Sulhi Dölek

Sulhi Dölek (20 September 1948 – 7 November 2005) was a Turkish writer, satirist, mechanical engineer and navy officer.

Sulhi Dölek was born in Istanbul on 20 September 1948. He joined the Turkish Navy and studied in the Naval Academy.^[1] For further studies, he went to the United States. He studied mechanical engineering and marine engineering at Michigan University.^[2] He resigned from the Navy in 1988 in the rank of a Commander, and continued as a writer. He died on 7 November 2005 due to a cerebral infraction.^[3]

Even before his retirement, some of his short stories were published in the satirical magazine Akbaba. He also wrote in the dailies Milliyet and Cumhuriyet.^[2]

Below are his boks:^[2]

• 1975: Korugan ("Hangar")
• 1981: Geç Başlayan Yargılama ("A Delayed Trial" )
• 1982: Kiracı ("Tenant")
• 1988: Teslim ol Küçük ("Surrender, the Little One")
• 1991: Truva Katırı (The Mule of Troy)
• 1997: Kirpi ("Hedgehog")

• 1983: Vidalar ("The Screws")
• 1994: Aynalar ("The Mirrors")

• 1983: Yergi Nükte ve Fıkralarıyla Yusuf Ziya Ortaç ("Yusuf Ziya Ortaç with his Satires Epigram and Anectodes")
• 1990: Balığın şarkısı ("The song of the Fish")
• 1990: İçimizdeki Yasakçı ("The Forbidder Inside Us")
• 1997: Habis’in Serüvenleri ("The Adventures of the Hangdog")

He also wrote a number of children's books.

• Dünya Dönüyor ("The World Rotates")
• Süper Baba ("The Super Father")
• Külyutmaz ("The Cunning")
• İkinci Bahar ("Second Spring")
• Kirpi ("The Hedgehog")