Turgut Uyar was born in
Ankara on 4 August 1927 as the fifth of the six children of Fatma Hanım and Hayri Bey. His father served as a
squadron leader in the
Ottoman Army and his mother was a housewife. He attended primary school in different cities in Turkey. Then he went to
military high school in
Bursa. He married Yezdan Şener when he was going to university and he had three children, Semiramis, Tunga and Şeyda, from this marriage. He served as a personnel officer in
Posof,
Terme and Ankara. He published articles in the
Forum magazine in the 1950s. He resigned from office in 1958 and divorced his wife in 1966. After moving to Istanbul, he married
Tomris Uyar in 1969. He died on 22 August 1985 from
cirrhosis. ==References==