Selim Çürükkaya

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Mehmet Selim Çürükkaya (born January 1, 1954 in what was then Tanzut, Bingöl , Turkey ) is a founding member and one of the best-known dissidents of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) and a Kurdish writer and PEN member. Çürükkaya lives in Germany and has published eight books, two of which have been translated into German.

Life

Selim Çürükkaya was born in 1954 in what was then Tanzut, a village in the Bingöl province in the Murat river valley between the cities of Palu and Genç . He attended elementary school in the village and learned Turkish there. After completing primary school, the village was renamed İkizgöl. After primary school, he moved to live with an uncle in Ceyhan ( Adana ) to attend middle school. He dropped out of school and worked in a coal shop and in cafes. In the early 1970s, he moved back to Bingöl to finish middle school. The village had meanwhile been destroyed by a landslide and was rebuilt in another place 17 km from Bingöl under the name Yeniköy .

In 1974 Çürükkaya joined the PKK. He was sentenced to long imprisonment in May 1980 by a military court in Diyarbakır . In his books he reports torture and resistance. According to his own statements, he took part in several hunger strikes. His wife Aysel was held in the same prison. He was released in April 1991. He left Turkey and attended the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy in the Lebanese Bekaa plain . He worked in various functions in the PKK, including as coordinator of the Serxwebûn . Çürükkaya fell out with Abdullah Öcalan because of his leadership style and the persecution and murder of internal party critics. Çürükkaya was arrested and sentenced to death at Öcalan's orders. He was able to escape from custody, came to Germany and had to hide from the organization. In Germany, Günter Wallraff stood up for him and visited Öcalan in exile in Syria to obtain a pardon for Çürükkaya.

Publications

  • 12 Eylül Karanlığında Diyarbakır Şafağı (2 cilt novel)
  • Demirci Kawa Ve Çağdaş Kawa (Tiyatro eseri)
  • Apo'nun Ayetleri (Anı ve eleştiri)
  • Güvercini De Vurdular (novel)
  • Beni Yıldızlara Gömün (Makaleler)
  • O Türküyü Söyle (Senaryo Öyküsü)
  • Sırlar Çözülürken (detective novel)
  • PKK The dictatorship of Abdullah Öcalan (diary, criticism)
  • Voices from exile
  • Susmak Ölmektir
  • Sing that song
  • Veywek (Belgesel Film)

Publications in Germany

  • A rain of pebbles will fall - texts from exile ; with 17 other authors, eds. Sigfrid Gauch, Claudia C. Krauße, Brandes & Apsel, 2009 ISBN 9783860993989
  • PKK: The dictatorship of Abdullah Öcalan, Frankfurt am Main 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mehmet Selim Çürükkaya. In: pen-deutschland.de. May 6, 2016, accessed May 15, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Peter Mühlbauer: Davutoglu offers PYD cooperation. In: heise.de . July 27, 2015, accessed May 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Helpless from terror . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1996 ( online ).
  4. ^ Günter Wallraff in conversation with the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. In: zeit.de . February 28, 1997, accessed May 15, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Çürükkaya, Selim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Çürükkaya, Mehmet Selim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish writer and PEN member
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Tanzut , Bingöl , Turkey