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Selçuk Altun
Selçuk Altun (born 1950) is a Turkish writer, publisher and retired banking executive. Biography Born in Artvin, Turkey, in 1950, he graduated from the Management Department of Boğaziçi University. He began work in the finance sector in 1974 and was chairman of Yapi Kredi Bank, chairman of one of the Turkey's largest Internet company Superonline from its inception in 1994 and executive board director of the YKY (Yapı Kredi Publications), where he amassed a personal library of 9,000 volumes and published works by Louise Gluck and John Ashbery, before he retired in 2004 to pursue his writing career full-time. “My goal was to write a book by the age of 50”, he says. “Before that, I knew I needed to read, so I read some 4,000 books before I sat down to write. That, more than anything, gave me the confidence I needed.” His first novel ''Yalnızlık Gittiğin Yoldan Gelir'' (''Loneliness Comes from the Road You Go Down'') was published in 2001 and has been subsequently foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artvin
Artvin (Laz language, Laz and ; hy, Արտուին, translit=Artuin) is a List of cities in Turkey, city in northeastern Turkey about inland from the Black Sea. It is located on a hill overlooking the Çoruh, Çoruh River near the Deriner Dam. It is a former bishopric and (vacant) Armenian Catholic titular see and the home of Artvin Çoruh University. History Artifacts dating back to the Bronze Age and even earlier have been found. The area was part of the kingdom of Colchis and part of the Greater Armenia but was always vulnerable to invasions, first the Scythians from across the Caucasus, then the Muslim armies led by Habib, son of Uthman, Caliph Uthman who controlled the area from 853 AD to 1023 when it was conquered by the Byzantine Empire, Byzantines from the Sac Emirate linked to the Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasids. The Principality of Tao-Klarjeti, Principalities of Tao-Klarjeti arose out of the turmoils of the Arab rule in Georgia, Muslim conquests in the Caucasus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
