News Center- Sevim Belli, a socialist author and translator, died in Istanbul on Monday, at the age of 100.

Sevim Belli (Tarı) was born in Istanbul in 1925. She studied at the Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine and then specialized in Paris. She met Nazım Hikmet during the 3rd World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) held in Berlin August 1951. She acted as a courier to transport secret information between the executives of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) in Türkiye and in European countries. When she returned to Türkiye in 1951, she was arrested along with Şefik Hüsnü Değmer, Zeki Baştımar, Reşat Fuat Baraner, Mehmet Bozışık, Halil Yalçınkaya and Mihri Belli, members of the Central Committee of the TKP. In 1957, she married Mihri Belli.

In 1964, she went to Algeria with her children to work as a doctor because she could not practice her profession in Türkiye. In 1966, she returned to Türkiye; however, she was arrested again during the 1971 Turkish military memorandum issued on March 12, 1971. She spent three years in prison. Following the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, she went abroad again. She wrote her memories in a book titled, “Boşuna Mı Çiğnedik”.