci cildinde yer alıyor.
"Ali'yle mektuplaşmalarımızın birinci cildindeki mektupları basımevine göndermeden önce yemden ve bütünüyle okuyunca, çok duygulandım, çok etkilendim. Kendi mektuplarımı, sanki yıllar sonra başka birisi yazmış gibi okudum. Anlatamayacağım duygular içindeyim."
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First published January 1, 2010
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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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September 23, 2016
"Sevgili Ali'm, Kadife Tenli Çingene Palamutum, Canım Oğlum..."
February 13, 2022
“İnsanın doğal olarak üç hali var: Çocukluk, anababalık ve yaşlılık. Bu kitapta bir babanın çocuklarından birini en zor koşullarda nasıl yetiştirmeye çalıştığı anlatılıyor. Babanın her söylediği, oğluna her öğüdü, her yaptığı elbette doğru değil” diye yazmış Aziz Nesin kitabın önsözünde. Baba oğulun 1965-1981 arasındaki mektuplaşmaları yazım hatalarına dokunmaksızın basılmış. Nesin Vakfının kuruluş aşaması, inşaat çalışmaları, hakkında yazılan mektuplar yaşı ilerlemiş bir adamın eser bırakma çabasını ve bunu oğluyla nasıl büyük bir heyecanla paylaştığını ortaya koyuyor. Genç Ali Nesin’in mektuplarında ise Matematik, başarma tutkusu, öğrenme aşkı öne çıkıyor. Gençlerimizin bu mektupları okumaları, günümüz Türkiye’sindeki “öğrenci” ve “eğitim” kavramları ile karşılaştırmaları lazım. Matematik Köyünü kuran, yaşatan o parlak, aydınlık zihnin gençlik yıllarına, mektupları aracılığı ile şahit olmak da bir başka keyif oldu.
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