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The Republic of Turkey is a result of the conditions of the last century of the Ottoman Empire and especially the one-decade war process. Those born in the last years of the nineteenth century have been witnesses and some of them heroes of this history. Rifat Rami (Arinci) is a figure from this generation. Due to the First World War, his education was left unfinished, he lived a life of captivity, and after the Armistice, he served the National Struggle in his hometown Çorum/İskilip. Immediately after the Battle of Sakarya, he was a teacher. After the proclamation of the Republic, he carried out activities under the roof of institutions such as the Turkish Hearth and Community Houses in order to raise new generations and create a citizen identity, not only in the school environment. He wrote articles and poems about education in the magazine Kurtuluş Yolu (Way of Liberation), which he had a great contribution to publish. He struggled against ignorance and obstinacy, defended unity in teaching, and drew attention to the importance of the school and library. With his activities in the community center, he contributed to the history, language and literature of the region. In the early Republican years, as a member of the community an intellectual and a teacher who realized and tried to fulfill the duty imposed on him. The documents, writings and photographs created by him and preserved by his family also made an original contribution to the emergence of this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rifat Rami is a person who was born in 1898 in İskilip district of Çorum and witnessed the years of the Ottoman Empire withdrew from the stage of history and Republic of Turkey emerged. He was recruited in World War I as reserve officer alternate and fought in Iraq front. He was taken as a captive by the English and spent a few years of his life in Bellary Prison Camp in India. He participated National Struggle when he was liberated from captivity and returned from abroad and he was rewarded with war of independence medal for his contributions. He served as teacher in Çorum and as civil servant later in other public institutions to his country. He died in 1972 in Ankara. It is seen that Rifat Rami was interested in poetry at young ages. His poems in period of war and captivity has been taking place in his poetry book published in 1934 named Ülküç . Some of Turkish prisoner who lived in varied prison camp kept a diary, published a newspapers with duplication printing, and wrote letters, also some of them issued memories of slavery later. Due to shortage of poems written in period of slavery appreciate of the poems belong to Rifat Rami furher increased. These poems are more valuable for the specifies like being written in life of captivity and in terms of time, space and content rather than its literal value. In addition to Ülküç where war and captivity poems take place, Rifat Rami has poems and research works named Avize, Ya Demokrasi Ya Ölüm, Kıbrıs Destanı, Çorum ve Havalisi Şairleri . He also ran a periodical named Kurtuluş Yolu with his friends. He took place in struggling staff of young Republic of Turkey to make public conscious and guide them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]