Haldun Taner
Haldun Taner, a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer.He was born on March 16, 1915 in Istanbul. After graduating from the Galatasaray High School in 1935, he studied politics and economy at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, until a serious health problem forced him to return to Turkey, where he graduated from the Faculty of German Literature and Linguistics in 1950. He also studied theatre and philosophy at the University of Vienna between 1955 and 1957 under the direction of Heinz Kindermann (1894–1985), an Austrian theater and literary scholar.
As a well-disciplined writer accumulating a rich blend of culture, Taner wrote a great number of stories, generally humorous; essays, newspaper columns, travel writings and th
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Patañjali
Patañjali (Devanāgarī पतञ्जलि) (fl. 150 BCE or 2nd c. BCE) is the compiler of the Yoga Sutras, an important collection of aphorisms on Yoga practice, and also the author of the Mahābhāṣya, a major commentary on Pāṇini's Ashtadhyayi. However, it is unlikely that these two works are that of the same author.
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In recent decades the Yoga Sutra has become quite popular worldwide for the precepts regarding practice of Raja Yoga and its philosophical basis. "Yoga" in traditional Hinduism involves inner contemplation, a rigorous system of meditation practice, ethics, metaphysics, and devotion to Brahman. At the same time, his Mahābhāṣya, which first foregrounded the notion of meaning as referring to categorization, remains an important treatise in San -
Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.
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Pamuk's novels include Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red and Snow. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) was a Japanese author, and one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.
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Some of his works present a rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig (then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; present day Gdańsk, Poland) and was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer attempted to make his career as an academic by correcting and expanding Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world.
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Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
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Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russian: Евгений Замятин, sometimes also seen spelled Eugene Zamiatin) Russian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist, whose famous anti-utopia (1924, We) prefigured Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and inspired George Orwell's 1984 (1949). The book was considered a "malicious slander on socialism" in the Soviet Union, and it was not until 1988 when Zamyatin was rehabilitated. In the English-speaking world We has appeared in several translations.
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Yu Hua
Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: 余华; traditional Chinese: 余華; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He practiced dentistry for five years and later turned to fiction writing in 1983 because he didn't like "looking into people’s mouths the whole day." Writing allowed him to be more creative and flexible.[citation needed] He grew up during the Cultural Revolution and many of his stories and novels are marked by this experience. One of the distinctive characteristics of his work is his penchant for detailed descriptions of brutal violence.
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Yu Hua has written four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His most important novels are Chronicle of a Blood Merchant and To Liv -
Nikolai Gogol
People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).
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Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.
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Fakir Baykurt
Asıl adı Tahir olan Fakir Baykurt 1929 yılında Burdur’da doğdu. 1948’de Gönen Köy Enstitüsü’nü bitirdikten sonra köy öğretmeni olarak çalışan yazar, 1955’te Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü’ndeki eğitimini tamamladıktan sonra Sivas, Hafik ve Şavşat’ta Türkçe öğretmenliği yaptı. Demokrat Parti yönetimi tarafından öğretmenlikten alınarak pasif bir göreve getirildi.
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1958’de Cumhuriyet gazetesinde yayımlanan ilk romanı Yılanların Öcü nedeniyle hakkında kovuşturma açıldı. 1960 yılındaki askeri müdahalenin ardından ilköğretim müfettişliğine getirildi.
1962-63 yıllarında ABD Bloomington Indiana Üniversitesi’nde ders araçları konusunda uzmanlık eğitimi gören Baykurt, Türkiye Öğretmenler Sendikası’nın (TÖS) ve Türkiye Öğretmenler Dernekleri Milli Federasyonu’n -
Sait Faik Abasıyanık
Sait Faik Abasıyanık (18 November 1906 - 11 May 1954) was one of the greatest Turkish writers of short stories and poetry. Born in Adapazarı, he was educated at the Istanbul Erkek Lisesi. He enrolled in the Turcology Department of Istanbul University in 1928, but under pressure from his father went to Switzerland to study economics in 1930. He left school and lived for three years in Grenoble, France - an experience which made a deep impact on his art and character. After returning to Turkey he taught Turkish in Halıcıoğlu Armenian School for Orphans, and tried to follow his father's wishes and go into business but was unsuccessful. He devoted his life to writing after 1934. He created a brand new language and brought new life to Turkish sh
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Sevgi Soysal
Sevgi Soysal was born in Istanbul in 1936. She grew up in Ankara with her father, an architect-bureaucrat originally from Salonica, and her German mother. She studied archaeology in Ankara, continuing her education in that field as well as theater at Göttingen University.
