Writer
(b. 1926, İstanbul – d. 28 July 2003, İstanbul). He is the first person to
prepare an oratory book in Turkey called Güzel
ve Tesirli Konuşma (Speaking Well and Effectively). He held the first
oratory course for businessmen in Turkey. Later, he went to the United Kingdom
where he stayed a long time. He worked as a broadcaster on the BBC, and in New
York, where he lived for a while; he prepared an 800-page work consisting of
idioms, proverbs, verses and synonyms. He returned home in 1972 and started to
write for the newspaper Ortadoğu. He
gave oratory classes at the İstanbul branch of the Turkish Guild. He is famous
for his presentation and sensitivity in using Turkish properly and tried to
enforce this idea at seminars, courses, and conferences and on TV programs in
various Turkish cities. He received the Turkish Guilds Service Award. He was
buried in İstanbul after a funeral at Odabaşı Mosque.
He was an important traveler as well as
being a writer. He returned to Turkey after 1.5 years of traveling and wrote
his book Bir Türk Vatana Döndü (A
Turk Returned Home). He set off with 300 dollars in 1960 but the money finished
before he arrived in Lebanon. He sold his gold watch, one of his cameras and
his ink pen. Six of his articles appeared in one of the biggest newspapers in Japan.
He visited the United Kingdom, Belgium, Holland, Germany, France, Spain,
Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Syria,
Jordan, Iraq, South Arabia, Iran, Abadan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bombay, the
Taj Mahal, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
During his stay in the United Kingdom, he published the magazine Kıbrıs Türktür (Cyprus is Turkish). He
won the Writers Union of Turkey 1977 Translation award with his translation of İktidarın
Temelleri (The Foundations of Power).
MAIN WORKS (Essay - Research):
Bir
Türk Vatana Döndü (A Turk
Returned Home), Sovyet Emperyalizmi (The
Imperialism of The Soviet Union)
Balkanlar ve Türkiye (The Balkans and Turkey), Bütün Yönleri ile Komünizm (Communism in all Dimensions), Bütün Yönleri ile Hitabet (Oratory in
all Dimensions), Güzel ve Tesirli
Konuşmak (Speaking Well and Effectively),
Kütlelerin İsyanı (The Revolt of the Masses), Politikada Nükte (Wit in Politics), Medeniyetin Temelleri (The Foundations of Civilization), Yüz Büyük Roman (100 Great Novels), Deyimler Atasözleri Beyitler ve Anlamdaş
Kelimeler (Idioms Proverbs Verses and Synonyms), Dünden Bugüne Ezo (Ezo From Yesterday to Today), Bir Varmış Bir Yokmuş, (An Existence, a Non-Existence) Düşünen İnsana Hazine (Treasure for the
Thinking Person), The Wit and Wisdom of
Nasreddin Hoca, Turkish Delights a Treasury of Proverbs and Folk Sayings.
