Mehmet Culum
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Mehmet Culum is a contemporary Turkish novelist who was born in a western town of Turkey
called Çeşme
. He studied political sciences at the University of Ankara. Before starting to run an antique shop in his home town he worked as an IT consultant for some time in İzmir. After retiring in 1998, he has begun to dig into the near history of Western Turkey and especially Çeşme Peninsula.
His first book ""AZAB AGA"" is published in April 2004. Culum wrote the true story of his family in this book and didn’t change the names of characters and the events, which took place in the first half of the 20th century.
The compilation of the true stories he listened to in the region of Alaçatı was the theme of his second book ""ALAÇATILI"", published in June 2006. The tragic and blissful events roll around a lawyer of Greek origin from New York, who seeks the roots of his family in Alaçatı, which used to be a Greek settlement for almost a century.
Culum is inspired by the true stories of the Çeşme Peninsula. His third novel ""Kalenin Gölgesinde ÇEŞME"" will meet with its readers in April 2009.
Mehmet Culum's homepage
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
called Çeşme
Çesme
Çeşme is a coastal town and the center-town of the district of the same name in Turkey's western-most end, on a promontory on the tip of the peninsula which also carries the same name and which extends inland to form a whole with the wider Karaburun Peninsula...
. He studied political sciences at the University of Ankara. Before starting to run an antique shop in his home town he worked as an IT consultant for some time in İzmir. After retiring in 1998, he has begun to dig into the near history of Western Turkey and especially Çeşme Peninsula.
His first book ""AZAB AGA"" is published in April 2004. Culum wrote the true story of his family in this book and didn’t change the names of characters and the events, which took place in the first half of the 20th century.
The compilation of the true stories he listened to in the region of Alaçatı was the theme of his second book ""ALAÇATILI"", published in June 2006. The tragic and blissful events roll around a lawyer of Greek origin from New York, who seeks the roots of his family in Alaçatı, which used to be a Greek settlement for almost a century.
Culum is inspired by the true stories of the Çeşme Peninsula. His third novel ""Kalenin Gölgesinde ÇEŞME"" will meet with its readers in April 2009.
Mehmet Culum's homepage