İlhan Demiraslan

Poet (b. 24 August 1928, Gelibolu / Çanakkale – d. 29 November 1980, Trabzon). He graduated from Kabataş High School (1947) and İstanbul University, Faculty of Medicine (1954). He completed his probation at Haydarpaşa Numune Hospital and became an internal medicine specialist. He worked as a doctor in Artvin, Tunceli, Tire and Trabzon.

His poems were published in the reviews Folklor Postası and Varlık from 1944. After his earlier poems, in which lyrical elements were dominant, he gravitated towards more contemplative poetry.

WORKS:

İncir Ağacı (The Fig Tree, 1952), Eller Ekmeğe Doğru (Hands Towards the Bread, 1958).