He was deported as an 8-year-old child, in a foreign land he went from a mechanical technician to an oncologist surgeon, a professor whose name became widely known. He successfully made surgeries using his own techniques until the age of 79. And he wrote a book. A descendant of two famous Crimean families: Karabash and Balich, Shevki Bekirov told his tragic story of deportation from Crimea.
