Her name was Zeliha.
She was the daughter of a poor family with five children. Their lives were very difficult.
Hunger on the one hand, disease on the other. Diseases took away her brothers one by one. The family has only one child left.
They changed her name so that she may live.
Its new name was Yaşar Zeliha. She lost his mother at the age of 6. She was now under the auspices of a bedridden aunt and a drunken father. She threw herself into the streets. At a young age, she saw labor, exploitation, injustice. She decided to read.
Hearing this, her father kicked her out of the house. Neighbors claimed. She could only stay at the school for a year. Then she studied on his own without a teacher. She was working, earning, buying and reading. She remembered the Quran. She never took off her headscarf. The poetry was intrigued.
She used Ottoman well. With the Republic, it also adapted to the new alphabet. She wrote poems and books. Despite her lack of education, her writing attracted great attention. She was more effective than the highly educated writer. She always wrote. She wrote the people. Sh wrote the labor. She wrote about exploitation in dissident magazines. As she wrote, she got into trouble.
She was arrested several times in 1925-1927.
It was questioned in the same way as the famous socialists of the period such as Nazım Hikmet. She became a member of the Labor Association. She supported the strikes.
Where there is injustice, the pen was there. It never bent, never bent. That is why he took the surname "Bukulmez" in the surname law.
Zeliha Yaşar Turkey on May 1, she fought hard to be celebrated as Labor Day. Especially in the Republic period, she reacted very strongly to the ban on May 1. She rebelled against the change of May 1's name to "Spring and Flower Holiday". She wrote again, always wrote. She was the first poet to poetry about May 1 in Turkey. She has been married three times. She lost her first husband, divorced from the others. She was both socialist and headscarved. She did not compromise her principles. But it also came at a heavy price. She had a lot of financial difficulties in the last days of his life.
Her income was only 42.5 cent pension from her father. She died on November 5, 1971 in misery. The millions she fought for did not even hear her name.It was not specifically announced. Yaşar Zeliha Bükülmez had never lived.
Bio by Sedat Kaya
She was the daughter of a poor family with five children. Their lives were very difficult.
Hunger on the one hand, disease on the other. Diseases took away her brothers one by one. The family has only one child left.
They changed her name so that she may live.
Its new name was Yaşar Zeliha. She lost his mother at the age of 6. She was now under the auspices of a bedridden aunt and a drunken father. She threw herself into the streets. At a young age, she saw labor, exploitation, injustice. She decided to read.
Hearing this, her father kicked her out of the house. Neighbors claimed. She could only stay at the school for a year. Then she studied on his own without a teacher. She was working, earning, buying and reading. She remembered the Quran. She never took off her headscarf. The poetry was intrigued.
She used Ottoman well. With the Republic, it also adapted to the new alphabet. She wrote poems and books. Despite her lack of education, her writing attracted great attention. She was more effective than the highly educated writer. She always wrote. She wrote the people. Sh wrote the labor. She wrote about exploitation in dissident magazines. As she wrote, she got into trouble.
She was arrested several times in 1925-1927.
It was questioned in the same way as the famous socialists of the period such as Nazım Hikmet. She became a member of the Labor Association. She supported the strikes.
Where there is injustice, the pen was there. It never bent, never bent. That is why he took the surname "Bukulmez" in the surname law.
Zeliha Yaşar Turkey on May 1, she fought hard to be celebrated as Labor Day. Especially in the Republic period, she reacted very strongly to the ban on May 1. She rebelled against the change of May 1's name to "Spring and Flower Holiday". She wrote again, always wrote. She was the first poet to poetry about May 1 in Turkey. She has been married three times. She lost her first husband, divorced from the others. She was both socialist and headscarved. She did not compromise her principles. But it also came at a heavy price. She had a lot of financial difficulties in the last days of his life.
Her income was only 42.5 cent pension from her father. She died on November 5, 1971 in misery. The millions she fought for did not even hear her name.It was not specifically announced. Yaşar Zeliha Bükülmez had never lived.
Bio by Sedat Kaya
Her name was Zeliha.
