the only journalist to witness the execution of Deniz Gezmiş...

the only journalist to witness the execution of Deniz Gezmiş in Turkey wrote a book about the event 36-years later saying that "the execution lasted 52 minutes." Burhan Dodanlı, who was a correspondent for the AA news agency at the time, wrote: "On the scaffold, Gezmiş said he would kick the chair out from under himself. After a minute, the executioner pulled the chair out from under him. Deniz was tall; his neck did not break at first, it took 52 minutes for him to die."