I Will Always Stay Young

Thank you for the compliment that I will be an insufferable man in my old age. But I guess this guess won't come true. Because who said I would grow old? I will always stay young.

In the book, Sabahattin Ali 's family, Nazım Hikmet, Esat Adil Müstecaplıoğlu, Mehmet Ali Aybar, Mehmet Ali Cimcoz, Aziz Nesin, Melahat Togar, Ayşe Sıtkı İlhan, NihalAtsız, Cemal Kutay are included in the letters he wrote to his family, friends and business partners. There are letters and official correspondence written during the establishment of Markopaşa and Yeni Dünya, sent by his friends and students, especially Samim Kocagöz.

It should be particularly noted that these letters are texts that shed light on the formation of Sabahattin Ali's literary identity, and that the letters in which he explains what he read, wrote and will write can also be read as the author's notes. The letters brought together in I Will Always Stay Young not only testify to the life of Sabahattin Ali, but also life in Ankara in the first decade of the Republic, World War II. It also includes testimonies about many events such as the environment created by World War II and the arrests of left-wing people in Turkey, which gradually turned into a witch hunt. ...