Pelin Batu (born 27 December 1978) is a Turkish author, actress, historian, and television personality.

Biography

Due to her father

İnal Batu İnal Batu (24 September 1936 – 5 August 2013) was a Turkish diplomat, politician and member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Biography He was born on 24 September 1936 in Ankara as the son of Selahattin Batu (1905–1973), a zo ...

's career as a diplomat, she spent her childhood in many foreign countries including Pakistan, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France and the USA. She completed high school at Marymount School in

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and pursued musical and theatre training at

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. After starting literature and philosophy at

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, she switched her subject to history and completed it at

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus, Bosphorus strait. It has six facult ...

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. She made her film debut in 1999, portraying the role of Circassian Nevres in ''Harem Suare'' and has gone on to act with several more films and TV series. Batu also co-hosted a show titled ''Tarihin Arka Odası'' (The Back Room of History) which aired on

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with

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and

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. Interested in poetry from a young age, she has written, translated, and published many poems. Her first book of poetry "Glass" was published in 2003, followed by "The Book of Winds" in 2009. She left the program in 2011. She has also appeared on the Turkish TV program ''Yeni Şeyler Söylemek Lazım'', a part of the TRT Haber news channel on 25 December 2010, in which she read her poem of "Wind of Black Stones" herself from her book. Having written poems from the age of eight, on this program she said that even though she is an atheist, if reincarnation existed she would be the reincarnation of the grandfather, Selahattin Batu, as he was also known for his interest in poetry and whom she is commonly compared to. Batu was also a columnist for the daily ''

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'' newspaper (2012–2014).

Filmography

Bibliography

* ''Glass / Cam'', 113pp, 2003, Yapı Kredi, * ''Yahudilik Tarihi'', 304pp, 2007, Yapı Kredi, * ''The Book Of Winds Rüzgarlar Kitabı'', 224pp, 2009, Artshop, * ''Resim Defteri'', 48pp, 2013, Artshop, * ''Her Şey Bir Hikaye İle Başladı'', 2018, İnkılâp Kitabevi, * ''Labirentin'', 2018, İnkılâp Kitabevi,

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* 1978 births 20th-century Turkish actresses 21st-century Turkish actresses Former Muslims turned agnostics or atheists Living people Turkish film actresses Turkish writers Turkish television actresses Turkish television personalities People from Ankara Boğaziçi University alumni Turkish people of Circassian descent Turkish people of Albanian descent Turkish former Muslims Turkish atheism activists Actresses from Ankara {{turkey-actor-stub