Documents that could shed light on Sabahattin Ali’s murder were revealed for the first time

2023-09-12 11:35:42

Ankara. Journalist-Author Gökçer Tahincioğlu’s novel “I Killed Sabahattin Ali” included previously unpublished documents that could shed light on the allegations regarding the murder.

Documents came to light revealing that Sabahattin Ali, who fell victim to one of the darkest murders in the history of the republic in 1948, was followed step by step before he was killed. The tracking documents in T24 Ankara Representative, Journalist-Author Gökçer Tahincioğlu’s novel titled “I Killed Sabahattin Ali”, published by İletişim Yayınları, published on September 8, show that Sabahattin Ali was followed long before his death, and that his every step was followed. He revealed that he was being watched and that everyone he talked to was known by name.

Ali Ertekin was receiving money from MIT

Writer Sabahattin Ali was killed while trying to escape across the border in 1948. The murder was revealed months later, according to official records. Ali Ertekin, who committed the murder, went to the police and said that he killed the famous writer. Ertekin said that he made an agreement with Sabahattin Ali to take him across the Bulgarian border in exchange for money, but that he committed the murder because his national feelings were aroused after he expressed his communist ideas.

After the trial, Ertekin was sentenced to only four years in prison and was released after serving two years in prison.

„Dead Communist“

It was understood that the “tagging documents” in the novel, in which fiction and reality are intertwined, were prepared after Sabahattin Ali’s death and sent to the competent authorities for information purposes. In the documents, in the section titled “Summary of information about him”, the term “Dead Communist” is included for Sabahattin Ali.

According to the information given in the introduction of the fictional novel, all of this information and documents were taken from state records and critical figures who had information about the murder.