Engin Ardıç (born 1 February 1952) is a Turkish writer and a newspaper columnist for the Sabah newspaper. He also worked as a television commentator in the 1990s.
Biography
Ardıç was born on 1 February 1952 in
Trabzon
Trabzon (; Ancient Greek: Tραπεζοῦς (''Trapezous''), Ophitic Pontic Greek: Τραπεζούντα (''Trapezounta''); Georgian: ტრაპიზონი (''Trapizoni'')), historically known as Trebizond in English, is a city on the Bl ...
, a coastal city on the northern
Black Sea
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shores of
Anatolia
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. After movıng to
Istanbul
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at a very early age due to his parents' jobs, he spent his childhood mostly in
Beşiktaş
Beşiktaş () is a district and municipality of Istanbul, Turkey, located on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait. It is bordered on the north by Sarıyer and Şişli, on the west by Kağıthane and Şişli, on the south by Beyoğlu, and ...
. In 1959, he was admitted to the elementary section of
Galatasaray High School
Galatasaray High School ( tr, Galatasaray Lisesi, french: Lycée de Galatasaray), established in what was then Constantinople and is now Istanbul, in 1481, is the oldest high school in Turkey. It is also the second-oldest Turkish educational in ...
.
Following his graduation from Galatasaray High School, Ardıç entered
Boğaziçi University
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and graduated from there with a degree in
political sciences
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. Due to his interest in theater, his first writings in the early 1970s were mostly theater reviews for the magazine "Tiyatro" (''Theater''). He also wrote literary critiques in Yeni Dergi (''New Magazine''), Politika (''Politics'') and the Cumhuriyet (''The Republic'') newspaper. He is currently a columnist in the Sabah newspaper.
His writing style often contains street slang. He has at times been accused of being a misogynist and of promoting hate speech,
charges which he has vehemently denied.
Bibliography
* "''Doğru Söyleyeni Dokuz Köyden...''" (1988)
* "''Kadın Suretleri''" (1989)
* "''İslâm Teksas'ta''" (1989)
* "''Şengül Hamamı''" (1989)
* "''
Mustafa Kemal
Mustafa ( ar, مصطفى
, Muṣṭafā) is one of the names of Prophet Muhammad, and the name means "chosen, selected, appointed, preferred", used as an Arabic given name and surname. Mustafa is a common name in the Muslim world.
Given name Mo ...
Sizin Gibi Kıro Değildi!''" (1990)
* "''Daktilo Konçertoları''" (1990)
* "''Turkobarok''" (1991)
* "''Teğel Teğel Hüzün''" (1991)
* "''Burjuvazi Şeyediyor Haa...''" (1999)
References
* Biyografi.net
''Engin Ardıç''* Ansiklopedik ''Turkcebilgi.com''
''Engin Ardıç''
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1952 births
Living people
Galatasaray High School alumni
People from Trabzon
Turkish journalists
Cumhuriyet people
Sabah (newspaper) people