To My Grandparents

Bu kitabı, 1915’te Sarıkamış’ta Rus ordusuna karşı savaşan Osmanlı ordusunda subay dedem Mehmet İnce, ve dedemin savaşta öldüğünü ya da esir düştüğünü bilemeden onu hayatı boyunca bekleyen anneannem Hanife İnce’ye ithaf ediyorum.

I dedicate this book to my grandfather Mehmet İnce, an officer in the Ottoman army who fought against the Russian army at Sarıkamış in 1915, and to my grandmother Hanife İnce, who waited for him all her life, never knowing whether he had been killed in the war or taken prisoner.

Rahmi Akçelik April 2026