Writer and
politician (b. 26 April 1936, İstanbul). He attended Vezneciler Altıncı Primary
School and the secondary class at Pertevniyal High School and graduated from
Diyarbakır Ziya Gökalp High School and Ankara University, Faculty of Political
Sciences (1959). He did his MBA in the United States at Georgia University and
Michigan University where he received a Certificate of Effective Management.
For a while he worked as a bank supervisor and then as a manager in the finance
department at the State Planning Organization. At that time he also gave
lectures at different universities and foundations. He was a manager and
consultant in the private sector. In 1995 and 1999 he was elected as the
İstanbul parliamentary deputy for the Motherland Party.
He has
written political articles in the newspaper Sabah. All of his plays were
taken as part of the repertoire of İstanbul Municipal City Theater. His
articles have been published in columns releteing to religion and politics. His
work Güz Sancısı (Autumn Stomachache) and Salkım Hanımın Taneleri (Seeds
of Salkım Hanım) have been translated into foreign languages. In 1999 his work Salkım
Hanımın Taneleri (Seeds of Salkım Hanım), with which he collected the Yunus
Nadi Novel Award in 1990, was filmed. The film won the Best Film Award at the
Antalya Golden Orange Festival. Turk İktisad Tarihi Belgeseli
(Documentary of the History of the Turkish Economy) for which he wrote the text
was broadcast by the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation an eight-part
serial. In his most talked about novel Salkım Hanımın Taneleri (Seeds of
Salkım Hanım), he explains the development of employment during the years of
World War II, bankruptcy and developing economic sectors, Jewish merchant
families, wealth class changes and the change in morality and culture in this
process, tax on wealth and earnings and the approach of the government of
Saraçoğlu regarding this subject.
WORKS:
SHORT STORY: Mor Çiçekli Natürmort (Still Life with
Purple Flower, 1984), Mevsimler Eskidi
Biraz (Seasons Became a little Old, 2000).
NOVEL: Salkım Hanımın Taneleri (Seeds of Salkım
Hanım, 1990), Üç Aliler Divanı
(Divan* of Three Alis, 1991), Güz Sancısı
(Autumn Stomachache, 1998), Çiçekli
Mumlar Sokağı (The Street of Flowery Candles, 2000).
POETRY: O Hayal Aynasından (From that Dream Mirror, 1988), Rubailer (Rubais*, 1998).
PLAY: Sokullu / Zirveden Sonra Devlet (Sokullu
/ State After the Summit, staged at İstanbul Municipality City Theater, 1989), Altın Huylu Doruklar / Yıldırım Beyazıd (Golden
Suspicious Peaks/Yıldırım Beyazıd, staged at İstanbul Municipality City
Theatres, 1986), Brütüs Aranıyor (Brutus Wanted, staged at İstanbul
Municipality City Theatres, 1989), Romanos
Diyojen (Romanos Diyojen, staged at İstanbul Municipality City Theatres and
State Theaters, 1990), Mithat Paşa / Önce
İnsan (Mithat Paşa / Firstly Human, 1997; staged at İstanbul Municipality
City Theatres and State Theater, 1995), Kuzguncuklu
Fazilet (Fazilet from Kuzguncuk, 1997; musical, staged at İstanbul
Municipality City Theatres and State Theaters, 1995).
STUDY: Türk Ekonomisinde Çağdaşlaşma Süreci
(The Process of Being Contemporary in Turkish Economy, 1997), Liberalizmin Türkiye Promenadı (Turkey’s
Promenade of Liberalism, 1997).