62 years ago today, on April 3, 1963 (March 10, 1963 in the lunar calendar), the poet Hekmet passed away. Nazim Hikmet (1902.1.20- 1963.4.3), on January 20, 1902, Hikmet was born in the city of Thessaloniki (now Greece). His father was the director of the General Information Administration and the consul in Hamburg, and was a distinguished family in Turkey. He entered the Naval School in Istanbul in his youth, and his father wanted him to honor his ancestors as a naval officer. He disappointed his father. He did not enter the navy, but went to the mainland to work as a teacher. In 1919, he was expelled for participating in revolutionary activities and began to write poetry. While he was a teacher in 1921, he met progressives and went to study at Oriental University in Moscow, the Soviet Union in the same year. Shortly after the victory of the October Revolution, the Soviet people set off a climax of socialist revolution and construction in their struggle against reactionary forces at home and abroad. Lenin's flag enabled the young Hikmet to see the dawn of complete liberation of mankind. He became a staunch socialist determined to fight to the end for the liberation of the Turkish people. He returned to China in 1924, worked in a newspaper and other units, engaged in literary and artistic creation, and joined the Communist Party. His poems were like a powerful shock wave that shook the poetry world and shocked the authorities. While the poetry world was cheering for the rise of another dazzling star, the authorities included him on the list of dangerous people. From the 1930s to the 1940s, going to prison became his routine, adding up to 17 years. He walked out of prison for the last time in 1950. Although he has regained his freedom, he has no right to freely publish his works. The authorities used various methods to persecute him in an attempt to drive him to a dead end. As a last resort, he left his motherland and smuggled into the Soviet Union. In 1951, he was expelled from Turkish citizenship. He actively participated in social activities in the Soviet Union, continued to engage in literary creation, and was awarded the "Lenin International Peace Prize". On April 3, 1963, this poet, full of worries for his motherland, died in Moscow. After the poet's death, his reputation in the country increased day by day. In 1966, his long poem "Portraits of My Compatriots" was published in Turkey. This poem describes a panoramic view of Turkish social and political life from the beginning of this century to the Second World War, and creates many images of farmers, workers, landlords, capitalists, politicians and literati. It is a rare artistic treasure in the history of Turkish literature. Now, in the hearts of the Turkish people, Hekmet has become the most outstanding national hero.