Based on this information, write a new short title in English: A lifetime dedicated to the Turkish Cypriot folklore and education: Mahmut İslamoğlu – BRTK

Educator, writer, poet Mahmut İslamoğlu, known for his contributions to the field of folklore, explained his studies in the field of education and culture.

Mahmut İslamoğlu, who has made great contributions to the Turkish Folklore and his education for the Turkish Folklore and his education, is one of the three founders of Turkish Maarif College…

İslamoğlu also served as the Director of the Department of Inspectorate, Youth and Culture Department of the Ministry of National Education, Culture, Youth and Sports and the Director of Tourism Department.

İslamoğlu, who made his higher education at Ankara University Department of Turkish Language and Literature, made his graduation thesis on “Cyprus’s mouth ..

It is the first work in the field of “Turkish Cypriot Folklore ğı published by İslamoğlu, who also gave many foreign diplomats special Turkish lessons.

İslamoğlu, who also participated in national and international congresses, seminars and symposiums, was awarded the title of Honorary PhD in Azerbaijan as well as many service and success awards.

İslamoğlu, who has published dozens of books in three languages: Turkish, English and Greek, is the second grade teacher of President Ersin Tatar.

Mahmut İslamoğlu explained his studies in the field of Turkish Cypriot culture, that he lived as an educator and the establishment of Turkish Maarif College to the Turkish Agency Cyprus (TAK) correspondent.

– “There is no discipline in children”

Mahmut İslamoğlu, 91, was born on March 1, 1934 in Limassol, was orphaned with his five brothers at the age of 4. Islamoglu said that he could not forget the scream of his mother, who received the news of his father’s death, and described those moments as “the most painful moment of childhood”.

Islamoğlu, who had to leave the school in the middle second grade due to the difficulties they had after his mother stayed as a single parent and worked as a tailor apprentice for several years, returned to school at the request of reading and continued his education at the American Academy in Larnaka.

İslamoğlu said that he took the rest to his mother saying, “I went to the American Academy in Larnaka. I took the exam, I was taken. We started to read, but it was very expensive. he said.

Mahmut İslamoğlu explained that they teach them every day while studying at the Academy and that they were taken to the church on Sunday evenings.

Stating that he is interested in law and literature, İslamoğlu received university education in Ankara by choosing literature. After completing his education, Islamoglu returned to BAF as a teacher in Kurtuluş High School and then started to work at the British School.

Mahmut İslamoğlu, who taught names such as President Ersin Tatar and Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu, also gave special Turkish lessons to many foreign diplomats.

İslamoğlu, who attaches great importance to discipline, said, “There was no discipline in children, there was no dissatisfaction in families. Technology made it so naughty… In the past, there was discipline… In the past, those who rule the state from the British school and the American Academy.” criticized with his words.

– Turkish Maarif College…

After the bloody Christmas attacks on the Turkish Cypriot Turkish Cypriots in 1963, İslamoğlu launched Nicosia Turkish Maarif College together with Behzat Gürsel and Hasan Nevzat for students who could not go to the British School on the Greek side. Zihni Expert said they rented the six -room house in Köşklüçiftlik. The school, whose first name was British School and named after 1974, started education with used tables and chairs brought from the houses.

Islamoglu explained those days as follows:

“We rented the mind -expert brain house. At that time the embassy was also opposite. On the way to Ledra Palas… It was a big house… Bodrum was also. Even I made the civil defense center after the basement. Then we started the school. In addition to this, we did not have a lot of education.

– The first in the field of “Turkish Cypriot Folklore”

İslamoğlu’s first book “Turkish Cypriot Folklore”, who has written dozens of books and deemed worthy of many awards, is the first research book of the first and Cypriot Turkish Turkish Cypriots in the field. İslamoğlu about the book, “I am glad I wrote that book… I saw a lot of respect because of that book… I was searched for the congresses of the Ministry of Culture in 1981. After that, I went to the congresses in Kazakhstan.” He said.

İslamoğlu, who evaluates the Turkish Folklore as the “Others’ continuation ,, said,“ It is our folklore research. ” he talked about his work and some traditions.

İslamoğlu, “There was nothing written. Tradition tradition too much… For example, the child will start primary school. 4 -year -old 4 -month 4 -day child would be started to school. If he wanted to get the last week of the school. And the ceremony was started with a ceremony. He would return, he would continue the next day. ” he said.

– Atatürk Revolutions

İslamoğlu, who also witnessed the period of Atatürk’s revolutions, said that the revolutions were enormously implemented in Cyprus. Islamoglu, “There was love, there was love of homeland. Turkish Cypriot, the Turks longed for the Turks. Century, the Ottoman Empire went here … Do you know what saved us? Religious beliefs and nationalist beliefs.” he said.

Islamoglu noted that the Turkish Cypriot mouth is pure Anatolian Turkish, after the Ottoman Empire, the Karaman Principality, fill out, would send here. Sultan II. Selim has an edict dated September 21, 1572. There he clearly writes, ‘You will send the best of every 10 households by selecting them. Property property, with his behavior… ‘he said.

İslamoğlu, who also has a book called the Turkish Cypriot Kitchen, said that he wrote this book in 30 years. Cyprus dishes and reminiscent of the Arabs as a bride to the Arabs as a bride Islamoglu, “When the girls come to visit the Molehiya plant brought. Arabs do this like soup, spoon. Cyprus Turkish, the Turkish Cypriot put it in the form of food, adding the pleasure of adding.

– “Young people should protect the values ​​of the nation they are affiliated with”

Mahmut İslamoğlu, who also wrote poetry books, said, “My poems are very beautiful, but I love some more.” He read his poem called “Where did we come from, where we came from”. Mahmut İslamoğlu, who made an analogy of his poems “like a woman with masha”, emphasized that he has caricaturized his life with poetry.

Islamoglu, while working in the ministry for a “annoying” Undersecretary, “Girne mountains deer, deer. Your horror is heavy, your head is always bent. Sometimes you are drunk, sometimes sober. He also read his poem containing his words.

“Let them protect the values ​​of the nation they are affiliated with. Let them be honest and work.” Islamoğlu, who advised, described the Turkish Cypriot people as “very harmonious, intelligent, open to innovation, understanding and civilized”.