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Soysal’s first volume of short stories, Tutkulu Perçem (Passionate Bangs), was published in 1962, the same year that Soysal began working for the Turkish national television and radio (TRT). She went on to write Tante Rosa, a novel of interconnected stories based upon the life and personality of her aunt, Rosel. Her novel addressing male-female relationships and the issue of marriage, Yürümek (Walking), was banned upon charges of obscenity. In 1974 Soysal won the prestigiou -
İhsan Oktay Anar
Türk yazardır. Lisans, master ve doktora eğitimini Ege Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nde yaptı. Aynı okulda öğretim üyeliğinden emekli olmuştur.
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Her bir kitabının çok uzun araştırmalardan sonra yazıldığı içerdikleri ağır tarihi bilgi ile göze çarpar. Eserleri pek çok küçük hikâye etrafında örülmüş büyük bir roman biçimindedir.
Yazın biçim göndermeler içerir. Kabaca birkaç örnek vermek gerekirse Amat'taki İsrafil adlı çocuğun gemi borazancısı olup diriliş düdüğünü çalışı islamiyette kıyamet haberi olan borazanı çalacak meleğe, alt ambar toprak altına ve mezara göndermeler ya da modellemelerdir. Bu üslup okuyucuyu hem yetiştirir, hem geliştirir. Umberto Eco bu biçimde gelişen okuru ampirik okurdan ayırmaktadır. Her gerçek yazar aslında bu tip inc -
Gülse Birsel
Gülse Birsel is a Turkish comedian, writer, screenwriter and actress.
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She attended Beyoğlu Anadolu High school and got a degree in economics at Boğaziçi University. She started working for Aktüel magazine as a correspondent in her second year as an undergraduate. Finally, she graduated from Boğaziçi University as an economist and began working for Aktüel magazine as an editor in 1994. She went to New York and studied for a master's degree in the film program of Columbia University's School of the Arts.
She was first noticed through her articles in Turkish newspapers, titled "Metropol Manzaraları" (Views of the Metropolis, "Metropolis" is actually Istanbul), with her easily noticed funny touches of city life. She later presented a comedy show -
Yusuf Atılgan
Yusuf Atılgan (27 June 1921, Manisa - 9 October 1989, İstanbul) was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels Aylak Adam (The Loiterer) and Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel). He is one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish novel.
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Atılgan is considered as one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish novel. His novels had a psychological style, digging into themes such as loneliness, questioning, meaning of life.
Atılgan finished middle school in Manisa, then high school in Balıkesir. He graduated in Turkish language and literature from İstanbul University. He finished his thesis titled Tokatlı Kani: Sanat, şahsiyet ve psikoloji under supervision of Nihat Tarlan. Atılgan then began teaching literature at Maltepe Askeri Lise -
Ahmet Ümit
Ahmet Ümit was born in 1960 in the city of Gaziantep in southern Turkey. He moved to Istanbul in 1978 to attend university. In 1983 he both graduated from the Public Administration Faculty of Marmara University and wrote his very first story. An active member of the Turkish Communist Party from 1974 until 1989 Ümit took part in the underground movement for democracy while Turkey was under the rule of a
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military dictatorship between 1980-1990. In 1985-86 he illegally attended the Academy for Social Sciences in Moscow. Ümit worked in the advertising sector from 1989-1998 and is currently employed as cultural advisor at the Goethe Foundation in Istanbul. He has one daughter Gül. Since 1989 Ümit has published one volume of poetry three volumes o -
Yaşar Kemal
Yaşar Kemal, asıl adı Kemal Sadık Gökçeli. Van Gölü’ne yakın Ernis (bugün Ünseli) köyünden olan ailesinin Birinci Dünya Savaşı’ndaki Rus işgali yüzünden uzun bir göç süreci sonunda yerleştiği Osmaniye’nin Kadirli ilçesine bağlı Hemite köyünde 1926’da doğdu. Doğum yılı bazı biyografilerde 1923 olarak geçer.
