Emine Çaykara

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Emine Çaykara

Emine Çaykara (born 1964) is Turkish writer and historian.[1] Born in Istanbul, Turkey, she is a graduate of Istanbul University’s Classical Archeology Faculty. During her studies at Istanbul University she worked at the Ephesus Museum cataloguing ancient sculptures, followed by a two-year participation with an Austrian Archeological Team during their Artemis’ Temple excavation. Due to her background in French she spent the next few years after graduation as a professional tour guide. During that period she translated many works to Turkish.

Between 1993 and 1994 Çaykara worked as a journalist with the weekly magazine Panorama and as an editor with , a monthly cultural and environmental periodical. In 1994, she joined the periodical Tempo penning a weekly political column The 8th Day and as a science, religion, and culture and arts editor.

After leaving Tempo in 2000, she translated The Best History of Human Being, a book outlining seven million years of human history and development. In 2001 she released her first work, My Angel Mother and I (), followed by The Turkish Einstein, Oktay Sinanoglu in October 2001. The following year Çaykara released her third book, . Her translation of Picasso’s Table was released in December 2002.

Between 2001 and 2004 she worked as editor-in-chief with the monthly magazine , published by IDO (Istanbul Marine Coach Enterprises), and Istanbullu (The Istanbulite), a magazine for the Istanbul Municipality.

In September 2005 she edited the book The Turkish Superbrands. She released her fourth work, The North Star of Historians, Halil Inalcik (), an in-depth biography of Ottoman historian Halil İnalcık, in October 2005. In April 2007 Çaykara released her fifth work, The Entrusted Shadow / From New Zealand to Gallipoli 1915, a book about an unknown Anzac soldier whose camera and photographs were rediscovered 90 years after his death in Gallipoli.

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  1. ^ "Eminecaykara.com".
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