Writer (b. 1938, İskenderun / Hatay).
He attended the Kabataş High School (1955) and graduated from Ankara
University, Faculty of Political Sciences. He worked as an assistant specialist
at the State Planning Organization (1960) and then went to Yale University in
the United States for his graduate studies. On his return, he served as the
Branch Director at the State Planning Organization (1963-65) and as a lecturer
at the Middle East Technical University and Gazi University and as an advisor at
Ankara Municipality.
He was dismissed
from his office at the Middle East Technical University after the military coup
on 12 March 1971 and again from Gazi University after the coup on 12 September
1980. Küçük, who also worked for the review Yankı
and the newspaper Cumhuriyet for
a while, was sentenced to eight years in prison because of his book Bir Yeni Cumhuriyet İçin (For A New
Republic). He was arrested once every few years. He attracted attention with
the issues he put forward to the public. More recently his articles have been
published in the reviews and newspapers such as 2000'e Doğru, Aydınlık and
Özgür Gündem.
WORKS:
Endüstrileşme Sürecinin Temel Sorunları - Sovyet Deneyimi
- 1924-40 (Basic Problems of the Process of Industrialization- The Soviet
Experience-1924-40, 1975), Bir Yeni
Cumhuriyet İçin (For A New Republic)
Türkiye Üzerine Tezler (Theses on Turkey, 3 volumes, 1973-86), Planlama, Kalkınma ve Türkiye (Planning,
Development and Turkey, 1978), Seçme
Teknik Çalışmalar (Selected Technical Works, 1981), Nereye Gidiyoruz (Where Do We Go?, 1983), Aydın Üzerine Tezler (Theses on the Intellectual, 4 volumes,
1984-87), Bilim ve Edebiyat (Science
and Literature, 1985), Küfür Romanları
(Bad Language Novels, 1986), Sovyetler
Birliği'nde Sosyalizmin Kuruluşu (Establishment of Socialism in the Soviet
Union), Estetik Hesaplaşma (Aesthetic
Question, 1987), Bir Soran Olursa (If
Anyone Asks about me…, 1987), Fatih
Sultan Mehmet (Fatih Sultan Mehmet, 1987), İtirafçıların İtirafları (Confessions of a Confessor, those
regretful in the Communist Party of Turkey, 1988), Şebeke (Network, 2002).
