Mehmet Culum
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Mehmet Culum (born 1948) is a contemporary Turkish novelist who was born in a western town of Turkey called Çeşme. He studied political sciences at the University of Ankara. Before starting to run an antique shop in his home town he worked as an IT consultant for some time in İzmir. After retiring in 1998, he has begun to dig into the near history of Western Turkey and especially Çeşme Peninsula.
His first book AZAB AGA is published in April 2004. Culum wrote the true story of his family in this book and didn’t change the names of characters and the events, which took place in the first half of the 20th century.
The compilation of the true stories he listened to in the region of Alaçatı was the theme of his second book ALAÇATILI, published in June 2006. The tragic and blissful events roll around a lawyer of Greek origin from New York, who seeks the roots of his family in the Alaçatı, which used to be a Greek settlement for almost a hundred years.
Culum is inspired by the true stories of the Çeşme Peninsula, and
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