Businessman
and journalist (B.: 1932, Kırkseki Village, Amasya, D.: April 9th,
1993, Istanbul). He was the husband of the journalist author and
parliamentarian Nazli Ilıcak. After his father Ali Bey had died when he was
six, her mother Hayriye Hanım brought him up. After he completed his primary
and secondary education in Amasya, he graduated from the Istanbul School of
Journalism. Although he received journalism education, he chose to begin a
commercial career. It was the first step to switch to journalism by releasing
the newspaper Türkiye
Birlik together with Kemal
Sülker. That was followed by becoming a partner to the newspaper Tercüman,
published under the management of the workers.
Combining
his business administration skills with journalism, Kemal Ilıcak managed to
make Tercüman a leading newspaper of Turkey with his direction and the
technical innovations that he implemented. Tercüman
broke grounds by presenting the first additional magazine, the first book, the
first gift, the first encyclopedia, 1001 Basic Works Publications, the first
apartment, the first automobile, and the first concerts in Turkey. In a
printing house opened in Germany, Kemal Ilıcak published foreign newspapers
apart from Tercüman.
