Cevat Şakir

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Bust of Cevat Şakir in Bodrum

Cevat Şakir , also Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı , stage name "Fisherman of Halikarnassos" (Turkish: Halikarnas Balıkçısı ) (born April 17, 1886 in Crete ; † October 13, 1973 in İzmir ), was a Turkish dissident , writer and journalist .

Life

As the child of the Turkish diplomat Mehmet Cevat Paşa and his wife İsmet Hanım, Cevat Şakir spent his childhood in Athens . He attended Robert College in Istanbul until 1904 and then studied history at Oxford University . After returning to Turkey in 1910, he worked for magazines such as Resimli Ay and İnci , but moved to Italy in 1913 on the occasion of his marriage to an Italian woman. After his father was killed by a shot from Cevat Şakir's pistol under unexplained circumstances in 1914, he was arrested but released early because of tuberculosis .

1925 Cevat Sakir was because of a newspaper article in which he is critical of the execution of Army deserters of the War of Liberation had said, from the Istanbul Military Tribunal into exile to Bodrum banished, which was then almost forgotten ancient Halicarnassus . He fell in love with the landscape and its beauty and the originality of the village of fishermen and sponge divers. The Turkish authorities then moved him inland, from where Cevat Şakir immediately returned to Bodrum after having served the rest of his arrest. From then on he wrote under the pseudonym Halikarnas Balıkçısı (German: Fischer von Halikarnassos ). Many of his works deal with the culture of Anatolia and life on the Aegean Sea . From 1957 he went on cultural trips with friends from the intellectual scene in the coastal region around Bodrum. They were on the simple boats of the sponge divers, the gulets ; the trips are known as "blue trips". The travelers not only discovered idyllic bays and villages, but also cultural treasures. Cevat Şakir campaigned in vain to bring the parts of the Halicarnassus mausoleum that had been brought to the British Museum back to their original location.

Cevat Şakir paved the way for the sleepy fishing village of Bodrum to grow into a cosmopolitan, sophisticated travel destination. The "Blue Journeys" take place today on comfortable yachts that can moor in Bodrum's exclusive marina .

Cevat Şakir became internationally known through the movie Das Blaue Exil (1993), a film adaptation of his memoir "Mavi Sürgün" , in which Hanna Schygulla played a leading role.

Cevat Şakir had a son (Suat Kabağaçlı) and a daughter (İsmet Kabaağaçlı Noonan). He died of bone cancer in İzmir in 1973 and was buried in Bodrum according to his wishes.

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Short stories

Ege Kıyılarından (1939), Merhaba Akdeniz (1947), Ege'nin Dibi (1952), Yaşasın Deniz (1954), Gülen Ada (1957), Ege'den (1972), Gençlik Denizlerinde (1973), Parmak Damgası (1986) , Dalgıçlar (1991).

Novellas

Aganta Burina Burinata (1945), Ötelerin Çocuğu (1956), Uluç Reis (1962), Turgut Reis (1966), Deniz Gurbetçileri (1969).

Essays

Anadolu Efsaneleri (1954), Anadolu Tanrıları (1955), Mavi Sürgün (Memoirs, 1961), Anadolu'nun Sesi (1971), Hey Koca Yurt (1972), Merhaba Anadolu (1980), Düşün Yazıları (1981), Alta Akdenciz (1982), Sonsuzluk Sessiz Büyür (1983), Çiçeklerin Düğünü (1991), Arşipel (1993).

Cartoons

  • Political cartoon by Şakir on the Battle of Sakarya , Guleryüz (issue 23, October 6, 1921)

  • Political cartoon by Şakir on the Battle of Sakarya, Güleryüz (issue 34, October 22, 1921)

  • Political cartoon by Şakir about Ali Kemal Bey , Güleryüz (issue 35, December 29, 1921).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baedeker Allianz travel guide: Kos . 3. Edition. Verlag Karl Baedeker, 2007.
  2. ↑ The Blue Exile in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Şakir, Cevat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Şakir Kabaağaçli, Cevat (real name); Fisherman of Halicarnassus (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish dissident, writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Crete
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1973
Place of death İzmir