Journey of a leftist Turk reporter: from Mar 12 to Mar 21

He was arrested in 1971 and taken to "Ziverbey Mansion", a notorious place for the interrogation methods of torture. He sent a coded message in his written statement taken during the interrogation. The second letter of each second word from the end of the sentence read as "I am being tortured" from up to down. After he was released he wrote a book called the "Ziverbey Mansion" about the tortures he had been through.

He was claimed of being the ideologue of "Redapple Coalition" which is said to be bringing the nationalism and left ideology under the same umbrella.

"Kemalists, Nationalists, National Viewers (or Radical Islamists), the secularists of both right and left wing are coming together in the opposition. This interesting development, which is supported by the complaints of the public, is being monitored by the forces who are sensitive to the security of Turkish Republic", Selcuk wrote in his column in February 28, 2005.  Â