Poet (b. 28 June 1929, Göktepe town /
Sarıveliler / Karaman - d. 29 August 2018, Istanbul)). He attended the Göktepe Primary School (1943), the
School of Veterinary Health Technicians (1948), and the Language School of Ordu
(1960). After his retirement in 1968, he started to work for the newspaper Milliyet. He worked as a correspondent,
news coordinator and head of the editorial department and editor-in-chief for
the newspapers such as Akşam, Güneş, Yeni
İstanbul, Son Posta, Hergün and
Ortadoğu. He was a founding member of the Authors and Artists Foundation of
Turkish World and became the İstanbul representative to the Professional
Association of Scientific and Literary Work Owners of Turkey. He is a founding
member of the Journalists Association of Turkey, the Union of Journalists and a
member of the executive board of the Professional Association of Scientific and
Literary Work Owners of Turkey.
His first poem was
published in the review Erciyes in
1947. His poems and articles appeared in many reviews such as Çınaraltı, Hisar, Türk Edebiyatı, Türk Dili,
Millî Kültür, Yeni Ufuklar, Türk Yurdu, Türk Dünyası, Kültür Dünyası, Orkun
Tarla, Kızılelema, Türk Sanatı, Petek and Dokuz Eylül; and in newspapers such as Hergün, Ortadoğu, Güneş, Yeni İstanbul, Bayrak, Ayyıldız and Bugün since 1947. Together with some of
his friends, he has published a review on music called Mızrap for six years. Over 30 poems of Akdağ were set to music in
various compositions of Turkish Classical Music. In 1977, he collected the
Award for the Journalist of the Year in the category of investigative
journalism. The Ministry of Culture opened a public library after his
name.
WORKS:
POETRY:
Kırkikindi (The Afternoon Rains, 1967), Dar Saat (The Restricted Time,
1973), Uzun Hava (The Long Song, 1991), Yağmura Duran Bulut (The Cloud to
Rain, 1999), Önce Şiir Vardı (At
First, There was Poetry, 1999), Boşa
Çiğnemedim Yalan Dünyayı (I Didn’t Run Over the Fake World in Vain, 2003).
