Journalist and
history researcher (b. 11 September 1929, Kadınhan / Konya - d. 17 April 2020, Istanbul). His full name is
Orhan Eşref Koloğlu. He is a graduate of Galatasaray High School (1947),
İstanbul University, Institute of Journalism (1965). He did his doctorate at
Strasbourg University. He became assistant professor at Tripoli (Libya) Al
Fateh University. He worked as a reporter, head of the editorial department and
writer at the journals Son Saat, Yeni
İstanbul, Yeni Sabah, Akşam, Milliyet, Barış, Aydınlık from 1947. He was
the Culture and Press Attaché in Rome, Karachi, Paris, London and Beirut
(1964-71); head of the editorial department in Germany for the journal Milliyet and reporter for the journal Hürriyet (1972-74); General Director of
the Press (1974-75, 1978-79) and foreign affairs advisor to Republican People’s
Party (1975-77). He worked at Hacettepe,
Anadolu, Marmara, Galatasaray, İstanbul and Libya El Fateh Universities from
1978. He is a member of the İstanbul Journalists Association, the Progressive
Journalists Association and a founder member of the Foundation of History.
He received the Journalists Union of
İstanbul Silver Pen Award (1962), the İstanbul Journalists Association Research
Award (1986), the Yunus Nadi Research Award (1990), the Sedat Simavi Social
Sciences Award (1995) and the Afet İnan Award for his studies in the field of
history. More than one hundred of his declarations and papers in Turkish,
English, French and Arabic have been published in international publications.
He has written forty two books on historical and social issues.
WORKS:
RESEARCH- PAPERS: Fikret Mualla (Fikret Mualla, 1968), Tarihte Aşk (Love in History, 1969), Le Turc Dans La Presse Française 1470-1815 (The
Turk in the French Press 1470-1815, Beirut, 1971), Müthiş Türkler (Great Turks, 1972), Türk Subaylarının Libya Savaşı Anıları (Memories of Turkish
Officers in the Libyan War, written in Arabic, Tripoli 1979), İslamda Başlık (Headwear in Islam,
1979), Mazlum Milletler Devrimleri ve
Türk Devrimi (Oppressed Nations’ Revolutions and Turkish Revolutions,
1980), Mustafa Kemal'in Yanında İki
Libyalı Lider (Two Libyan Leaders on Mustafa Kemal’s Side, 1981), Calendar of Incidents (1981), Muslim Public Opinion During the Libyan War (1911-1912),
Osmanlı Meclislerinde Libya (Libya in
the Ottoman Parliaments, 2 volumes,), Miyop
Çörçil Olayı (Event of Short-sighted Churchill, 1986), La Turquie en Transition (Turkey in Transition, contribution, Paris
1986), Basımevi ve Basının Gecikmesi ve
Sonuçları (Publishing House and Press Delay and Its Results, 1986), Abdülhamit Gerçeği (Reality of
Abdulhamit, 1987), Türk'ü Dünyaya
Saydıran Adam (The Man Who Made Turks Respectable in the World, 1988), 1911-12'de Karikatür Savaşı (Cartoon War
in 1911-12, 1989), İlk Gazete ve İlk
Polemik (The First Journal and the First Polemic, 1989), Abdülhamit ve Masonlar (Abdülhamit and
the Freemasons, 1991), İttihat*çılar ve
Masonlar (Committee for Union and Progress and the Freemasons, 1991), Türkiye'de Basın (The Press in Turkey,
1992), İslam'da Değişim (Change in
the Islamic Faith, 1993), Gazi'nin
Çağında İslam Dünyası (The Islamic World in the Period of Gazi Mustafa
Kemal, 1994), 1919-1938 Türk
Çağdaşlaşması (Turkish Modernization between 1919-1938; 1995), Kim Bu Mustafa Kemal, 1918: Aydınların Bunalım
Yılı (Who Is Mustafa Kemal?, 1918: Crisis Year of the Intellectuals, 2000),
Ecevit ile CHP / Bir Aşk ve Nefret Öyküsü (Ecevit and the Republican Peoples Party / A
Story of Love and Hatred, 2000), Kim Bu
Ecevit? (Who Is Ecevit? 2001), M.
Fahri Tuncel - Çeşme- i Beyt-i Dilden Damlalar (Drops from the Fountain of
the Heart, preparation for printing, 2003).
HISTORICAL NOVEL: Cem Sultan, Loti'nin Kadınları (Sultan Cem, Loti’s Women, 1999).
REFERENCE: İhsan Işık / Yazarlar Sözlüğü (1990, 1998) - Türkiye Yazarlar Ansiklopedisi (2001, 2004) – Encyclopedia of Turkish Authors (2005) - Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, gen. 2. bas. 2007) - Ünlü Fikir ve Kültür Adamları (Türkiye Ünlüleri Ansiklopedisi, C. 3, 2013) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Famous People (2013), Vitrindekiler (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 16.7.1998), Erol Üyepazarcı / Sahafın Kitabı (Virgül, Şubat 1999), Günümüz Türkiyesinde Kim Kimdir (2000), Zeki Arıkan / Reklamcılığın İlk Yüzyılı (Virgül, Mayıs 2000), Orhan Koloğlu ile Kitapları: Edebiyat ve Tarih Üzerine - “Uzun Süreli Bir Bakış Gerekiyor Bize” (söyleşi, Cumhuriyet Kitap, 22.03.2001), Abdülhamit ve Masonlar (Virgül, Kasım 2001), Kim Bu Ecevit? (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 14.12.2001), Orhan Koloğlu Arap Kaymakam, Mehmet Aldan / İz Bırakan Mülki İdare Amirleri: 2, Sadullah Koloğlu (trakyagezi.com, aksam.com.tr, 27.02.2011), Genel Müdürlerimiz (byegm.gov.tr, 9.11.2015), Gazeteci-tarihçi yazar Orhan Koloğlu vefat etti (aa.com.tr, 17.04.2020), Gazeteci-tarihçi yazar Orhan Koloğlu vefat etti (posta.com.tr, 17.04.2020), Tarihçi Orhan Koloğlu vefat etti (gazeteduvar.com.tr, 17.04.2020), Tarihçi Orhan Koloğlu vefat etti (sariyertimes.com, 17.04.2020).