Biography

He was born in Istanbul in 1968. After graduating from Boğaziçi University, Department of Industrial Engineering, he received his master’s degree in Economic Theory from Marmara University. His articles have been published in Marxist journals since 1991. He co-authored many books and translated many works of Marx and Engels into Turkish. His books published by Yordam Kitap are as follows: Teorisyeniniz Devrimciydi: 21. Yüzyılda Marksizm ve Sosyalizm (Your Theorist Was a Revolutionary: Marxism and Socialism in the 21st Century) (2012; second edition in 2021), Gençlerle Baş Başa: Yapay Zekâ (Conversations with Young People: Artificial Intelligence) (2020; second printing in 2023), Devrim Nasıl Yapılır? Dünyada Strateji Arayışları (How to Make a Revolution? Socialist Strategies in Different Countries) (2023; second printing in 2024). The English translation of his last book was published in 2025.

He was among the editors and translators of the Turkish translation of the three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital from German, which were published by Yordam Kitap in 2011-2015. His other translations into Turkish (mainly from German, a few from English), listed according to their year of first publication, are as follows: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1998), Karl Marx, The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850 (2009), Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (2009), Karl Marx, The Civil War in France (2016), Karl Marx, The French Trilogy (2016), Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, On the Gotha and Erfurt Programs (edited and translated by the author, 2017), Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (2018), Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (2019), Karl Marx, Value, Price and Profit (2019), Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question (2020), Friedrich Engels, The Role of Force in History (2020), Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany (2022), Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy (2024).


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