WHO IS FAIK BUCAK?
Faik Bucak is born in 1919 in the Hadro village of Siverek district of Urfa. When Bucak is 4 years old, he is told that his country, Kurdistan, is ripped into 4 parts: Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
He sees that the Kurdish people in all nations are being deprived of their democratic and cultural rights. The son of Hasan Bucak, Faik Bucak grows up with his mother tongue, unaware of its consequences. He attends primary and secondary school in Siverek and high school in Diyarbakır. It is here that he learns that he is a member of historic peoples who are denied, whose land is divided, and that is left behind.
Bucak starts his university life in 1939 at the Law Faculty of Istanbul University. Mustafa Remzi Bucak, the son of his uncle, who is known as a matriotic student, is also studying there. In 1941, Musa Anter begins his studies in Istanbul too. Kurdish students organize and establish the Dicle Talebe Dormitory. Mustafa Remzi Bucak is appointed as the head of the dormitory. The Dicle Talebe Dormitory, which was established in cooperation with each other, ensures that the poor youth of the period can stay in Istanbul.
Faik Bucak has been in contact with Kurdish intellectuals living in South West Kurdistan since 1946. From 1946 to 1949, a Kurdish matriot named ‘Mustafa from Palu’ served as a courier for Bucak. Mustafa goes to Syria at that time and delivers news to Faik Bucak. He brings Hawar and Ronahi magazines to him, which enables him to communicate with intellectuals like Celalet Bedîrxan and Cegerxwîn.
Faik then travels to Antakya in 1947 as a judge trainee; where he remains as a judicial intern for two years. Towards the end of 1949, with determination, Bucak goes to Gürün district of Sivas. At that time, Faik Bucak makes decisions in favour of the Kurds in territorial cases. Faik Bucak, who resigns from the judgeship in 1956, settles in Urfa and works as a lawyer there.
ARRESTED ON THE GROUNDS OF KURDISHNESS
On May 27, 1960, following a military coup in Turkey, the military government of national rights advocates are aware of it or are in a position to support the arrest of 495 people. After that, 55 people are sent into exile. Among them is Faik Bucak. Bucak was later imprisoned in Balıkesir prison for 3 months on the grounds of “Kurdishness” in 1961.
Faik Bucak poured the conscious Kurdish awakening that he started in 1940 into an organization after these events. In 1961, together with Sait Elçi and some Kurdish intellectuals in Silopi, they form a secret organization called the responsibility of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Although Mesulluk was in contact with various Kurdish organizations, it is mainly under the influence of the I-KDP.
In July 1965, Fehmi Bilal, Sait Elci and Omar Turhal, which have taken place in the Sheikh Said rebellion, establish the TKDP (Turkey Kurdistan Democratic Party). Faik Bucak is appointed as the leader of the party. TKDP advocates autonomy within the borders of Turkey.
Bucak, accelerates the work of the organization. The organization begins to grow and develop its relations with Kurdish movements and intellectuals in other parts of Kurdistan. Faik Bucak and his friends make a one-week excursion on the Cizre-Silopi line in May 1966. MIT follows this trip step by step. The state has decided: the leader of the I-KDP will be brought down.
There is a feud in the Bucak tribe which is a confederation of families. Some people reported Faik Bucak and his relatives to the MGK as for provoking “Kurdishness” in the coup of 1960. According to the information given by his son Sertaç Bucak: “On July 4, 1966 at 10 o’clock, a special team assassinated Faik Bucak in Karaköprü area of Urfa and injured Faik Bucak. Faik was specifically targetted as there were many other relatives around him but only he was shot. Faik Bucak is martyred on July 5, 1966.”
GAZIN JI XWEDE
My calls to God
Ne nane, ne dane, ne şîv û taşté Not bread, Not food, Not dinner or breakfast
Ho rebîyo! Ev qas derd û bela jı ku té Hey God, Where does all this worry and trouble come from
Dewlemendî lı me gırt édın em bûne xezan You took our riches, now we are poor
Hış seré me da nema, belé, mane géj û nezan There is no mind in our heads, we are left mindless
Çavan jî bıgre bıla rohnayî bıbe zulmet Take your eyes away, let the light be unlit
Çı bıkım pışka derd û ğama para me ket What should I do, our share is grief and worries
Ma nıfır lıme bûye kes pîgar nabe mera The curses have come upon us, no one is of help
Heval sılav nadın pırs nakın bav û bıra Friends do not greet us, they don’t ask about the father or the brother
Ré lı ber me wunda bû nızanım kuda bıçım We have lost our path, I do not know where to go
Rebî! Tîna bıecîm sekınîne lı ber Çem Lord, they are hungry, they are thirsty in front of the river.
FAİK BUCAK
