Ufkun Arkasını Görebilmek - Cumhuriyet Söyleşileri

Cumhuriyet Söyleşileri

by Attilâ İlhan

Atilla İlhan, Ufkun Arkasını Görebilmek’te, Gazi Mustafa Kemal’in Cumhuriyeti’nin 40’lı yıllardan başlayarak bugüne kadar ki yolculuğunu değerlendiriyor. Bu yolculukta üzerinde ısrarla durduğu nokta ise “çağdaş uygarlık düzeyi” ile “batılılaşma”nın aynı kavramlar olduğu “yanlış saptaması”nın kökenleri. Atilla İlhan, Gazi Mustafa Kemal’in temellerini attığı inkilapçı yapının ardından, “Milli Şef” dönemiyle birlikte devlete bürokratik mekanizmaların hakim olduğu saptamasını yapıyor ve Türkiye’nin bugününü bu değerlendirmeden yola çıkarak değerlendiriyor.

270 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1999

About the author

Attilâ İlhan was born in Menemen in İzmir Province, Turkey on 15 June 1925. He received most of his primary education in İzmir. However, because of his father's job, he completed his junior high school education in different cities. Aged 16 and enrolled in İzmir Atatürk High School, he got into trouble for sending a poem by Nazım Hikmet, a famous dissident communist Turkish poet, to a girl he was in love with. He was arrested and taken into custody for three weeks. He was also dismissed from school and jailed for two months. After his imprisonment, İlhan was forbidden from attending any schools in Turkey, thus interrupting his education.

Following a favorable court decision in 1941, he received permission to continue his education again and enrolled in Istanbul Işık High School. During the last year of his high school education, his uncle sent one of his poems to CHP Poetry Competition without telling Attilâ. The poem, Cebbaroğlu Mehemmed, won the second prize among many poems written by famous poets. He graduated from high school in 1942 and enrolled in Istanbul University's law school. However, he left midway through his legal education to pursue his own endeavors and published his first poetry book, Duvar (The Wall).