Against Flowing Waters

"... I probably wouldn't have gone hungry, I would have found a job. But I couldn't afford it. Being fired from the teaching profession, which I loved very much... It wasn't possible, my honor was being hurt. None of those who punished me were as devoted to this profession as I was."

"... While the Chairman was making his speech, there were hums and noises coming from outside. Ismail Sefa Güner called Hodja Basaran and me and said, 'Prepare a declaration quickly addressing the people of Kayseri.' We retreated to a corner and started writing, but how late... Just a few more sentences. Without writing, stones began to rain down on the windows. I went and looked, most of them were children, young people... They were approaching the cinema with stones and sticks in their hands... Everyone was standing, everyone's eyes were wide. The poor man was trying to calm down the excitement, 'Sit down, friends, we are working for these children. "We will train them..." he says. But the doors are being forced from the outside. Then, ignited rags are thrown from the windows...

Talip Apaydin's teaching memories. The resistance of an education generation around the 34-year suffering and struggle-filled life of a teacher between 1946-80... A resistance that gives hope and courage to today's generations...

Contents;

• First Mission

• Around Tokat

• Mobile Head Teacher Job

• Forest Villages

• Villages in the 1950 Elections

• Change in My Private Life

• My House is Being Searched

• Instructors

• Village Schools

• Those Teachers

• Hodja from Bayburt

• Tokat Roads

• Almus Dam

• Village Schools in Summer

• Juniper Brown

• Almus Became a District

• A Breakthrough

• It Wasn't Easy

• Turhal Secondary School

• Locked in My House

• Summer Recreations

• General Environment

• Rural Depression

• We are leaving Turhal

• An Old Poet

• TÖS (Turkish Teachers Union)

• Amasya

• Two Unpleasant Events

• I am placed under the command of the Ministry

• Hearing in the Danistay

• We are coming to Ankara

• We were being burned in Kayseri

• We are meeting with Inönü

• The Council of State Decides in My Favor

• Boycott

• It Can't Be This Much

• My transplant is coming to Ankara

• Bahçelievler Secondary School

• The environment was corrupt

• Ministry Consultancy

• 100th Birthday of Atatürk

Illustrated by: Aydin Toprak Apaydin
Cover Design: Emel Atik

First Print Year: 2016

Number of Pages: 184

Language Turkish