From the Hungarian Wikipedia page [1]
Ekrem Kemál ( Skopje , October 20, 1924 – Budapest , November 29, 1957) engineer, electrician, a prominent member of the insurgent group during the Széna Square battles during the 1956 revolution, who was sentenced to death for his participation in the battles and executed. Father of Hungarian politician György Ekrem Kemál.
Ekrem Kemál was born on October 20, 1924 in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now the capital of North Macedonia). His father, Ekrem Halil, was a large Turkish landowner, and his mother, Erzsébet Ecker, was a small landowner from Csongrád. After his father was murdered by Serbian separatists, his mother returned to Hungary with Ekrem Kemál. At first they lived in Budapest, but Ekrem finished his civil school in Eger at the Szent Antal boys' institute of the minorities . Then at the Puskás Tivadar Technikumobtained a technical qualification as an electrician-instrumentalist. In the 1950s, he worked as a foreman on the construction of the high-voltage network in Northern Hungary. In 1956, he was sentenced to 2 years and 8 months in prison for workplace sabotage, but due to the outbreak of the revolution, he did not start serving his sentence.
From the Bulgarian Wikipedia page [2]
In 1935, Kemal Ekrem moved from Yugoslavia to Hungary, where he was reunited with his mother. In 1939 he traveled to Italy, visited Rome and Palermo.
In Hungary, Kemal Ekrem learned the profession of a mechanic and worked at the factory of the Ganz company. In 1944, he was persecuted on an ethnic basis by the Arrow Cross Party and was evicted from Budapest. After the Hungarian Communist Party came to power, Kemal Ekrem worked as an electrician in Budapest. He did not apply for Hungarian citizenship in order not to serve in the army of the Hungarian People's Republic. He is considered politically unreliable and is under the surveillance of State Security. However, he applied for membership in the Hungarian Workers' Party (UPT) and was a member of it for a short time until an inspection was carried out, as a result of which Ekrem was expelled. Then in 1949 he was evicted from Budapest and temporarily interned. From 1952 he worked on the construction of a power plant, then in a mine near Pecs. He has a good professional reputation and receives a relatively high salary. However, in May 1956, Kemal Ekrem was charged with possession of stolen property. The court sentenced him to 2 years and 8 months in prison.
Data on Kemal Ekrem's participation in the anti-communist Hungarian uprising are contradictory. Most sources agree that Ekrem was imprisoned on October 23, 1956 and released the next day. But there is also an opinion that he initially went to the regional committee of the UPT to support the regime of Ernő Gerő - András Hegedüs. However, the apparatchiks do not accept the support of those "purged from the party" and then Ekrem joins the rebels.
According to other sources, as early as October 24, 1956, Kemal Ekrem joined the rebels in Sena Square. Together with József Dudás, János Szabó, Robert Ban, he became one of the leaders of the rebel defense in the II district of Budapest. He stands on extremely radical positions, in the spirit of those of Dudas.
On November 4, the defenses of the Seine and Moscow squares were breached by Soviet tanks. Kemal Ekrem tries to establish radio contact with Bela Kirali and coordinate the continuation of the armed struggle. He was seriously injured in a street shooting, spends a week practically unconscious, and then walks on crutches. He was in hiding for almost two months.
On December 28, 1956, Kemal Ekrem was arrested. Hungary's internal affairs authorities are facing a legal conflict: it turns out that Ekrem never received Hungarian citizenship. An inquiry was sent to Belgrade, from where they also reported that Ekrem was not a citizen of Yugoslavia.
The trial against Ekrem is purely formal: like Dudas and Szabo, he was previously sentenced to death as one of the most radical leaders of the uprising. Kemal Ekrem's death sentence was pronounced on July 29, 1957 and carried out exactly four months later.
After the fall of communism in Hungary, Kemal Ekrem was considered one of the heroes of the 1956 uprising. He is particularly popular among the Hungarian far-right. Kemal Ekrem's son, Györd Ekrem-Kemal, is a prominent figure in the Association of Uprising Veterans and one of the founders of the far-right Hungarian movement.