Funeral details for Alev Alatlı have been announced

Author and academic Alev Alatlı has passed away in the hospital in Istanbul where she was receiving treatment for COPD.

The funeral program for Alatlı, who published works such as "Yaseminler Tüter mi, Hâlâ?" (Do the Jasmines Still Smoke?), "İşkenceci" (The Torturer), "O.K Musti Türkiye Tamamdır" (O.K. Musti, Turkey is Done), and "Schrödinger'in Kedisi" (Schrödinger's Cat) during her lifetime, has been announced.

The author's funeral will be held tomorrow (February 3) following the noon prayer at Eyüp Sultan Mosque, after which she will be laid to rest at the Mihrişah Valide Sultan Haziresi.

'I HAVE TO WRITE TO LIVE'

In her final interview before her death, Alev Alatlı emphasized that putting in effort is essential for every profession and stated the following:

"Some perhaps a little more, but it definitely requires effort. In my specific case, there were things I absolutely wanted to tell. I had a worldview I wanted to share; it was as if I would die if I couldn't tell it! I had to write to live. Being a writer first requires a cause.

If you have a cause at school, at home, in art, or in literature, do not stop, write. The second is discipline. The day you can write 15 pages off the cuff without getting up from the table, it means you have the makings of a writer."

WHO IS ALEV ALATLI?

Born in İzmir in 1944, Alev Alatlı attended high school in Tokyo, Japan. She received her bachelor's degree in Economics & Statistics from METU and her master's degree in Economics & Econometrics from Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) in the USA, where she went on a Fulbright scholarship.

Subsequently, she began her studies in philosophy and continued her doctoral work at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. She focused on theology, the history of thought, and civilization.

She returned to Turkey in 1974 and worked as a lecturer at the Istanbul University Faculty of Economics and as a senior economist at the State Planning Organization in Ankara. She conducted joint psycho-linguistics studies with the University of California (Berkeley).

Alatlı, who published a magazine called "Bizim English" in collaboration with Cumhuriyet Newspaper, later served as the vice president of the Turkish Writers Cooperative (YAZKO).

In 1985 and 1986, Edward Said's "Covering Islam" and "The Question of Palestine" were published. Her work to raise awareness for the Palestinian cause was honored with the "Freedom Medal" by Yasser Arafat, who was in exile in Tunisia, in 1986.

In 2006, she received the Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov 100th Anniversary Literature Prize in Russia.

In 2014, she was the recipient of the Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Prize in the field of literature.

She was honored with honorary doctorates by Bülent Ecevit University in 2012 and Süleyman Demirel University in 2017.

She served as the chair of the board of trustees of Cappadocia Vocational School between 2005 and 2017.

News Source: 12punto

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