Writer (b. 20 November 1944,
Gürpınar village / Of / Trabzon). He attended Mapsino (Gürpınar) Primary
School, Of Elementary School, Trabzon Primary Teacher Training School for Men,
Ankara Advanced Teacher Training School (1965) and graduated from Ankara
University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and Astronomy (1965)
and from Ankara University, Faculty of Law (1971). He worked in Trabzon
(1965-68), Sivas (1968-69) and Maden (1971) as a teacher of mathematics and
astronomy. He also worked as a lawyer in Trabzon (1972) and as the Trabzon
parliamentary deputy for the Republican People’s Party in the Turkish Grand
National Assembly (1977-80). After 1997 he became the Chairman of United
Nations Turkish Association. He is fluent in English.
His
first article was published in the review Gençlik,
the journal of Turkey National Youth Organization. His other articles appeared
in the newspapers Ulus (1965-71), Demokrat İzmir (1969), Ege Ekspres (1969), Barış (1972), Yeni Ortam
(1972-75), Akşam (1972), Vatan (1971-74), Milliyet (1977-78), Cumhuriyet
(1975-) and in the reviews Toplum
(1972), Bilim ve Sanat (1984), Trabzon Barosu and Balıkesir Barosu. He is a former member of the Teachers Union of
Turkey, the All Teachers Unity and Solidarity Association and the Turkish
Language Association and is still a member of the Anatolian Club, the Turkish
Parliamentarians Union, the Language Society, the Turkish Authors Association,
the Writers Syndicate of Turkey and the Kemalist Thought Association.
WORKS:
ESSAY: Yağmalar
Ülkesi Türkiye (Turkey, the Land of Plundering, 1976), Ben Değişmedim (I Have not Changed, 1994), Tarih Mahkemesi (Court of History, 2005).
RESEARCH: İktidardan Yüce Divana (From Power to
the Council of State, 1980),
Parlamentonun Boyutları (Dimensions of Parliament, 1985), Onuncu Başbakan Hasan Saka (Hasan Saka,
the Tenth Prime Minister of Turkey, 1998), CHP'nin
Soyağacı (Family-tree of the Republican People’s Party, 1999).
GIFT
BOOK: Hasan Saka'ya Armağan (A
Present to Hasan Saka, 1998), İsmet İnönü'ye
Armağan (A Present to İsmet İnönü, 1999).
