Bekir Sıdkı Çobanzade (pronounced cho-ban-za-de) (May 15, 1893–October 13, 1937) was a Crimean Tatar poet and professor of Turkic languages who was one of the victims of the Great Purge. May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... Events January 1 - Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar January 2 - Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers January 13 - The UK has its first meeting. ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Crimean Tatars (Qırımtatar, Pl. ... The Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ... The Great Purge is the name given to campaigns of repression in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s which included a purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...

In the midst of a successful academic career, at the age of 44, Çobanzade was arrested by Soviet authorities for alleged subversive activities against the state and was sentenced to death. His writings have outlived him; his poetry, in particular, continues to enjoy popularity among Crimean Tatars. Soviet redirects here. ...

Çobanzade was born in a family of humble origins in the village near Qarasubazar (Belogorsk) in Crimea. His father was a shepherd (çoban), and his last name means 'son of shepherd.' As a young boy, he helped his father herd the sheep, and these early experiences in the countryside left a lasting impression on the sensitive boy. Many of his poems are replete with descriptions of Crimean pastoral scenes. He received his early education in Crimea and Istanbul. In 1916, he went to Budapest to enroll at the University of Peter Pazmany and received his Ph.D. in 1919. After he returned to Crimea, he taught Crimean Tatar language and literature at the Pedagogy Institute in Aqmescit (Simferopol) and later accepted the chair of Turkology at the Taurida University in 1922. Early in 1925, he moved to Azerbaijan to become professor of Turkology at the University of Baku. He had a remarkable facility with languages. In addition to Turkic languages, he knew Arabic, Persian, Hungarian, Armenian, Georgian, Russian, French, German and English. The Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukrainian transliteration: Avtonomna Respublika Krym, Ukrainian: Автономна Республіка Крим, Russian: Автономная Республика Крым, pronounced cry-MEE-ah in English) is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. ... This article needs cleanup. ... See Budapest (band) for the British melancholic post-grunge band. ... Simferopol (Ukrainian and Russian: Симферополь, Crimean Tatar language: Aqmescit) is a city in Ukraine, capital of Crimea. ... Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan) is a country in the Caucasus, in the crossroads of Europe and Southwest Asia, with an east coast on the Caspian Sea. ... The Turkic people are any of various peoples whose members speak languages in the Turkic family of languages. ... Arabic is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Hungarian language is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in Hungary and in adjacent areas of Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Slovenia (all territories lost after World War I). ... Armenian is an Indo-European language spoken in the Caucasus mountains (particularly in the Armenian Republic) and also used by the Armenian Diaspora. ... Georgian (also Kartvelian; Kartuli in Georgian) is the official language of Georgia, a republic in the Caucasus. ... Russian (русский язык  listen?) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

In January 1937, Çobanzade was placed on leave without pay by an order of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and subsequently arrested. During a 20-minute trial, he was found guilty and condemned to death. He was executed on 13 October 1937. Twenty years after his his death, in response to an appeal from Çobanzade's wife, a military court of the USSR reversed the decision against him. The court declared that the charges against Çobanzade were baseless. Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

For more information about Çobanzade and samples of his poetry, see the Web site of the International Committee for Crimea. (http://www.iccrimea.org/literature/cobanzade.html)

See also

• Crimean Tatars
• Crimean Tatar language
• List of Crimean Tatars

The Crimean Tatars (Qırımtatar, Pl. ... The Crimean Tatar language or Crimean-Turkish (in its own script: Qırımtatar tili, Qırım Tatar dili resp. ...

Web links

• International Committee for Crimea (http://www.iccrimea.org)