this speech, he was charged with the crime of using religion as a political tool. He was the only communist to be charged with this crime in Turkey. Writing on the 'Kurdish Question' After the Ararat Rebellion of 1930, the Turkish Communist Party (TKP) took the position that the Kurdish movement of the day was reactionary, a product of backward feudal social relations, and in service to British and French imperialism. In contrast to this, in the 8th Volume of his Yol series written during in his time in Elaziğ prison, Kıvılcımlı argued that the question around the rebellion was one of ‘a national question, a Kurdish national question’ and that the Kurds consisted a nation due to territorial, linguistic, and cultural unity. He strongly criticised both the assimilation and ‘Turkifiication’ policies of the Turkish Republic, as well as the TKP for its failure to analyse the Kurdish Question and as a national question as an indispensable part of the democratic revolution in Turkey. This analysis was forward thinking for its time, prefiguring the analyses of later Turkish Communists and the Kurdish Movement. Kıvılcımlı's ideas failed to convince others in the TKP, and the party reverted to the analysis it held in 1925, that the issues in the Kurdish regions of Turkey arose from the continuation of feudalism in those areas. Apart from small sections, the Yol series, including much of Kıvılcımlı's work on the Kurdish question was not published until after his death. Publications Among his publications are Türkiye İşçi Sınıfının Sosyal Varlığı (The Social Existence of the Turkish Working Class), 1935; Tarih, Devrim, Sosyalizm (History, Revolution, Socialism), 1965; his masterpiece, and Yol: TKP'nin Eleştirel Tarihi (The Way: Critical History of the Communist Party of Turkey), consisting of a series of texts, written for the Central Committee of the TKP in 1932, published in 1979–1982. He contributed many articles in Aydınlık, Sosyalist, Türk Solu, and Ant between 1965 and 1971. After his death Fuat Fegan became custodian of Kıvılcımlı's papers and political inheritance. Other works Plans of the People's War Push of Revolution Democratic Zortlama Teke zortlatmasi What is Opportunism? Reproductive Ways of Turkish and Our Language Revolutionism Speech of Eyüp Turkey Village and Socialism What is Revolution? What is Production? Generally Social Classes and Parties No Anarchy! Great Reorganization! Classes and Politics in Turkey Marxist Thought Shortly Dialectical Materialism Finance-Capital and Turkey Situation Argumentation What is Dialectical Materialism?