History to repeat itself on expulsions

The Ottoman administration exiled writer and poet Namık Kemal. The sultan who had sent him into exile remained "one of the other sultans." Namık Kemal, on the other hand, became the "poet of the country" and "the poet of freedom." 

Another poet, Mehmet Akif, after taking part in the Liberation War, did not feel safe after the war and because he opposed certain decisions, settled in Egypt. He is today in the place he deserves in our textbooks as the poet who wrote the National Anthem. 

The Democrat Party government in the 1950s stripped poet Nazım Hikmet of his Turkish citizenship. Those who made this decision are heavily criticized, but Nazım has become the poet of generations. 

During the military regime of May 27, 1960, the military rulers first fired Professor Ali Fuat Başgil from university. He then left the country because he did not feel safe. Those who forced him into exile are forgotten, but Professor Başgil is still remembered as the greatest teacher at Istanbul University.  

Intellectuals and artists such as Zülfü Livaneli, Cengiz Çandar, Melike Demirağ, Şanar Yurdatapan and Cem Karaca were forced to leave the country during the military regime periods of 1971 and 1980 or were stripped of their citizenship. The decision-makers are all forgotten. The others came back as the artists of the masses. 

Now, in this period when certain people are in exile, stripping them of their citizenship is in the making.  

If you ask what will happen, well, history will repeat itself. Whatever era it is, those who have been exiled and who had a chance to leave the country and who were stripped of their citizenship because of their views or opposition have the same fate in history. 

The decision makers and the...