Book
Yalıdakiler
From Sedat Simavi to Aydın Doğan, from Tercüman to Taraf: the inner workings of the yalı brotherhood. A diagnosis of how success is so often won in the shadow of relationships rather than through luck or effort.
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Writer · Engineer
Writer · Engineer
Tayfun
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Writer and civil engineer, born 1962. Author of Erguvaniler and Yalıdakiler, two books that map the networks of Turkey’s oligarchy. He lives in İzmir.
- Born
- 1962, Gönen
- Education
- Dokuz Eylül Univ. — Civil Eng., Marine Structures
- Published in
- Renkli, BirGün, LeMan, Yeni Harman, Akıl Defteri
Motto
“…all science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided…”
„…alle Wissenschaft wäre überflüssig, wenn die Erscheinungsform und das Wesen der Dinge unmittelbar zusammenfielen…“
“…eğer şeylerin dış görünüşü ile özü doğrudan doğruya çakışsaydı, her türlü bilim gereksiz olurdu…”
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Books
Book
Erguvaniler
Oligarchy — a key concept of the Turkish socialist movement — ceases to be an abstraction and takes on flesh and blood. The author’s first book: seven printings and a cult following.
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Rosetta and HalleyHow the Rosetta spacecraft got its name from Ottoman Egypt, and the doomsday panic Halley’s Comet caused in Istanbul in 1910.
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Suspects by Default: Istanbul’s Bachelor LadsA social and political history of the bachelor rooms of Ottoman Istanbul.
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The Astronomer and the GeographerPDFRemembering a journey with Oğuzhan Müftüoğlu and two generations of revolutionaries.
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Biography
Born in 1962 in Gönen, Balıkesir. He attended Vecihibey Primary School in Bandırma and completed middle and high school at Karataş Lisesi in İzmir. He studied Civil Engineering (BSc) and Coastal & Marine Structures (MSc) at Dokuz Eylül University, and went on to work as an engineer for several municipalities and in the private sector.