Researcher, folklore researcher (b. 1946, Kirkuk / Iraq).
After completing his primary and elementary education, he came to Turkey.
He graduated from the Istanbul Academy
of Fine Arts, Department of Advanced
Architecture (1974) (now Mimar
Sinan University).
He worked at various institutions and organizations as a specialist in
historical environment protection. He completed his PhD thesis “Kerkük Kenti ve Ev Mimarisi” (City of Kirkuk
and House Architecture) at İstanbul Technical
University, Faculty of
Architecture, Department of Restoration in 1992. He became an associate
professor in 1994. He was appointed as an academician to the Training School of
Mimar Sinan University, Architecture Restoration Department. He was made Head
of the Department in 1997 and of the Training School in 2002. He became a
professor in same year. He has written many papers, which have been submitted
to national and international symposiums and has had research and study papers
published.
WORKS: Kerkük Çocuk Folkloru (Children’s
Folklore of Kirkuk, 1984), Mimar Sinan (Mimar Sinan, 1987), Mimar
Sinan’ın Yapıtlarındaki Kitabeler (Epitaphs on Mimar Sinan’s Works, 1988), Mimar
Sinan ve Tezkiretü’l Bünyan (Mimar Sinan and the Book of Buildings, in
English, 1989), Irak Muasır Türk Şairleri Antolojisi (Anthology
of Modern Turkish Poets in Iraq, 1991), Kerkük Güldestesi (Anthology of
Kirkuk), Başlangıcından Günümüze Kadar Türkiye Dışındaki Türk
Edebiyatları Antolojisi (Anthology of Turkish Literature Outside Turkey from
the Past to Present , Prose and Poetry, 6th volume: Turkish
Literature in Iraq (Kirkuk), 1997), Kerküklü Mehmet Rasih Öztürkmen – Hayatı
ve Şiirleri (Mehmet Rasih Öztürkmen of Kirkuk – Life and Poems, 2001), Tarihten
Günümüze Irak Türkmenleri (History of Iraqi Turkmen, 2003).
