TRIALS

  • 1925, The Ankara State Independence Court Case
  • 1927-1928, The Istanbul Criminal Court Caseı
  • 1928, The Rize Criminal Court Case
  • 1928, The Ankara Criminal Court Case
  • 1931, The Case at the Istanbul Second Criminal Court of First Instance
  • 1933, The Istanbul Criminal Court Case
  • 1933, The Case at the Istanbul Third Criminal Court of First Instance
  • 1933-1934, The Bursa Criminal Court Case
  • 1936-1937, The Istanbul Criminal Court Case
  • 1938, The Case at the Military Court of the Military College Headquarters
  • 1938, The Case at the Military Court of the Naval Headquarters

    1925, The Ankara State Independence Court Case

    The law of the establishment of public order, which was accepted by the parliament on 4 May 1925, vested the government with further authority and power. State Independence Courts were established, temporarily but with extraordinary authority, depending on this law.
    Newspapers such as "Tevhid-i Efkar," "Son Telgraf," "İstiklal," and "Orak-Çekiç," and periodicals such as "Aydınlık" and "Sebilülreşat" which were published in Istanbul, and the "Yoldaş" newspaper published in Bursa were censored and shut down and the responsible people from these periodicals were arrested by decision of the Council of Ministers.
    The Ankara State Independence Court was established and put to work.

    And then, during the investigation of a bill which was distributed on 1 May 1925, 38 people were arrested as being members of the illegal Turkish Communist Party and were brought to Ankara to be tried in the Independence Court. Those in Europe or those who escaped to Europe would be judged in absentia.
    Thereupon, Nâzım Hikmet came secretly from Izmir to Istanbul to his mother's house in Cevizli, Kadıköy, in the middle of June. The next morning, he left the house dressed as a sailor and with a passenger boat, reached the Black Sea Fisher men boat near Mühürdar which was arranged for by the TCP.
    He was in Moscow again at the end of June in 1925. He could stay fewer than seven months in his beloved country where he had come at the end of December 1924.
    At the end of the trial in the Ankara Independence Court, he was among those who incurred the heaviest sentence. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison as Dr. Şefik Hüsnü (Değmer) and Hasan Âli (Ediz). Şevket Süreyya (Aydemir) and Dr. Hikmet (Kıvılcımlı) were sentenced to 10 years, and Sadrettin Celal (Antel) to 7 years.