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Turhan Selcuk's path should be followed, I think, in order to
Open up new prospects for our literature which seems to have
been encountering some rough going in recent years. The same
applies to the present problems in the field of caricature in
Turkey And this path is, as I said, a short cut to man himself.
Perhaps in speaking of Turhan Selcuk I have been too abstract.
This a rust most definitely does not look on nature and men as
from high up in the skies, but is plunged deep in the flow of
daily events. He suffers, rejoices, is stirred to anger, struck
with childlike wonder, derisive, disgusted, maddened, feeling
not only for himself but for all of us, the characteristic of
great artists. He speaks 9ut against oppression and wrong, evil
and corruption among men. His battle is your battle. The world
his art depicts for us is a generous world. He has not
imprisoned his heart in one feeling, one idea, one kind of
drawing. His whole being is wide open to all the world, to its
beauty and poetry, its magic charm. To understand Turhan Selcuk
is to understand the modern world. He stands out in the midst of
evil and darkness and points to the light.
Soz Cizginin, 1979
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