Poet and writer (b.
1925, Constanţa /
Romania). He graduated from Kütahya High School (1974) and Ankara University,
Faculty of Political Sciences (1951). He worked as Chief of the Eskişehir
Financial Office and as an inspector at the Ministry of Customs and Monopoly.
His poems, reviews and
interviews were published in the journals Çınaraltı,
Şadırvan, Hisar, Mülkiye, Türk Dili, Varlık beginning from 1954. He won the Turkish Language Association 1962
Interview Award with his serialized interviews called Güneydoğu Yollarında (On the Roads of
South-Eastern Anatolia).
WORKS:
INTERVIEW-TRAVEL:
Güneydoğu
Yollarında (On
the Roads of South-Eastern Anatolia, 1962), Gülen
Anadolu, Uçaktan Anadolu (Smiling
Anatolia, Anatolia From a Plane, 1962),
ANTHOLOGY: Yaşayan Mevlid-i Şerif (Living Blessed
Birth- poem by Süleyman Çelebi celebrating the birth of the Prophet Muhammad,
1964),
REVIEW: İki Hacı İki Kurban, Veysel Karani (Two
Pilgrims Two Sacrifices, Veysel Karani 1966), Hacı Bayram-ı Veli (Hacı Bayram-ı Veli, 1966), Yaşayan Alevilik (Living
Alewism, the beliefs and practices of the Alewi Sect, 1967).