Tayfun Gönül

Tayfun Gönül (1958, İzmit - 30 July 2012, Istanbul) was a Turkish writer, doctor, the first conscientious objector[1] in Turkey and a self-described anarchist.[2][3]

Tayfun Gönül
Born1958
İzmit
Died30th of July 2012, Aged 54
Istanbul
Occupation(s)Journalist, Activist
Known forConscientious objection, activism pertaining to anarchism

Biography

Gönül's childhood years were spent in Izmir and Istanbul. After graduating from Ankara Science High School,[4] he studied medicine at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine and graduated as a qualified doctor. His father was also a doctor like himself. Since his high school years, he wrote a plethora of articles for Halkın Sesi (Aydınlık). In the 1980s, he started writing for the magazines Sokak and Yeni Olgu, and in 1986 he began writing for Kara, the first anarchist magazine in Turkey. Moving from Istanbul to Izmir, Gönül founded the Izmir War Resisters Association.

In 1989, he declared his conscientious objection to the compulsory military service that existed in the Turkish state at the time, and took the Turkish state to court over this matter. During these years, Tuğrul Eryılmaz, with whom Gönül had worked at Sokak magazine, started the campaign "No to compulsory military service".[5] Following the launch of the campaign, Gönül, together with Eryılmaz and Metin Münir, the editor-in-chief of Güneş newspaper, were put on trial on charges of "alienating the public from military service".[1] In 1993, he worked extensively to unite all anarchist circles and publications under the Apolitika project. Finally, in 1999, he started publishing the weekly newspaper Efendisizler. Meanwhile, Gönül returned to Antalya and his illness began to take its toll.[2]

On 15 February 2012, Gönül suffered a heart infarction. He survived, and was later discharged after two months in hospital. In 2012, he participated in the World Conscientious Objectors Day which is held every year on 15 May, and made a short speech. However, later that year, on Monday the 30th of July 2012 at around 23.30, Gönül suffered another heart attack while at home and later died in hospital. His body was taken from Zincirlikuyu cemetery morgue and buried in Kilyos cemetery by his friends on 02 of August 2012.[6][2][3][7]

Publications
  • Düzenden Kaosa Zuhur (Gediz Akdeniz ile Söyleşi), 2008[2]
  • Anarşizm Nedir?, 2010 (Broşür dizisi)[2]
  • Akiba, 2010[8]

Bibliography
  1. OTYZBAYEVA, Zhazira (2013-10-22). "Türkolog Prof.Dr. BLAGOVA Galina Fyodorovna'yı (31 Ağustos 1927-26 Temmuz 2013) Kaybettik". Modern Türklük Araştırmaları Dergisi /Journal of Modern Turkish Studies. 10 (3): 234–239. doi:10.1501/mtad.10.2013.3.37. ISSN 1304-8015.
  2. Serpil, SÜRMELİ (2015). "Siyaset ve savaş İngilizlerin Çanakkale çıkmazı (3 Kasım 1914-18 Mart 1915)". Atatürk Yolu Dergisi (57): 131–146. doi:10.1501/tite_0000000435. ISSN 1303-5290.
  3. "Düzenden Kaosa Zuhur". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24.
  4. "Anarşizm Nedir?". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  5. "Akiba". antoloji.com. Archived from the original on 2015-06-10.
  6. Karaman, Ramazan (2012-01-01). "IX. İslam Tarihi Anabilim Dalları Koordinasyon Toplantısı ve "İslam - Türk Tarihinde Kıbrıs Sempozyumu"". Journal of Divinity Faculty, Hitit University. 11 (21): 251. doi:10.14395/jdiv90. ISSN 1303-7757.
  7. Hakan, UZUN (2013). "Türk Heyeti'nin Lozan'a gidişi ve Lozan Konferans'ı öncesinde Avrupa'daki faaliyetleri (5 Kasım 1922–20 Kasım 1922)". Atatürk Yolu Dergisi. 13 (53): 329–350. doi:10.1501/tite_0000000398. ISSN 1303-5290.
  8. Hoşaf, Nilay; Arslan, Erhan (2019-06-30). "Kadın Milletvekili Adaylarının Basında Temsili (7 Haziran 2015 ve 1 Kasım 2015 Genel Seçimleri)". Akdeniz Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi: 444–470. doi:10.31123/akil.533894. ISSN 1304-3846. S2CID 199265139.
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