
He was born in Istanbul 71 years ago and studied in Turkey and Greece and was a member of the main Kemalist party in Turkey, the center-left Republican People’s Party.
When he came to Athens to study he worked as a journalist in a number of Greek and Turkish newspapers and was also widely respected in Turkey’s academic circles,writing a number of books on Greece and Turkey.
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