Yaşar Kemal

Yaşar (Pronounced Yashar) Kemal, the famous “Turkish-Kurdish” author, had an Armenian father who had fled the Van massacres during the Genocide of Armenians and settled in the Cukurova region at the northeast corner of the Mediterranean. In 1951 Kemal managed to stop the destruction of Akhtamar Church by the Turkish army. In 2013 the Republic of Armenia bestowed on him the Krikor Naregatsi medal for standing up to the Turkish army. His most famous work is “Memed, My Hawk”. Kemal was born in 1923. His real name is Kemal Sadik Gokceli.

Yaşar (Pronounced Yashar) Kemal, the famous “Turkish-Kurdish” author, had an Armenian father who had fled the Van massacres during the Genocide of Armenians and settled in the Cukurova region at the northeast corner of the Mediterranean. In 1951 Kemal managed to stop the destruction of Akhtamar Church by the Turkish army. In 2013 the Republic of Armenia bestowed on him the Krikor Naregatsi medal for standing up to the Turkish army. His most famous work is “Memed, My Hawk”. Kemal was born in 1923. His real name is Kemal Sadik Gokceli.