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It has been 53 years since my friendship with Ali Sırtlı began.
As he recounts in his memoirs, we met in 1967, when I was the District Governor of Çayeli.
Çayeli was where he was born and raised, and it was my first district governorship.
Between 1965 and 1967, as the Chairman of the Youth Branch of the CKMP (Republican Peasant Nation Party), I came to Çayeli and gave a speech alongside our Chairman Alpaslan Türkeş.
The party, which was called MHP at the 1969 Adana Congress, did not have many supporters in those years.
Although higher education was rapidly spreading among the youth, there were very few people in high-ranking positions in the state.
Meeting and talking with Ali Sırtlı in Çayeli in such an environment was a completely different experience.
Moreover, Ali Sırtlı was not only a Turkist and a socialist member of the CKMP, but his charming words and conversations were easily heard from his face. He was a person who exuded sincerity Show More
