Writer (b. 1906, Genez
District / Nevşehir – d. 16 March 1966, Istanbul). He became a hafız when he was a child
and received an intensive religious education. He attended secondary school in
Avanos. He worked as a teacher in Kayseri for three years after having graduated
from Izmir Teachers School (1927), afterwards he was dismissed for political
reasons (1930). After having worked as an examiner at the Turkish Language
Society, he went to Germany to study political science. He started to work as a
teacher at the State Conservatoire in 1937 and he was dismissed after seven
years (1944). He worked as a translator in his later years in Samsun and
İstanbul.
His first article (What Have
I Seen in My Village) was published in the review Resimli Ay. He was tried under article 142 of the Turkish Criminal
Code for his articles that were published in the reviews Resimli
Ay, Yeni Edebiyat (1942)
and Eylem, but was acquitted. His articles were also published in the
reviews Yağmur ve Toprak, Fikirler, Forum
under the pen names Edip Ekinci, Çoruhlu İbo etc. and in reviews and
newspapers such as Yeni Ufuklar, Yeni
Tanin and Ataç from
WORKS (Thought-Research):
Türk
İnkılabı ya da Şark ve Garp (Turkish
Revolution or Orient and Occident, 1940), Asya’nın
Avrupa’ya Öğrettiği (The Thing That Asia Teaches Europe, 1967), Tarih Taraması-Yüzyıllar Boyu İleri Geri
Kavgası (History Scan – Reaction Progress Struggle Through the Centuries,
in 2 volumes, collection, 1967), Kemalist
Devrim İdeolojisi (Kemalist Revolution Ideology, 1970), Kemalizm ve Türkiye (Kemalism and Turkey, 2004).
His translations were also published.