Poet
and writer (b. 1 July 1949, Urfa). He attended Cumhuriyet Primary School
(1959), the elementary grade of the Institute of Arts for Boy's (1963), Urfa
High School (1966), and graduated from Erzurum Atatürk University, Faculty of
Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics (1971). He taught agriculture
at Aksu Teacher Training College for some time (1972-74). Later on, he served
as a civil engineer at Adana State Hydraulic Works (1974-77), head of the
branch offices of the Turkish Agricultural Supply Department in Urfa, Eskişehir
and Balıkesir (1978-96), assistant manager (1996-98) and member of the
executive committee of the Turkish Agricultural Supply Department. He
officially retired and from 1998 to 2000, he worked as the Chairman of the
Writers Union of Turkey. He has been acknowledged with an honorary doctorate of
literature by the World Academy of Culture and Arts. He was elected as the
Şanlıurfa parliamentary deputy for the Justice and Development Party at the
national elections held on 3 November 2003.
His
first poem Eski Kent (Old City) was published in the newspaper Şafak
(Urfa, 1966). Later, he published his poems and articles in the reviews Balıklı
Göl (Urfa, 1966), Harran (Urfa, 1979), where he was a member of the
editorial board and head of the editorial department and in Adımlar
(Erzurum, 1970-72), Fikir ve Sanatta Hareket (1970-75), Mavera
(1976-80), Edebiyat (1970-75) and Dergâh (1990), as well as in
newspapers such as Yeni Devir, Zaman, and Yeni Şafak. In 1981, he
collected the Writers Union of Turkey Poetry Award with Şehrayin
(Illuminations) and in
WORKS:
POETRY: Doğudan Batıdan Ortadoğudan (From
the East, the West and the Middle East, 1976), Şehrayin (Illuminations
1981), Aney (Mom, 1983), Zor Sözler (Difficult Words, 1989), Childhood
Dreams (poems translated into English, 1991), Merhaba Ey Hüzün
(Hello O Grief, 1996), Künyemize Aşk Yazıldı (Love is Written on Our
Identity Discs, 1997).
RESEARCH:
Peygamberler Şehri Şanlıurfa (Şanlıurfa, City of Prophets, 1986).
ESSAY: Beyaz Adamın Kutusu (White Man’s Box, 2001).
SOUVENIR: Şair ve Yazar Dostlarım (2015).