Mehdi Halıcı (born 10 April 1927 in
Konya
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, died 8 April 2008 in
Ä°zmir
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) was a
Turkish
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* of or about Turkey
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writer of
Kurdish
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*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
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* Kurd (dis ...
origin who wrote several
novel
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s and books about Kurdish and Turkish culture and history.
He was also widely known as CemÅŸid Bender, the
pseudonym
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he used for books and articles on the
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
culture and history.
Personal life
Halıcı was born to Sabri Bey, a carpet salesman from
Kiğı
Kiğı ( ku, Gêxî, hy, Քղի, translit=Kʿġi) is a town and district of Bingöl Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey, Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The mayor is Hikmet Özüağ (Justice and Development Party (Turkey), AKP). Th ...
who settled in
Konya
Konya () is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium (), although the Seljuks also called it D ...
. Sabri was a well-known disciple of
Said Nursi.
Halıcı was the brother of poet and politician Feyzi Halıcı and food writer
Nevin Halıcı
Nevin Halıcı is a Turkish writer and lecturer of Turkish cuisine
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and an uncle to businessman and politician Emrehan Halıcı and sociologist
Nilgün Çelebi
Nilgün Çelebi (born 1950) is a Turkish academic.
She studied sociology at the Hacettepe University in Ankara and worked as Professor of General Sociology and Methodology at the Department of Sociology, at the University of Ankara and the Univers ...
.
Works
Among the books written by Halıcı are ''Konya sazı ve türküleri'' (1985)
and ''Karides durağı: hikâyeler'' (1967).
References
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Turkish novelists
20th-century Turkish lawyers
Turkish non-fiction writers
Turkish Kurdish people
People from Konya
1927 births
2008 deaths
20th-century novelists
20th-century non-fiction writers
People from Bingöl Province