January 29, 2002
KurdishMedia.com (Translated) - By Robin Kurd
Source: Translated from: www.kurdistan.nu

London (KurdishMedia.com) 29 January 2002: Kemal Burkay, the president of
the Socialist Party of [North] Kurdistan (PSK) has published the first volume of
his memoirs on Roja Nu publishing.

It is mentioned in the introductoin that Burkay started writing his memoirs in
1989 and finished in 2000.

The first volume contains the years between Burkay’s
childhood and the summer of 1974. The first part of the book
where Burkay describes his childhood, the environment, the
nature, and the village with its different aspects.

With other words, this section describes a Kurdish village and
the Kurdish life during the 1940s.

This section is followed by the years of study at the Akcadag and Tigris village
institutes (a kind of teacher’s training school). In this section, Burkay portrays the

education and the life in the village institutes, an issue still discussed in Turkey.

Later follows, Burkay’s life as a teacher in the village of Korsot in Van district

and in Ankara, as a bookkeeper in a government office, the Faculty of Law in

Ankara, memories from the military service, as a head official of Osmaniye district,

marriage and working as a lawyer.

The emergence of discussions of socialism and the Kurdish Question, first literary
works, novels and poetry; Burkay’s orientation towards politics and the period
of Turkish Workers Party.

His political and professional life in Elazig and Dersim; the East Demonstrations,
congresses, elections, interesting cases, political events, arrests and short
portraits of people Burkay came across, worked with and spend time with in
prison.

The 12 March period, the exile; Damascus, Beirut, Sofia, Munich, Konstanz...

An autobiographic novel, an interesting story that is easy to understand and told
poetically. At the same time, the story of an era, the history of the Turkish and
Kurdish left and the Kurdish patriotic movement.

Burkay, for the remaining part, "in the coming section, the establishment of the
Socialist Party of Kurdistan and the political events that I was actively part of.
The history of the party with other words. I also tried to reflect important
political events of that era as a whole. I mention the Kurdish national movement
and important developments of Turkish left-wing politics, organisations, leaders
and to some extent international developments. This section, with its
documents, becomes two or three volumes, I currently prepare them for
publishing in appropriate time."

The first volume can be ordered from:
http://www.kurdistan.nu/psk/psk_bulten/burkay_anilar.htm

More information about the Socialist Party of Kurdistan (PSK) can be found at:
http://www.kurdistan.nu