The sociologist was born in 1939 in the Isklip district of Çorum to a conservative and nationalist Turkish family and spent 17 years in prison.
In 1962, he graduated from the College of Political Science of #Ankara# University. When he was training for the post of governor in Elaziz, he mixed with the Kurds for the first time.
While working as an assistant professor of sociology at Ataturk University's College of Arts and Literature in Erzurum, a professor at the same college named Orhan Türkdoğan reported him and accused him of “Marxist propaganda and separatism”. Beşikçi was therefore was judged in emergency courts during the 1971 coup.
He lost contact with the university and began his days in prison. He was released from prison in 1974. He was then judged again for his views on the Kurdish issue.
Before the 1980 coup, he was arrested in 1979 and released in 1987, but the lawsuits against him continued and he remained in custody until the year 1999.
Beşikçi has written 36 books on the development of the East and the Kurdish issue, but 32 of them have been banned.[1]