{"id":391310,"date":"2019-01-02T07:17:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-memory-of-halil-celik-1961-2018\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T07:17:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:17:35","slug":"in-memory-of-halil-celik-1961-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-memory-of-halil-celik-1961-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"In memory of Halil Celik (1961\u20132018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>In memory of Halil Celik (1961\u20132018)<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    the International Committee of the Fourth International<br \/>\n    <br \/>2 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p><em>Halil Celik, the founder and leader of the<\/em> Sosyalist E\u015fitlik <em>group, which supports the International Committee of the Fourth International in Turkey, died on December 31, 2018 after a serious illness at the age of 57. The following message was sent by the ICFI to the funeral of the<\/em> <em>unrelenting<\/em> <em>revolutionary and fighter for Trotskyism, which took place in Istanbul on Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/391a82d8-0b6a-43a9-986e-97ca9cafcb3L\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/391a82d8-0b6a-43a9-986e-97ca9cafcb3L\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Halil Celik (1961-2018)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>To the family of Halil Celik and his comrades in <em>Sosyalist E\u015fitlik<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>With profound respect, and a sense of deep loss, I extend to you the condolences of the International Committee of the Fourth International on the death of Comrade Halil Celik.<\/p>\n<p>Halil was, personally and politically, an extraordinary person. In late 1977, at the age of 16, he engaged in socialist activity and remained a revolutionary fighter to the end of his life. The political course he pursued required political vision, personal courage and inexhaustible energy.<\/p>\n<p>Rapidly breaking with the Stalinist milieu, where he began his political activities, Halil developed an intense interest in Trotskyism. In the early 1980s, while still a young man in his twenties, he studied Trotsky\u2019s <em>Struggle against Fascism in Germany<\/em>. \u201cI started to re-read Marx, Engels and Lenin, and recognized that Stalin was the enemy of Marxism,\u201d he later wrote.<\/p>\n<p>But in a country, where Trotsky\u2019s writings were difficult to find, and the political left was dominated by myriad nationalist and petty-bourgeois tendencies, the path to genuine Marxist internationalism turned out to be a long and arduous one. But Halil was a genuine fighter, determined to establish a revolutionary movement of the working class. He could not be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/02\/trib-j02.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 In memory of Halil Celik (1961\u20132018) By the International Committee of the Fourth International 2 January 2019 Halil Celik, the founder and leader of the Sosyalist E\u015fitlik group, which supports the International Committee of the Fourth International in Turkey, died on December 31, 2018 after a serious illness at the age of 57. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}