"The Turkish Dude"

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DUD SAKHAHAN (ARAB: داوود تركي; 8 OCTOBER 1927 - 8 MARCH 2009) WAS AN ARAB-ISRAELI POLITICAL POET AND ACTIVIST. HE WAS CONVICTED OF TREASON IN 1972 AFTER IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT HE WAS HEADED BY AN EXTENSIVE SPY NETWORK.

BIOGRAPHY
A TURK WAS BORN IN THE VILLAGE OF MAHER IN GALILEE IN 1927 FOR A CHRISTIAN FAMILY, AND AS A BABY PASSED WITH HIS FAMILY TO HAIFA, WHERE HE GREW UP. DAWD WORKED IN A BRITISH SOCIETY TO IMPORT AND STUDY ENGLISH AND FRENCH. DURING THE BRITISH MANDATE, TURKISH ADOPTED MARXIST AND PALESTINIAN POSITIONS, AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PALESTINE. DUD’S POSITIONS ON THE POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT HAVE SUPPORTED THE VISION OF ONE SECULAR AND DEMOCRATIC STATE IN ALL AREAS OF PALESTINE-A. THAT PROVIDES ABSOLUTE EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL ITS PEOPLE.

AFTER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN 1948, HE JOINED THE ISRAELI COMMUNIST PARTY, M.C., EVEN THOUGH HE OPPOSED ITS SUPPORT FOR DIVIDING THE COUNTRY INTO TWO STATES, AS WELL AS ITS BLIND LOYALTY TO THE SOVIET UNION. DUE TO HIS DISAPPOINTMENT FROM THE STATUS OF THE CCP, A TURKISH CAVALRY FROM THE PARTY, ALONG WITH A GROUP OF ARAB MEMBERS FROM THE HAIFA BRIGADE. IN 1964, HE JOINED WITH HIS COMRADES PORSCHE MAC FOR A COMPASS MOVEMENT.

FOLLOWING THE SUPPORT OF A COMPASS ON THE LIST OF URI ABNERY, THIS WORLD – A NEW FORCE, IN THE 1965 KNESSET ELECTIONS, DAWD DECIDED TO WITHDRAW FROM THE MOVEMENT, AS THE PLATFORM OF ABNERY’S LIST DID NOT FLAG SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUALITY.

AFTER THE SIX-DAY WAR, THE POSITIONS OF THE TURK WERE RAISED, AND HE WAS CONVINCED THAT VIOLENT ACTION WAS NEEDED TO PROMOTE THE GOALS HE BELIEVED. IN 1968 HE CONTACTED KHAWAJI, AN ACTIVIST OF THE AL-DARD ORGANIZATION EXILED TO CYPRUS. TURKEY ESTABLISHED AN EXTENSIVE NETWORK OF ACTIVISTS, WHOSE TARGETS ARE ESPIONAGE FOR ISRAEL’S ENEMIES, EGYPT AND SYRIA, AND CARRY OUT SABOTAGES ON AN ORDER DAY. THE NETWORK WAS IN CONTACT WITH THE FATAH ORGANIZATION AND EGYPTIAN AND SYRIAN INTELLIGENCE, AND WAS ORGANIZED IN 10 CELLS. AMONG ITS ACTIVISTS WERE BEDOUINS AND JEWISH ISRAELIS, SUPPORTERS OF THE EXTREME LEFT, INCLUDING A KIND OF AUDITOR. THE NETWORK TRANSFERRED INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION TO SYRIA, AND ITS PEOPLE LAUNCHED WEAPONS AND WEAPONS AND WEAPONS. TURKEY, ALONG WITH KINDNESS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE INTERNET, CONTINUED WITH OPEN POLITICAL ACTIVITY IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE RED FRONT, A MAOIST FACTION SPLIT IN 1971 FROM A STRUGGLE ORGANIZATION.

THE NETWORK HAS BEEN UNDER SURVEILLANCE SINCE 1970. IN 1972, TURKEY WAS ARRESTED ALONG WITH OVER 60 OTHER OPERATIVES AND SENTENCED TO 17 YEARS IN PRISON. HE WAS RELEASED IN 1985 AS PART OF THE JIBRIL DEAL. AFTER HIS RELEASE, A BOOK OF POEMS WRITTEN IN PRISON, THE WIND OF STRUGGLE, AND HIS MEMOIRS.

AFTER HIS RELEASE, TO HIS PATRIO, WHO RETURNED TO TURKEY TO RESIDE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF WADI NISSS IN HAIFA.