Journalist and storywriter
(b. 1909, İstanbul – d. ?). He left Heybeliada Naval School because of a
physical incapacity and entered the Advanced Teacher Training School,
Department of History in 1925. He left the school once again and, encouraged by
Sadri Edhem, the storywriter, he began to work as a journalist on the newspaper
Son Telgraf. After working in
several newspapers in İstanbul until 1934, he left for Ankara and began to work
at the General Directorate of the Press. He served as the Ankara correspondent
of the newspapers Tan, Vatan, Tasvir and Akşam. He returned to
İstanbul in 1944 and worked as the Chief of the Editorial Department of the
newspaper Tan. He published the review Mizah in collaboration
with Ramiz, the caricaturist and Devran with M. Faruk Gürtunca; he
served as the Chief of the Editorial Department at the review Aydede,
which was edited by Refik Halit Karay and later on, he wrote articles for the
newspaper Yeni Sabah. In 1959, he became the General Director of the
Ülkü companies owned by M. Faruk Gürtunca.
He
wrote anecdotes under the title “Sapantaşı” in the newspaper Her
Gün. His novels which number more than twenty, such as Nevres Baba (Father Nevres) and Aşkın
Ölümü (Death of Love) were serialized in several newspapers. Besides short
stories and novel, he wrote the three-act play Şeriatcasına (Like it’s Islamic Law) staged at the People’s Houses.
He did not publish his poems; however, some of them were set to music. The most
famous of these is Kalbimdeki Son Aşka
İnerken Yine Perde (As the Curtains Fall on the Last Love in my Heart),
which was set to music in the style of medieval music by Osman Nihat Akın.
WORKS:
SHORT STORY: Köse Fuad (Bald Fuad, 1929), Olmıyan Şeyler (Things That Do Not
Exist, 1938).
PLAY: Şeriatcasına (Like it’s Islamic Law, 1938), Vatan Çocuğu (Child of the Homeland, 1945).
OTHER: Zeki Müren’in İlk Filmi: Beklenen Şarkı (The First Film of Zeki
Müren: The Expected Song).