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Ortaokulu son sınıf öğrencisiyken terk ettikten sonra ırgat kâtipliği, ırgatbaşılık, öğretmen vekilliği, kütüphane memurluğu, traktör sürücülüğü, çeltik tarlalarında kontrolörlük yaptı. 1940’lı yılların başlarında Pertev Naili Boratav, Abidin Dino ve Arif Dino gibi sol eğilimli sanatçı ve yazarlarla ilişki kurdu; 17 yaşındayken siyasi nedenlerle ilk tutukluluk deneyimini yaşadı. 1943’te bir folklor derlemesi olan ilk kitabı Ağıtlar’ı yayım -
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ was a Turkish archaeologist, sumerologist, assyriologist, writer and supercentenarian who specialised in the study of Hittites and Sumerian civilization. She stirred controversy in the Muslim world and received worldwide media coverage in 2006 with her assertion, outlined in her book from the previous year, that the headscarf worn by Muslim women did not originate in the Muslim world, but was purportedly worn five thousand years earlier by Sumerian priestesses as a means of initiating young men into sex.
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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 - 24 January 1962) was one of the most important modern novelists and essayists of Turkish literature. He was also a member of the Turkish parliament (the Grand National Assembly of Turkey) between 1942 and 1946.
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Tanpınar was born in Istanbul on 23 June 1901. His father was a judge, Hüseyin Fikri Efendi. Hüseyin Fikri Efendi was Georgian from Maçahel. Tanpınar's mother died at Mosul, when Tanpınar was thirteen. Because his father's vocation required frequent relocation, Tanpınar continued his education in several different cities, including Istanbul, Sinop, Siirt, Kirkuk, and Antalya. After quitting veterinary college, he resumed his educational career at the Faculty of Literature at Istanbul University, wh -
Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Reşat Nuri Güntekin (Istanbul, 25 November 1889 - London, 13 December 1956) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter and playwright. His novel, Çalıkuşu ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia; the movie was filmed on this book in 1966, and remade as TV series in 1986. His narrative has a detailed and precise style, with a realistic tone. His other significant novels include Yeşil Gece ("Green Night") and Yaprak Dökümü ("The Fall Of Leaves")
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Biography
His father was a major in the army. Reşat Nuri attended primary school in Çanakkale, the Çanakkale Secondary School and the İzmir School of Freres. He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature in 1912. He worked as a teacher and administra -
Halikarnas Balıkçısı
Asıl adı Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı olan Balıkçı 17 Nisan 1890'da doğdu. İlköğrenimini Büyükada Mahalle Mektebi'nde, ortaöğrenimini Robert Koleji'nde yaptı (1904). Oxford Üniversitesi'nde dört yıl Yakın Çağlar Tarihi okudu, üniversiteyi orada bitirdi. İstanbul'a dönünce Resimli Ay, İnci vb. dergilerde yazılar yazdı, kapak resimleri ve süslemeler yaptı, karikatürler çizdi (1910-1925). Cumhuriyetten sonra asker kaçaklarıyla ilgili bir yazısı yüzünden üç yıl kalebentlikle Bodrum'a sürüldü. Cezasının son yarısını İstanbul'da çektikten sonra yeniden döndüğü Bodrum'da kaldı; Anadolu ve Akdeniz kültürünün tanınması için çalıştı, kapsamlı araştırmalar yaptı. Araştırma sonuçlarını denemeleriyle dünya okuruna sundu. Serveti Fünun, Cumhuriyet ve daha sonr
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Nermin Yıldırım
Nermin Yıldırım, Türk edebiyatçı, yazar. 2002 yılında Anadolu Üniversitesi İletişim Bilimleri Fakültesi Basın Yayın Bölümü’nden mezun oldu. Üniversite yıllarında Alem-i Nisvan adlı feminist bir fanzin çıkardı. Mezun olduktan sonra çeşitli gazete ve dergilerde muhabir, editör ve köşe yazarı olarak çalıştı, reklam ajanslarında metin yazarlığı yaptı.
