Journalist
and writer (b. 1949, İstanbul). Because of the profession of her father, who
retired as a senior colonel, she spent her childhood in İstanbul, Diyarbakır,
Erzurum and İzmit Derince. After she finished her primary education in İstanbul,
she graduated from Bursa High School for Girls and Fatih High School for Girls.
She went to the United States on a scholarship from the American Field Service for one
year. She returned to Turkey and later left the Middle East Technical
University, Faculty of Administrative Sciences before the coup d’etat on 12
March and joined the socialist movement group "Aydınlık"
(Brilliance). She was imprisoned for two and a half years under article 141 of
the constitution in 1972.
Göktürk,
who was released in 1974, began to work as a journalist on the newspaper Aydınlık
in 1978. Her first articles were published in the newspapers Halkın Sesi and Aydınlık and the review Aktüel.
Later on, she worked as a director for the newspapers Güneş and Günaydın
and the reviews Nokta and Aktüel. Since 1994, she had worked as a
journalist on the newspapers Sabah and Yeni Yüzyıl. She
now defends liberal views instead of socialist thought that she once idealized
in her youth.
WORKS:
Yüksek Sesle Düşünmenin Tam Sırasıdır (It is
the Time to Think Aloud, 1997), Mürteci
Yazılar (Reactionary Writing, 1998), Özel
Hayatlar (Private Lives, 2002), Gidemeyenlerin
Ülkesi (The Land of Those Who cannot Leave, 2002).
