Researcher-writer. He was born in
1939 at Iskilip / Çorum. He completed his primary and secondary education in
Iskilip. He graduated from Çorum High School (1958) and Ankara University,
Faculty of Political Sciences (1962). His doctoral thesis is titled “Change in the East and Structural Problems –
Göçebe Alikan Tribe” (1969). While he was an Officer in Attendance at Hozat
in 1964 he became an assistant at Ataturk University, Faculty of Sciences and
Literature. His duty has ended as a result of the investigation on his book Order of Eastern Anatolia: Socio-Economic
Grounds in which it was claimed that he committed crime. He was arrested by
Diyarbakir Martial Court with the accusation of being a Kurdish separatist
(1971). He received imprisonment for eight years and four months because of his
book Order of Eastern Anatolia and
for eight months because of the lectures he taught. Although he was released
with the amnesty in 1974; he went back into prison in the following years.
Almost all of his books were pulled
off the shelves. He was sued many times because of these books and newspaper
articles, and he was sentenced to imprisonment or monetary fines. He spent his
imprisonment years in Ankara Merkez, Istanbul Toptaşı, Sakarya, Izmit and
Çanakkale prisons.
Because of a message he sent to the
Solidarity Night with Kurds organized in Germany in 1990; he was arrested again
by Ankara State Security Court and put in Ankara Merkez Prison. When the
articles 141, 142 and 163 of Turkish Penal Code were abolished, he was released
in April 1991. All the cases against him became void. After 1991 amnesty, he
was put on trial due to violation of articles 7 and 8 of Anti-Terror Law and he
was given new monetary fine and imprisonment.
WORKS:
Doğu
Mitinglerinin Analizi (1967), Doğu
Anadolu’nun Düzeni Sosyo-Ekonomik Temeller (1968, re-written as Bilim
Yöntemi, 1976; 2 volumes, 1992), Doğu’da Değişim ve Yapısal Sorunlar -
Göçebe Alikan Aşireti (Phd thesis, 1969), Bilim Yöntemi Türkiye’deki
Uygulama 1 Kürtlerin Mecburi İskânı (1977, recalled from the market), Bilim
Yöntemi Türkiye’ deki Uygulama 2 Türk tarih Tezi Güneş-Dil Teorisi ve Kürt
Sorunu (1978, recalled from the
market), Devletlerarası Sömürge Kürdistan (1990, recalled from the
market), Bilim-Resmi İdeoloji, Devlet-Demokrasi ve Kürt Sorunu (1990,
recalled from the market), Bir Aydın Bir Örgüt ve Kürt Sorunu (1990,
recalled from the market), Bilim Yöntemi Türkiye’deki Uygulama 3 Tunceli
Kanunu -1935 ve Dersim Jenosidi (1991, recalled from the market), Bilim
Yöntemi Türkiye’deki Uygulama 4 Orgeneral Muğlalı Olayı Otuzüç Kurşun (1991,
recalled from the market), Bilim Yöntemi Türkiye’deki Uygulama 5 Cumhuriyet
Halk Fırkası’nın Tüzüğü -1927 ve Kürt Sorunu (1991, recalled from the
market), Bilim Yöntemi Türkiye’deki Uygulama 6 Cumhuriyet Halk Fırkası’nın
Programı -1931 ve Kürt Sorunu (1991, recalled from the market), Ortadoğu’da
Devlet Terörü (1991, recalled from the market), Kürt Aydını Üzerine
Düşünceler (1991), UNESCO’ya Mektup (1991), Başkaldırının
Koşulları (1991), Bilim Yöntemi Türkiye’ deki Uygulama Kürdistan
Üzerinde Emperyalist Bölüşüm Mücadelesi 1915-1925 (vol.1, 1991, recalled
from the market), Bilimsel Yöntem Üniversite Özerkliği Açısından
İsmail Beşikçi Davası III Gerekçeli Karar (1992), Doğu Anadolu’da Göçebe
Kürt Aşiretleri (1992).
REFERENCE:
Yurt Ansiklopedisi (vol. III, 1982), Yurt-Kitap - Yayın / Haber Mektubu -
İsmail Beşikçi ile İlgili Olarak Elimize Ulaşan Mektubu Sunuyoruz, Gerçeğe
Adanan Ömür; İsmail Beşikçi (Kitap gazetesi, 1.6.1992), İhsan Işık (TEKAA,
2009).