Bülent Tekin

Bülent Tekin
Born (1954-02-15) 15 February 1954
Mardin, Turkey
Nationality Kurdish
Period 1974 – present
Genre Poetry, Novel
Subject Literature
Website
www.bulenttekin.net

Bülent Tekin, (15 February 1954) Kurdish poet and writer, citizen of Turkey.[1] Born in Mardin, he studied Chemical Engineering at Istanbul State Academy of Engineering and Architecture, and he graduated from the Construction Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University (Gaziantep Campus). In the 1970s he wrote two novels (“Son” and “Money”), a collection of “Social Poems”, and a research document on the socialism in Allende’s Chile, all four of which were confiscated by the police, thus “lost” and unpublished. He is a member of PEN,[2] of theWriters’ Syndicate of Turkey, of Edebiyatçılar Derneği (Association of Writers), of BESAM (Copyrights Association of Writers and Association of Mesopotamian Journalists, and an honorary member of the Association of Journalists in South Eastern Turkey. He contributed to Gırgır,[3] a leading satirical journal. Tekin prepared a TV program of political analysis for Dijle TV.[4] He is married with two children.

Childhood

He was born in the town called Derik, where he began primary school. Soon his father Abdülaziz Tekin (Azîzê Pîrê) decided to send him to a school in Mardin for a better education. Thanks to the friendship between their families, Bülent Tekin and Murathan Mungan (also a poet and novelist) became friends in childhood. (introduced him to the family of the future poet and novelist and they became friends.)this seems unnecessary Tekin attended the two years of (his)unnecessary middle school in Ankara and the third year in Çermik. He finished high school in Diyarbakır, at Ziya Gökalp Lisesi.

Literary Life

He was impressed by the stories and tales he was told in his childhood and he startad te write. At Primary School (Mardin Ebul’ula Ilkokulu) he won the first prize for writing a composition, organized by the Governorship of Mardin. He began writing poems in high school. He wrote two novels at university, while also writing poetry.

Politics

In the 1970s he was an active member of Istanbul Cultural Association of Higher Education (İYÖKD). He focussed on the Kurdish question. Due to several obstacles, he did not graduate from either the Chemistry Department or the Faculty of Law. He took place on the stage of Kurdistan Revolutinory and at the beginning of the PKK. During the mid 1970s he was active in the movement called The Voice of the Kurdistan Revolution. (KDS)[5]

Works

References

  1. ↑ http://www.edebiyadvesanatakademisi.com/Profil.aspx?id=840
  2. ↑ http://www.pen.org.tr/tr/node/1775
  3. ↑ http://www.internethaber.com/girgir-yazarinin-yeni-kitabi-hazir-346305h.htm#
  4. ↑ Video on YouTube
  5. ↑ http://arsiv.sirince.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=823
  6. ↑ http://www.idefix.com/kitap/bulent-tekin/urun_liste.asp?kid=85351
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