Poet and literature researcher (b.
1955, Büyük Döllük village / Edirne). He attended primary and elementary school
in Edirne. He graduated from Edirne İmam Hatip High School (1974) and Erzurum
Atatürk University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Turkish Language and
Literature (1979). With his “Odes in Turkish Literature” thesis, he finished
his graduate studies (1987) and his doctorate studies with his research and
reviewed text in the work “Latifi/ Biography of Poets” (1992). He transferred
to university after he served as a teacher of Turkish Language and Literature
at Erzurum Tortum High School between the years 1980 and 1985. Since 1985, he
has been a university lecturer at Atatürk University, Kazım Karabekir Faculty
of Education, Turkish Education Department.
His first poem “Bizim Olmayan Eller”
(Hands not Belonging to Us) was published in the review Mina
(Erzurum, 1989, Volume: 5-6). His first article Edirne Şairleri 1. Sâgâri
(Edirne Poets 1st Perception of Divine Truth) was published in the
review Boğaziçi (İstanbul, 1986, vol.50). His other poems and articles
have been published in reviews such as: Kardelen, Dolunay, Millî Eğitim,
Ayane, Akademik Yorum, Türk Edebiyatı, Yenişehir Sanat, Türk Kültürü, G.Ü.
Fen-Edebiyat Fak. Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Şahdamar, Genç Erdem, Kitaplık,
Cogito, Türk Dünyası, Yedi İkli, Millî Kültür, Oluşum, Kalem ve Onur,
Palandöken, İslâmî Edebiyat, Kayıtlar, Kadın Aile, Mina, Merih and
Dergâh.
He has visited many countries for
travel, research and scientific activities such as Hungary, Macedonia, Kosovo,
Romania, Moldova, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Georgia. He has presented communiqués while
participating in symposiums related to his field. His work, Şehir ve İnsan (City
and Man) in which he wrote about his travels, won the award of the Writers
Union of Turkey Travel Section. He is a member of Writers Union of Turkey.
WORKS (Research):
Hammamizade İhsan Bey / Hayatı-Eserleri ve Divanı (Hammamizade
İhsan Bey/ His Life-Works and Divan*, with Mustafa İsen, 1989), Bosna, Ah
Bosna! (Bosnia Oh Bosnia, 1993), Değişen Dünya ve Öğretmen (The
Changing World and the Teacher, with Remzi Y. Kıncal, 1993), Tâlim ve
Terbiyede İnkılâp (Reform in Instruction and Education with İ. Hakkı
Baltacıoğlu, with Remzi Y. Kıncal, 1995), Başlangıcından Günümüze Edirne
Şairleri (Past and Present Edirne Poets, 1995), Mehmet Akif ve İstiklâl
Marşı (Mehmet Akif and the Turkish National Anthem, with Etem Çalık, 1995),
Edebiyat Dersleri I-II (Lectures
on Literature I-II, l996), Türk Edebiyatında Sâkînâmeler ve İşretnâme (Odes
and Revelries in Turkish Literature,1998), Latifî - Tezkiretü'ş Şuara ve Tabsıratü’n-Nuzama
(Latifî- Memoir and Explanation of Nuzama,
2000).