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Manchester Letters, Tramline Project gibi uluslararası edebiyat projelerine katılarak, çeşitli ülkelerin yazarlarıyla ortak çalışmalar yaptı. Köln Kültür Dairesi’nin davet ettiği ilk Türk yazar olarak, 2013 kışını dünyanın farklı ülkelerinden sanatçıların ağırlandığı program kapsamında Köln'de geçirdi. Romanları yabancı dillere çevrilen ve pek çok uluslararası edebiyat festivaline konuk olan Yıldır -
Melisa Kesmez
MELİSA KESMEZ, Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Bir dönem Londra’da yaşadı. Çeşitli dergi ve gazetelerde yazıları ve söyleşileri yayımlandı. Çeviriler yaptı. İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Keriman isimli bir kedisi var.
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Aylin Balboa
1980 yılında İzmit’te doğdu. Öğrencilik yıllarını Ankara’da geçirdi. Çeşitli dergilerde yazıları yayımlandı. Halen İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Balık adında bir köpeği var.
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Nilay Örnek
İstanbul doğumlu Nilay Örnek, üniversite döneminde çalışmaya başladığı Sabah gazetesinde 5 yıl boyunca yazı işleri editörlüğü yaptı.
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2000 yılından itibaren 8 yıl boyunca Milliyet gazetesinde editör ve yazar olarak çalıştı.
Milliyet’te çalıştığı dönemde önce ABD’de, Rutgers Üniversitesi’nde eğitim gördü, ardından da Knight Wallace Fellows adlı gazetecilik bursunu aldı.
2008’de Habertürk gazetesinde çalışmaya başladı; köşe yazarlığı da yaptığı gazetede önce yazı işleri müdür yardımcısı, ardından da hafta sonu ekleri yayın yönetmeni olarak görev aldı.
Sonrasında Akşam gazetesi ek yayınlar genel yayın yönetmeni oldu. 2.5 yıl süren bu görevin ardından bir dönem Gazetevatan.com’un genel yayın yönetmeni ve yazarıydı.
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Şermin Yaşar
See also: Şermin Çarkacı
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"Oyuncu Anne" lakabıyla bilinen ve yazdığı ebeveynlik kitaplarıyla büyük bir ilgi kazanan Şermin Çarkacı, 2017 yılında medeni durum değişikliği sebebiyle babasının soyadı olan Yaşar soyadını kullanmaya başlamıştır.
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Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı
Modern Türk şiirinin en bilinen ve sevilen yapıtlarından biri olan ''Otuz Beş Yaş'' şiirine imza atan Tarancı, Behçet Necatigil'in deyişiyle, ''biçim kaygısını ön planda tuttuğu şiirlerinde yaşamanın ve aşkın güzelliğini övdü, ölümün üstünlüğünü vurguladı.''
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Asıl adı Hüseyin Cahit olan Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, ilkokulu doğum yeri olan Diyarbakır'da, ortaokulu İstanbul'da Saint Joseph'te, liseyi Galatasaray Lisesi'nde okudu. Şiir yazmaya lisede başladı. 1931'de Mülkiye Mektebi'ne yazıldı, dört yıl sonra bitiremeden ayrıldı. Fransız şairlerin etkilerinin görüldüğü ilk şiirleri 1930-31'de Galatasaray Lisesi'nin ''Akademi'' dergisiyle ''Muhit'' ve ''Servetifünun-Uyanış'' dergilerinde yayımlandı. Edebiyat dünyasında tanınmasında 1932'de Peyami Safa'n -
Tahsin Yücel
Tahsin Yücel (17 August 1933 – 22 January 2016) was a Turkish translator, novelist, essayist and literary critic.
