Today is the death anniversary of THKP-C member Hatice Alankuş… The “Woman Who Died for Her Thoughts”, who was imprisoned by the 1971 junta and was not released despite getting sick inside, was on July 24, 1973, despite the possibility of treatment. He died in Haydarpaşa Military Hospital.
HE OPENED HIS HOUSE TO ARTISTS
Architect Hatice Alankuş, who met the revolutionaries during her school years, was influenced by Mahir Çayan’s ideas and became a THKP-C sympathizer. When Mahir Çayan escaped from prison, he was arrested and tried in the case of THKP-C, who opened his house to them. Hatice Alankuş was also the subject of songs.
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SONG WRITED FOR
The lyrics of the song ‘The Woman Who Died for Her Thoughts’, written by French musician Jacques Bertin after Hatice Alankuş, are as follows:
“The most striking thing was the beauty of those people in their pictures.
‘We have been chosen as the most suitable faces to be depicted in the mausoleums.
It was for this reason that they seemed to say, ‘We have been through those tortures.
Someone was talking: ‘I was happy, how girls loved me
All the loving children like their sisters
I was neither prepared for a fight nor for torture.
I was flying in blue skies in my white blouse
My life was a sweet smile in my parents’ bosom
and how the students fell in love with me
Yes, you seemed to be made to testify in the afterlife
So that visitors can stop in front of his painting and ask:
‘My God! Could this radiant face have suffered so much?’
The girl in the picture replied immediately:
‘I was happy and not prepared for all this
I was proud and all I did was love
I didn’t stop when I was told to stop one day
I’ve never been behind doing natural ones
I came to the appointment with a smile /
I came, one day I suffered and died, that’s it
The visitor asks, pausing before the portrait and his name
‘If it was my turn, would I have ever been so brave?
Since you were buried in the painful heart of your books once/
Now it carries you, your visitor, with all its worries, to eternity
WHO IS HATİCE ALANKUŞ?
He was born in 1946 in Istanbul. Interior architect. He participated in political life in the second half of the 1960s; He was in the THKP-C movement. He was detained on 14 February 1972 by the 12 March junta. Tortured and arrested on 15 March. He was held in Bayrampaşa prison. He died on July 24, 1973, in Haydarpaşa Military Hospital, where he was not taken on time, from intestinal knots.
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