Political scientist,
journalist-author. He was born in Ayvalık / Balıkesir on the 18th of
April 1944. He completed his primary education in Nişantaşı Nilüfer Hatun Primary School,
secondary education in English Boys School and high school in Robert College.
After his graduation from Ankara University Faculty
of Political Sciences (1967) he became a research assistant in the Faculty of
Education of the same university (1968-71). He continued this duty in Sweden
Stockholm University where he went for PhD studies (1972-81). He completed a
PhD program in Political Science (1981). When he returned he worked as an
editor and author in newspapers of Cumhuriyet (1982-92), Sabah
(1993-94), Milliyet (1994-2001) and Zaman.
In the same time he gave lessons in Turkey in Anadolu and Boğaziçi Universities
and abroad in Princeton University in the USA. Starting from 2001, he became an
academic member at the Department of Political Sciences and International
Relations in Bahçeşehir University.
Between
the years 1999 - 2002 he presented a weekly interview program called Entelektüe
lBakış in CNN Türk channel. In 2006 he started to present the program Akıl
Defteri in Mehtap TV. He continued writing columns in Zaman newspaper.
WORKS:
Turkar
i Stockholm: En Studie av Invandrare, Samhalle och Politik (Turks
in Stockholm: A Social and Political Research about Immigrants,
1980), SHP-DSP Nerede Birleşiyor Nerede Ayrılıyor (1986), 2000
Yılında Türkiye (1991), Türkiye‘nin Tanıkları – İçerden Bakanlar (2002),
Türkiye‘ninTanıkları - DışardanBakanlar(2003).
TRANSLATIONS (from
Astrid Lindgren): Şamatalı Köy (1990), Pippi Uzunçorap Korsan
(1991).
