Orhan Talat Salçıoğlu

Orhan Talat Salçıoğlu (born January 25, 1960 in Kilitbahir , Çanakkale , † March 13, 1993 ) was a Turkish poet . Salçıoğlu was nicknamed " Baudelaire of Çanakkale". He died of suicide on the day his first book of poetry, Hades , was published.

Life

Career

The Salçıoğlus family came from Lapseki . His father was a simple employee of the city ​​administration and a strict and orderly and reliable person, as is evident from a poem Salçıoğlu about him. The existence of an older brother and sister is assured. The relationship with the father was difficult. Mother and sister adored Salçıoğlu. Orhan Talat grew up in poor conditions, attended high school and at the age of 15 became the guitarist of several locally known bands such as "Metronom" and "Eceler", which played at weddings. During this time Salçıoğlu already had excessive experience with alcohol and harder drugs. He also met Perihan, the unhappy love of his life, who would later leave him to marry a colonel. During the military coup in 1980 Salçıoğlu was picked up and arrested with friends in the Çimenlik fortress . They were treated like animals and later let go. His home was searched many times during the state of emergency. Salçıoğlu studied English at Marmara University in Istanbul, left the university after completing his bachelor's degree and returned to his homeland. A trip took him to Germany. In Berlin he took LSD and dedicated a poem to this trip:

As a teenager in Berlin
The West is only one direction
Why did I not kill myself

Salçıoğlu locked himself up at home, drinking and allegedly learning Japanese and Greek. He was working on a dictionary of the local dialect. Like everything else in his life, it should remain unfinished. Salçıoğlu only got to the letter "Ç".

death

Due to the increasing alcohol abuse, Salçıoğlu was hospitalized several times, during which he wrote poems about the nurses. Perihan came back into his life and left him again in an argument. Salçıoğlu's friends were concerned about Salçıoğlu's physical and mental health. In an attempt to restore his courage to face life, they secretly had his poems published as a book and gave him the title Hades . The blurb reads:

In the winter of 1960 I knocked on the world door like Santa Claus. After finishing the gas-smelling Gazi Elementary School, I negotiated the mazes of Merkez Middle School with vicious snaking. I continued my way to school at the Şişli private high school. I got my high school diploma in the land of the martyrs, where the wind never dies. I graduated from Marmara University with an English degree. I drink.

On the day the book was published, March 13, 1993, Salçıoğlu took his own life with a knife while intoxicated. The Çanakkales newspapers reported that a friend had wanted to visit Salçıoğlu. Since nobody opened the door, he called the police out of concern. She had the door opened and found the poet dead.

In Kemalpaşa , the street “Şair Talat Salçıoğlu Sokak” was named after the poet.

literature

• Ümit Bayazoğlu: Uzun, İnce Yolcular. 42 portre . Istanbul 2014

Web links

• Life story, poems on futuristika.org (Turkish)