Researcher-writer. (b. 1926, Denizli). He attended Denizli Gazi
Primary School and Adapazarı Sabihanım
Primary School, Adapazarı
Secondary School and graduated from Kuleli Military
High School, the Turkish
Military Academy
(1951), and the Cartography
Engineering College
(1954). He served as a Triangulation and Geodesy military officer between 1953
and 1961; as a Management Section Chief between 1961 and 1972 and as an
authorized person between 1972 and 1977. He had retired as a Cartography Engineering
Lieutenant Colonel in 1977 and then retired from İstanbul Anakent Municipality,
Cartography Directorate, in which he worked between 1981 and 1984. He is known
for the research that he has done since 1964.
WORKS:
İstanbul’un Tarihî Yerler Kılavuzu (Guide to the Historical Places of İstanbul, 1966),
İstanbul’da Gömülü Meşhur Adamlar (Famous Men Who Were Buried in
İstanbul, 1981), Atatürk ve Kurtuluş Savaşı (Atatürk and the
Independence War, 1981), Ansiklopedik İstanbul Rehberi (İstanbul
Encyclopedic Guide, 1981), Osmanlı Tarihi
Yazarları (Writers of Ottoman History, 1982), Türkiye’yi Kimler Yönetti (Those
Who Governed Turkey, 1984), Türkiye’nin Panoraması (Panorama of Turkey,
1984), Marmara Bölgesi Doğal ve Tarihî Yerler Sözlüğü (Dictionary of
Natural and Historical Places of the Marmara Region, 1988), Türk Savaş ve
Barışları (Turkish Wars and Peace, 1990), İzmir’in Tarihî Yerler
Kılavuzu (Guide to the Historical Places of İzmir, 1993), Türkiye’de
Gazeteler ve Dergiler Sözlüğü (Dictionary of Newspapers and Periodicals in
Turkey, 1994), Türkiye Tarihî Yerler Kılavuzu (Turkish Guide to
Historical Places, 1994), İstanbul Tarihi (The History of İstanbul,
1996), Topkapı Sarayı (Topkapı Palace, 1996), A Short
Story of Turkey and Atatürk (1996).