She was the daughter of a poor family with five children. Their lives were very difficult.
Hunger on the one hand, disease on the other. Diseases took away her brothers one by one. The family has only one child left.
They changed her name so that she may live.
Its new name was Yaşar Zeliha. She lost his mother at the age of 6. She was now under the auspices of a bedridden aunt and a drunken father. She threw herself into the streets. At a young age, she saw labor, exploitation, injustice. She decided to read.
Hearing this, her father kicked her out of the house. Neighbors claimed. She could only stay at the school for a year. Then she studied on his own without a teacher. She was working, earning, buying and reading. She remembered the Quran. She never took off her headscarf. The poetry was intrigued.
She used Ottoman well. With the Republic, it also adapted to the new alphabet. She wrote poems and books. Despite her lack of education, her writing attracted great attention. She was more effective than the highly educated writer. She always wrote. She wrote the people. Sh wrote the labor. She wrote about exploitation in dissident magazines. As she wrote, she got into trouble.
She was arrested several times in 1925-1927.
It was questioned in the same way as the famous socialists of the period such as Nazım Hikmet. She became a member of the Labor Association. She supported the strikes.
Where there is injustice, the pen was there. It never bent, never bent. That is why he took the surname "Bukulmez" in the surname law.
Zeliha Yaşar Turkey on May 1, she fought hard to be celebrated as Labor Day. Especially in the Republic period, she reacted very strongly to the ban on May 1. She rebelled against the change of May 1's name to "Spring and Flower Holiday". She wrote again, always wrote. She was the first poet to poetry about May 1 in Turkey. She has been married three times. She lost her first husband, divorced from the others. She was both socialist and headscarved. She did not compromise her principles. But it also came at a heavy price. She had a lot of financial difficulties in the last days of his life.
Her income was only 42.5 cent pension from her father. She died on November 5, 1971 in misery. The millions she fought for did not even hear her name.It was not specifically announced. Yaşar Zeliha Bükülmez had never lived.
Bio by Sedat Kaya
She was the daughter of a poor family with five children. Their lives were very difficult.
Hunger on the one hand, disease on the other. Diseases took away her brothers one by one. The family has only one child left.
They changed her name so that she may live.
Its new name was Yaşar Zeliha. She lost his mother at the age of 6. She was now under the auspices of a bedridden aunt and a drunken father. She threw herself into the streets. At a young age, she saw labor, exploitation, injustice. She decided to read.
Hearing this, her father kicked her out of the house. Neighbors claimed. She could only stay at the school for a year. Then she studied on his own without a teacher. She was working, earning, buying and reading. She remembered the Quran. She never took off her headscarf. The poetry was intrigued.
She used Ottoman well. With the Republic, it also adapted to the new alphabet. She wrote poems and books. Despite her lack of education, her writing attracted great attention. She was more effective than the highly educated writer. She always wrote. She wrote the people. Sh wrote the labor. She wrote about exploitation in dissident magazines. As she wrote, she got into trouble.
She was arrested several times in 1925-1927.
It was questioned in the same way as the famous socialists of the period such as Nazım Hikmet. She became a member of the Labor Association. She supported the strikes.
Where there is injustice, the pen was there. It never bent, never bent. That is why he took the surname "Bukulmez" in the surname law.
Zeliha Yaşar Turkey on May 1, she fought hard to be celebrated as Labor Day. Especially in the Republic period, she reacted very strongly to the ban on May 1. She rebelled against the change of May 1's name to "Spring and Flower Holiday". She wrote again, always wrote. She was the first poet to poetry about May 1 in Turkey. She has been married three times. She lost her first husband, divorced from the others. She was both socialist and headscarved. She did not compromise her principles. But it also came at a heavy price. She had a lot of financial difficulties in the last days of his life.
Her income was only 42.5 cent pension from her father. She died on November 5, 1971 in misery. The millions she fought for did not even hear her name.It was not specifically announced. Yaşar Zeliha Bükülmez had never lived.
Bio by Sedat Kaya
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