Turkey Alev Alatli Economic Expert Bizim English Editor Aydin Despotizmi Sycophants of Logic Author

Alev Alatli, who is among the most celebrated writers of present times, was born in Turkey in the year 1944. She completed her studies in Economics at Ankara’s Middle East Technical University. Thereafter, she went to USA with her spouse Alper Orhon and completed her Master Degree with a Fulbright Scholarship in the field of Econometrics and Development Economics from the coveted Vanderbilt University.


Alev Atalti went to Jordan and Cairo for getting proper education on the various aspects of Islam. At the same time, she worked as an economic expert. She also worked to develop the model of linguistic learning for the children of Turkey. Alev was the Chief Editor of a magazine that was published periodically and was called ‘Bizim English’. With this, she aimed to teach English to the people of Turkey modeled on their mother tongue and own culture. She also wrote in Istanbul’s Turkish Writers’ Cooperative and worked in the Cappadocia Vocational College as the Head of the Board of Trustees.

Alev Atalti set herself to write books which she planned from a very long time but could not do due to lack of experience and knowledge. The year 1982 saw ‘Aydin Despotizmi’ that in English means despotism of the intellectuals which was the earliest printed book of Alev. In 1985, she came up with her famous novel ‘Yaseminler Tuter mi Hala’ meaning ‘Jasmines smoke no more’ based on the real life story of a woman of Greek origin. The novel mainly tells that the vital patriotic and spiritual feelings need proper nourishment by knowledge of the world.

An Honorary Medal was given by Yaser Arafat in 1986 to honor Alev Alatli for her unpaid transformation of several books. ‘Iskenceci’, a book meaning the torturer was published in 1987 that narrates the unbelievable power of the people of Turkey to bear all religious sufferings. ‘Kadere Karsi Koy A.S.’ was also popular and did good business in the year 1995. In 1999, she published a poetry book named ‘Eylul 1998’ that denotes September 1998.

Alev Alatli is currently working on her Russian novel with four parts named ‘Gogol in Izinde’ meaning on the footsteps of Gogol. In 2006, she was honored with Sholokhov Prize in literature for the ‘World Sentry’ and ‘Grace Over Enlightenment’, the two series of her Russian novels. The last two series of the book Ey Uhniyem, Ey Uhniyem and ‘Sycophants of Logic’ are yet to be published. Alev_Alatli