The National Question

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Since the beginning of the Foreign Languages Press, it has always been on our minds to reprint The National Question by Ibrahim Kaypakkaya. Written in 1972, this document continues to carry critical importance in current times to help understand and analyze national liberation movements.

But this task was easier said than done. There have been some translations of Kaypakkaya’s works, done in the 80s and 90s in Greek, German and even English in booklet form, but the first translations released by a publishing house were done in German only in 2011 (under the title In stürmischen Jahren, published by Zambon). This translation, however, contained only a handful of (mostly short) documents and did not include The National Question. In May 2013, this lack was corrected when comrades from the German organization Trotz Alledem released Unser Zorn wächst wie das unendliche Meer. Programmatische Schriften, a compilation of: Critique of the TIIKP’s program, On Kemalism, and The National Question in Turkey. We also know of at least one attempt, started in 2015, to make a compilation that would have also included the General Criticism of the Safak-Revisionism, which was advertised on the website kaypakkaya.de

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