# Remembering Osman Yüksel Serdengeçti and Criticizing Kemalism

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119894854344085740
- Source account: [@poledits](https://x.com/poledits)
- Source language: Turkish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:58
- Published: 2026-11-10
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/PKcYEr42tCn5/en/remembering-osman-y%C3%BCksel-serdenge%C3%A7ti-and-criticizing-kemalism
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/PKcYEr42tCn5/tr/osman-y%C3%BCksel-serdenge%C3%A7ti-yi-anma-ve-kemalizm-ele%C5%9Ftirisi.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/PKcYEr42tCn5/en/remembering-osman-y%C3%BCksel-serdenge%C3%A7ti-and-criticizing-kemalism) For those with Islamic consciousness, November 10, is the death anniversary of one of the toughest, most honorable men I knew, the late Osman Yüksel Serdengeçti.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/PKcYEr42tCn5/en/remembering-osman-y%C3%BCksel-serdenge%C3%A7ti-and-criticizing-kemalism?t=12) On November 10, I remember him, and no one else.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/PKcYEr42tCn5/en/remembering-osman-y%C3%BCksel-serdenge%C3%A7ti-and-criticizing-kemalism?t=15) I don't even want to remember him. I want to erase him from my memory.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/PKcYEr42tCn5/en/remembering-osman-y%C3%BCksel-serdenge%C3%A7ti-and-criticizing-kemalism?t=19) I wish the state, too, would make an effort to erase him from the national memory.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/PKcYEr42tCn5/en/remembering-osman-y%C3%BCksel-serdenge%C3%A7ti-and-criticizing-kemalism?t=25) Kemalism is a shackle on the feet of this ummah.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/PKcYEr42tCn5/en/remembering-osman-y%C3%BCksel-serdenge%C3%A7ti-and-criticizing-kemalism?t=29) This ummah won't move forward until it falls.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/PKcYEr42tCn5/en/remembering-osman-y%C3%BCksel-serdenge%C3%A7ti-and-criticizing-kemalism?t=33) In time, you will understand this much better and you will see it come to pass, by God's grace and favor.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/PKcYEr42tCn5/en/remembering-osman-y%C3%BCksel-serdenge%C3%A7ti-and-criticizing-kemalism?t=41) When I was young, like you, he was someone I followed and admired, and later established a close bond with.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/PKcYEr42tCn5/en/remembering-osman-y%C3%BCksel-serdenge%C3%A7ti-and-criticizing-kemalism?t=49) So, for the soul of the late Osman Yüksel Serdengeçti, I invite you to recite Surah Al-Fatiha.