Mehmet Saadettin Aygen

Journalist-writer (B. March 6, 1922, Ezine / Çanakkale – D. May 5, 1998, Istanbul). He completed Bozcaada Istiklal Primary School, Çanakkale Secondary School and Bursa High School. He started to Istanbul University, Faculty of Medicine in 1940 and he graduated in 1946. He settled in Afyon, where he conducted his military service and managed his own clinic. He established the Türkeli newspaper in Eskişehir, which is still being published today (05.12.1951). He conducted research and compilations in the areas of medicine and social sciences. He has numerous articles published in several journals and newspapers such as Taşpınar and Türkeli; and approximately twenty books. He was retired in 1987, settled in Istanbul, died in there. He was buried in Kozlu Cemetery.

WORKS (Research-Compilation): 

Afyonkarahisar Camileri (1973), Afyonkarahisar Kaplıcaları ve Madensuları (1979), Şair ve Mutasavvıf Gülaboğlu Muhammed Askerî (1980), Afyon‘da Söylenen Ninniler (1980), Afyonkarahisar Bilmeceleri (1980), Afyonkarahisarlı Alim ve Lügatçı Muslihiddin Musta­fa b. Şemseddin Karahisarî Ahterî (1981), Büyük Filozof Esirüddin Ebheri (1980), Ali Çetinkaya (with Behçetoğlu Muzaffer Görktan, 1981), Atatürk Afyon‘da (with B. M. Görktan, 1983), Afyonkarahisar Masalları (1983), Büyük Zafere Doğru (co-op. work, 1984), İmadoğlu Hasan Karahisari (1985), Bütün Yönleriyle Bozcaada (1985), Afyon’daki Kadınana (1986), Afyon‘da Dilek ve Adak Yerleri (1986).

REFERENCE: İmadoğlu Hasan Karahisari / Dr. M. Saadettin Aygen (1985), Kurucumuzu Kaybettik (Türkeli gaze­tesi, issue: 11463, 1998), H. Hakkı Özsoy / Acımız Büyük (Türkeli gazetesi, issue: 11463, 1998), Ahmet Tunca / Afyon Dostu Dost İnsan Dr. Aygen (Türkeli gazetesi, issue: 11463, 1998), TDOE-TDE Ansiklopedisi 2 (2002), İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).