One of the most famous Turkish writer is dead. Yasar Kemal died Saturday at the age of 91 in a hospital in Istanbul, reported the Anatolia news agency. He had been treated since 14 January due to complications from pneumonia and because of cardiac arrhythmias. The doctor told Turkish media, Kemal’s health had deteriorated significantly in the past week. He died of multiple organ failure.
1955 was Kemal became famous for his novel “Memed My Hawk”. The work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Born in 1923 in southern Turkey Kurd has been awarded numerous literary prizes and human rights. In 1997 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.The Nobel Prize in Literature was also nominated for the Kemal, was denied him. In 2006, instead Orhan Pamuk took the coveted award in Turkey.
Kemal became involved in leftist political spectrum and was asked several times for his commitment to the Kurds in court. After the military coup in 1971, he was arrested. For several years, lived in exile in Sweden Kemal.
Despite his sharp criticism of the Kurdish policy of Turkey 2008 he was honored with the highest award Turkish culture, the cultural award by the President. The ceremony was attended by President Abdullah Gül and the then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan part.
The Turkish Culture Minister Omer Celik said on Saturday shocked by the death of Kemal. “The sadness in our hearts is great,” he wrote in the short message service Twitter. “Turkey and the entire human race have lost a great soul.”
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