Writings

This section shares some of my writings published in the past fifteen years. These have been published by BATAS’s Turkish Area Studies Review, the International Dendrological Society and Prospect. The articles currently posted, underlined, are:

General

How the terrorists’ tentacles spread.
The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight, by Cathy Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy, book review, June 2017.
Uneasy quiet on the Eastern front - Lesvos, two years later - on the refugee beaches, September 2017.

Memoirs

Vagabond and exile, John Freely, 1926-2017.
Kadri Kayabal, 1921-1979, (2024). (updating)
Metin Münir, 1944-2023. (updating)

Trees and tree people

Erozyon Dede - Hayrettin Karaca, 2012 (updating)
With - unofficially - the IDS in Antarctica, 2012 (updating)
The Karaca Arboretum, Saman Köyü, Yalova, Turkey, 2013 (updating)
With the IDS in Sri Lanka, 2014
With the IDS in Kenya, 2015 (updating)
Riccardo Disperati, 1946-2018 (updating)
Nihat Gökyiğit, 1995-2023 (updating)

Writings

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