Turgay Kantürk

Poet and writer, actor/director. He was born on June 19, 1961 in Istanbul. He completed his secondary education at Kartal High School (1980). Graduated from Mimar Sinan University Conservatory Theater Department (1991). He started working as an actor while he was still at school. At Dormen Theatre; He acted in plays such as Which Wife, One of Two, House Number Ten, The Priest Has Ran Away, Half of the Road. He took part in the plays called Kamp 17 by Yeditepe Actors and Zorba by F. Hakan Theatre. In 1991, he staged his first play as a director called "Kahvede Şenlik Var" at Bakırköy Municipal Theaters (BBT). In 1995, he directed BKM's first play, "Otogargara". In the same year, he adapted, wrote the lyrics and directed the musical "Ayyar Hamza 95" on BBT. In the same years, he worked as an assistant director and actor in some movies. He founded a young group called Private Theater and initiated the staging of the plays "God" and "On the Open Sea". He created a joint work called "Alphabet Angel" with painter İbrahim Çiftçioğlu and designer Savaş Çekiç. In 1997, he wrote "Dream and Sleep Traps", based on Neş'e Erdok's paintings, and in 1998, he wrote "What I See; What I Blind!", based on a painting by Yavuz Tanyeli. and in 1999, his texts titled "Song for the Fog", written based on İbrahim Çiftçioğlu's paintings, were published as an agenda. He was the editor of Sel Publishing's poetry series and Noyirmiyedi Publishing. He hosted the "Okudukça" program broadcast on TRT 2 channel for six years. His first poems were published in the magazine "Oluşum" in 1981. In the following years, his writings and poems were published in the magazines "Oluşum", "Gösteri", "Varlık", "Sombahar", "Türk Dili", "Sanat Olayı", "Yazko Kitap", "Nar" and "Eskiz" (1991- 92), "Hamlet" (1994) and "No" (1998-), of which he was the editor-in-chief. He won the second prize in the poetry contest organized by Hürriyet Gündem magazine in 1983, and the 1991 Behçet Necatigil Poetry Award with "First Like Son".