Ustura Kemal / Ustura Kemal
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Autor:
Haldun Sevel
Country:
Turkey (TR)
Book Theme:
Graphic novels, Manga and more
Publisher:
Ekin Yayınevi
Publishing Year:
1972
Born in Üsküdar in 1948, Haldun Sevel was interested in comics and painting in his childhood. He showed some of the paintings he made to Süheyl Ünver and he turned to painting with the advice he received. He started working at the San Organization workshop of Mengü Ertel at the age of 16 for the first time during the summer holidays.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
Ustura Kemal is a patriotic, honest and rowdy man who lived in the last days of the Ottoman Empire. There is also a woman whom he loves; Gulnaz.Ustura Kemal arm wrestled with a man at the Hıdrellez Festival in 1913. People place bets. hours later, he beats the man.However, a man named Tito takes the coins and tries to escape then one day the soldiers go to arrest Ustura Kemal. He is told that there are official authorities behind the man whose face he has drawn and that the man’s blood does not clot. Ustura Kemal and his right hand go to prison. Years pass, and the year 1918 comes. Istanbul is under occupation. Her lover Gülnaz has married another man. One day, Ustura Kemal, who hears that the neighborhood coffee house will be turned into a police station by the Italian occupation forces, shouts in anger and decides to escape from the prison.As Ustura Kemal and his right arm run away quickly, the old Hekim Bey is out of breath. Ustura Kemal takes him on his back and they take shelter in a cemetery. However, Hekim Bey is dead. His daughter and son are also in trouble.Ustura Kemal and the Bear of the Mountains (his right arm) find the Üsküdar District Governor at Hekim Bey’s funeral and receive their exit permit. This man is patriotic like them. Then, Ustura Kemal learns about the torture places of the British forces. They plan and take action for recovery. Now Ustura Kemal has become an anti-occupation resister.
