Journalist and writer (b. 1921, Bornova
/ İzmir - d. 1989). She attended primary and secondary school at the Private
French High School for Girls in İzmir (Notre Dame de Sion) and high school in
Poland. She was still in Poland during the first years of the World War II. Her
mother was a Polish woman and her father was Turkish. 23 people from her family
died during the war and Arzık returned to Turkey. She completed her graduate
studies at Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography. In
one year she passed the exams of the whole four-year course and then graduated.
She was the sister of the Ambassador
Taha Carım, who was killed by Armenians. Her husband, Şefik Arzık, the general
director of the Anatoian Agency, was flying to the United Kingdom together with
Adnan Menderes, the prime minister of the time, to deal with the problem of
Cyprus in 1959 and died when the a plane crashed. She worked at various private and public
institutions of press and broadcasting, including the Directorate General of
Press and Information and participated in the establishment of the review Yön and was always a writer of debate
for many reviews and newspapers. Nimet Arzık published 41 books.
MAIN WORKS:
RESEARCH-STUDY: Ak Altının Ağası (Father of White Gold), Yunus Emre (Yunus Emre), Menderesi İpe Götürenler (Those who
Executed Menderes), Bitmeyen Kavga
(Unfinished War), İsmet İnönü (İsmet
İnönü), Eskişiler Zinciri (Chain of
Oldies), Çetin Altan’dan Demirel’e
(From Çetin Altan to Demirel).
MEMOIR: Tek At Tek Mızrak (One Horse, One
Spear, 3 volumes).
