Researcher and writer (b.
1943, Kavak / Samsun). Because of his father’s job as a civil servant, he
attended primary, secondary and high school in Samsun, Amasya and Sinop
respectively. He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Law. He worked
temporarily in various jobs in his youth and he worked at the General
Directorate of Petroleum Company when he was a university student. He took part
in the administration of Caucasian Culture Associations, primarily at the
Ankara Caucasian Culture Association. Between the years 1972-85 he was the Head
of the Board of Directors of the Caucasian Culture Association in Samsun, where
he worked as a freelance lawyer.
His research papers and poems
have been published in the Caucasian press such as Yeni Kafkas, Kafkasya,
Birleşik Kafkasya, Nartların Sesi, Kuzey Kafkasya, Kuzeysu,
Yedi Yıldız. In addition, he published his own review Kafkasya Gerçeği of
which he was editor-in chief.
WORKS:
Kafkas Hasreti (Caucasian Yearning,
anthology, 1966), Vatan Düşüncesi, Adıge Şiirinden Seçmeler (Idea
of Motherland, a collection of Adıge Poetry, 1967), Muhacerette Kuzey
Kafkasyalı Yazarlar (Caucasian Writers Abroad, 1968), Adıge Çerkes
Alfabesinin Tarihçesi (History of Adıge Circassian Alphabet, 1969), Kuzey
Kafkasya Göçmenlerinden Besteciler, Ressamlar, Hattatlar (Composers,
Painters, Calligraphers from North Caucasian Immigrants, 1971), Ölümünün 12.
Yıldönümünde Yaşar Doğu’nun Hayatı (The Life of Yaşar Doğu on the 12th
Anniversary of His Death, 1973), Gurbetteki Kafkasya’dan Belgeler I, II, III (Documents from Caucasia in
Foreign Lands I, II, III, 1985-89), Se Syduinay
(Poems in the Adıge Language, 1986), Türkiye Kurtuluş Savaşı’nda Çerkes Göçmenler
(Circassian Immigrants in the Turkish Independence War, 1990), Kafkas Diasporası’nda
Edebiyatçılar ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (Dictionary of Literary Men and Writers
in Caucasian Diasphora, 1995), Kafkasya ve Çerkesler Bibliyografyası
(Bibliography of Caucasia and the Circassians, 1996).
