İlhan Erdost [SEP] place of death
İlhan Erdost
İlhan Erdost (17 December 1944, Tokat - 7 November 1980, Ankara) was a Turkish publisher.
Erdost started working after elementary school, because of his family’s poverty and World War II. Thereafter, he settled in Ankara with his older brother Muzaffer İlhan Erdost. He started school again there. He adopted Kemalist thinking in his years at high school. After the 1960 Turkish coup d'état, when he was 16, his opinions turned towards the left. Erdost, after high school, entered Ankara
He was beaten to death by soldiers on 7 November 1980 in Mamak Prison.
Leman Sam’s song “Ağıt” was composed for İlhan Erdost. His older brother Muzaffer Erdost, after İlhan Erdost’s death, changed his name to Muzaffer İlhan Erdost.