Biography Considering the circumstances in the autumn of 1957 when Ahmet Kaya was born, it was indeed not so hard to foresee that he would spend most of his lifetime in the dark of the autumn. Neither his father who used to be a worker at a cloth factory had an ideal such as changing the world; nor did his city of birth, Malatya and the family’s 40- sqm. House has a window to comfortably see the beauties of life. Perhaps the land he was born as that was honoured by all the blessings the nature supplied; however in those years, there were no such beauties worth seeing in that district of the world. Turkey, made even poorer by the Second World War, would witness the first full-fledged military coup during the republican period , three years after the birth of little Ahmet and would watch her prime ministers, ministers on death chairs. The young republic of thirty four years of age was prone to substantial pain. The pain of the Anatolian land where there were so much bloodshed, of millions of people from dozens of races- for the sake of religion, for the sake of gold or even for the sake of a woman- would not be relieved, who knows for how many years more.
Ahmet was the fifth and the last child. His father was a Kurd who had immigrated from Adıyaman to Malatya to find a job and his mother was a Turk who had been striving to grow her children in chastity and respectably. They were, in a way, like a summary of Turkey in those years. Ahmet’s rebel against the authority was initiated when he got acquainted with the street at the age of four-five. He was a member of the quiet and peaceful family, extrovert and undisciplinable. Sometimes he used to sell his grandfather’s quinces to the grocery to go to cinema and sometimes he rode the idle donkey in the neighbourhood, put the sword in the evil acting as Dark Murat, a cartoon character from a comic strip published daily in the most popular newspaper at the time....
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Eger mirov şert û mercên payîza 1957'an ku Ahmet Kaya ji dayîk bû bide ber çavên xwe, texmîna ku wê ew temenê xwe hemûyî bi payîzan derbas bike, ne zehmet bû. Ne bavê wî ye ku di karxaneya qumêş de karkerî dikir, nêtekê wî yî ku dinyayê biguherîne hebû, ne jî li bajarê ku lê ji dayîk bûbû, li Meletiyê pencereyeke xaniyê wan î mîna kozikekê ku tê re xweşikiyên dinyayê bibînin, hebû. Axa ku li serê hatibû dinê, belkî jî bi her cûre nîmetên xwezayê hatibû xelatkirin, lê wan salan li wê herêma dinyayê tu xweşiyên ku bên dîtin, tune bûn. Tirkiyeya ku bi Şerê Cîhanê yê Duwem xizantir bûbû, piştî bûyîna Ahmet bi sê salan wê bibûya şahidê derba leşkerî ya mezin a pêşîn ji komarê û vir ve û li sêdaran wê serokwezîr û nûnerên xwe bidîta. Komara ciwan a 34 salî li hêviya janên xedar bû. Bi hezaran sal e li ser dîn, li ser zêr û ta bi li ser jinan xwîna bi milyonan ji her qewmekî ku li ser erda Anatoliyê hatiye rijandin û êş daye van erdan, lê dîsa jî wê ev êş kî dizane heta çend salên din berdewam bikira bi vê derbê.
Ahmet zarokê pêncem û dawî bû. Bavê wî yekî kurd bû ku ji Semsûrê bo kar bar kiribû Meletiyê, dayîka wî jî yeke tirk bû ku hewl dida zarokên xwe bi namûs û baş mezin bike. Yanî hinekî dişibiyan kurteya Tirkiyeya wan salan. Lihevnekirina Ahmet a bi otorîteyê re hîn gava 4-5 salî bû û kuçe nas kir, dest pê kir. Digel ku malbata wî bêdeng û di halê xwe de bû, ew yekî şerkirû çalak bû û nedihate disiplînekirin. Ji bo ku biçe sînemayê carna bîhokên bapîrê xwe difirotin fêkîfiroş, carna jî li kerê beredayî yê taxê siwar dibû û dibû Kara Muratê lehengê xêzeromana ku di rojnameya herî navdar a wê demê de dihat weşandin, yên nebaş dida ber şûran....