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Born in Elbistan, Yücel studied at the Istanbul University, graduating in French philology. After completing his postgraduate studies, in 1978 he became professor in the same university. In addition to being author of essays, novels and short stories, Yücel was mainly active as a translator of about 70 novels from French into Turkish.
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Kunduracı olan Ahment Yücel'le Nuriye Münevver Hanım'ın oğludur. İlköğrenimini Elbistan Gazi Paşa İlkokulu'nda tamamladıktan sonra 1945'te İstanbul'a gelmiştir. Burda; 1953'te Galatasaray Lisesi'ni, 1960'da da İÜEF Fransız Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü'nü bitirdi. Fakülteyi bitirdikten son -
Cemal Kafadar
Cemal Kafadar, halen Harvard Üniversitesi Ortadoğu Tarihi Bölümü'nde öğretim üyesi. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (İki Cihan Âresinde) adlı Osmanlı'nın kuruluş düzenini anlattığı 1995 tarihli bir kitabı bulunmaktadır.
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Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar
He was born in the mansion of his maternal grandfather Muhtar Bey in Rumelihisarı. Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar's childhood was spent in Rumelihisarı, Büyükada and Çamlıca. In 1898, he entered Galatasaray Sultanisi.
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Without informing his family, he left Galatasaray Sultanisi in 1905 and went to Paris. He attended the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris until 1908. In Paris, he frequently met with Prince Sebahattin, Dr. Nihat Reşat Belger, Ahmet Rıza Bey and Yahya Kemal.
He returned to Turkey after the declaration of the Second Constitutional Monarchy (1908). He worked for French and German companies, the Ottoman Bank, the Reji Administration, and after 1931 he settled in Ankara and worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1948, he ret -
Herkül Millas
1940’ta Ankara’da doğdu. Yüksek öğrenimini 1965’te Robert Kolej’de tamamladı. 1960’larda öğrenci hareketinde yer aldı. TİP üyesiydi. 1971’de Atina’ya yerleşti. Yunanca’dan Türkçe’ye Ritsos, Seferis, Elitis vd. şairlerin yapıtlarını çevirdi. Halen A.Ü. D.T.C.F. Çağdaş Yunan Edebiyatı Bölümü’nde öğretim üyesiydi. Bu yıllarda Siyaset Bilimi bölümünde doktora öğrenimini tamamladı. Türk-Yunan ilişkileri ve karşılıklı algılamalar konusunda kitap ve makaleleri Türkçe, Yunanca ve İngilizce olarak çeşitli ülkelerde yayımlandı.
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Samet Ağaoğlu
Samet Ağaoğlu 1909’da Bakü’de doğdu 6 Ağustos 1982’de İstanbul’da öldü. İlk ve orta öğrenimini Beyazıt Feyziye Mektebi’nde tamamladı. 1926 yılında Ankara Lisesi’ni, 1931 yılında ise Ankara Hukuk Fakültesi’ni bitirdi. Üniversite eğitiminden sonra doktora çalışması amacıyla gittiği Strasbourg’da on altı ay kaldı. Ancak, doktorasını tamamlamadan Türkiye’ye döndü. İktisat ve ticaret bakanlıklarında çalıştı.
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Fikir ve siyaset adamı Ahmet Ağaoğlu’nun oğlu olan Samet Ağaoğlu, avukatlığa başladığı 1946 yılında Demokrat Parti ’ye katılarak siyasete atıldı. 1950 ile 1960 arasında Manisa Milletvekili olarak Meclis’te yer aldı. Aynı dönem, Adnan Menderes hükümetlerinde çalışma, sanayi ve devlet bakanlığı görevlerinde bulundu. 27 Mayıs 1960 ihtilalinin ar