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Veysel Donbaz



A Biographic and Education Synopsis

Veysel Donbaz was born in Denizli, Turkey, on the twelfth of December 1939, the fifth child of a merchant of substance with assets and vault. After completing his primary and the secondary education, Veysel Donbaz entered the University of Ankara to pursue studies in the faculty of Letters, History, and Geography in the Department of Sumerology (1958-1962). Being the only student in the class, he was under the supervision of several professors: Prof. Dr. Kemal Balkan, Prof. Dr. Emin Bilgiç, Prof. Dr. Mebrure Tosun, and Prof. Dr. Kadriye Yalvaç in the major subject of Assyriology (Sumerian and Akkadian languages) and Prof. Drs. Tahsin Özgüç and Nimet Özgüç, Professors of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology. Prof. Dr. Sedat Alp was his teacher in Hittitology, which was among his minor subjects.


The Place of his Labours

After completing his studies at the University of Ankara in June of 1962, he was appointed in July of the same year to the İstanbul Archaeological Museums. He has continued work there ever since.

Between the years 1962 to 1968, he was the assistant for the Cuneiform Tablet Archives of İstanbul. He became the curator of the department in 1972, and he was promoted to Chief Specialist and Curator in 1978. He currently holds this position.


The Archives

The Cuneiform Tablet Archives of İstanbul is comprised of eighteen different collections in three language groups: cuneiform Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hittite. It is the second largest collection in the world, the British Museum being the first. The collection is a website for colleagues from all over the world who have studied in İstanbul on various topics (literature, economics, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, the royal correspondence of dignitaries and celebrities, instructional writings, annuals, poetry, and other subjects).

◙ Articles and Published Works by Veysel Donbaz

VEYSEL DONBAZ’IN YAYINLARI
(Sümerolog, İstanbul Arkeoloji Müseleri, Çiviyazılı Belgeler Arşivi Şefi)

I. YAYINLANMIŞ KİTAPLAR:

1. V. Donbaz, Ninurta-Tukulti-Assur Zamanına ait Orta Assur İdari Belgeleri (Türkçe-İngilizce (English), TTKY VI-Sayı 19,1976).

2. V. Donbaz - B. Foster-M. Eren, Sargonic Texts from Telloh in the İstanbul Archaeological Museums (Occasional Publications of Babylonian Fund, 5, American Research Institute in Turkey Monographs, 2- The University Museum, Philadelphia,1982).

3. V. Donbaz - A.Kirk Grayson, Royal Inscriptions of Clay Cones from Ashur, now in İstanbul (The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Supplements Volume 1, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1984).

4. V. Donbaz - N. Yoffee, Old Babyonian Texts from Kish, Conserved in the İstanbul Archaeological Museums
(Bibliotheca Mesopotamica, Volume Seventeen, Undena Publications, Malibu, 1986).

5. V. Donbaz, Keilshrifttexte in den Atiken Museen zu Stambul II (altorientalische Studien, Beiheft 2, Stuttgart, 1989).

6. V. Donbaz, Archaeology through Cartoons, (özel basım 1971).

7. V. Donbaz (Metin) - Şemsi Güner (fotograf) Kral Yolları (Dünya Basımevi, 1994).

8. V. Donbaz - M.W. Stolper, İstanbul Murasu Texts (Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut TE İstanbul 1997).

9. Liane Jakob-Rost,
Karen Radner,
Veysel Donbaz, 		  Neauassyrisch Rechtsurkunden II, Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag. Saarbrücken (2000). Im Auftragt der Deutschen Orien-Gesellschaft und des Vorderasiatischen Museums der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin Preussicher Kulturbesitts. Herausgegeben von Helmut Freydank.

10. Veysel Donbaz
and
Simo Parpola, 		  Neo-Assyrian Legal Texts in İstanbul. Studien zu den assur-Texten (StAT Band 2) herausgegeben von der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Zuzammen arbeit mit dem Vorderasiatischen Museum Berlin und den İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri. Editörler: K. Deller, V. Donbaz, F.M. Fales, H. Freydank ve St. M. Maul. (2001) in Kommission bei SDV (Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag).


II. YAYINLANMIŞ MAKALELER:

1. V. Donbaz, “Orta Asur Devrinde yazılmış kadın dokumacı lara ait bir Liste/ A List of Female Weavers,written in the Middle Assyrian Period” (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müseleri Yıllığı IAMY 15-16, 1969, 221-229).

2. V. Donbaz - “The Old Assyrian Month Name Kanwarta” (Journal of Cuneiform Studies JCS 24, No: 1-2, 1971, 24-28).

3. V. Donbaz - J. A. Brinkman, “A Cylinder Fragment of Adad-aplā-iddina” (JCS 26, No: 3, 1974, 157).

4. V. Donbaz - “Four Old Assyrian Tablets from the City of Aššur” (JCS 26, No: 2, 1974, 81-87).

5. V. Donbaz - V. Donbaz – J. A. Brinkman, “Notes Breves” (revue d’ Assyriologie RA 66, 1972).

6. V. Donbaz - J. A. Brinkman, “Nuzi Type Tidennutu- Tablet Involving real estate” (Oriens Antiqvs OA 16, 1974, 99-104).

7. V. Donbaz - E. Horasanlı, “Bursa Arkeoloji Müsesinde Bulunan KültepeTabletleri” (Belleten 41-Sayı 158, 1976, 176-183).

8. V. Donbaz - “Another Old Assyrian Tablet from the City of Aššur” (Florilegium Anatolocum, 1979, 103-106).

9. V. Donbaz - W.W. Hallo, “Monumental Texts from Pre-Sargonic Lagash” (AO 15, 1976, 2-9).

10. V. Donbaz - “Notes on an Assyrian ‘Shadow King’” (JCS 30, No: 4, 1980, 211-228).

11. V. Donbaz - F. Joannés, “Nouvelles Lectures de Textes Cappadociennes” (Memorial Atatürk, 1982, 27-41).

12. V. Donbaz - M. Kalaç, “Two Tablets from Nuzi Housed in İstanbul” (Zeitschrift für Assyriologie ZA 71, 1981, 205-210).

13. V. Donbaz - “A Middle Babylonian Legal Document Raising Problems in Kassite Chronology” (Journal of Near Eastern Studies JNES 41, 1982, 207-212).

14. V. Donbaz - “New Evidence on the Reading of the Old Assyrian Month Name Kanwarta” (Jaarbericht Ex Oriente Lux JEOL 28, 1983-1984, 2-9).

15. V. Donbaz - K.R. Veenhof, “New Evidence for Some Old Assyrian Terms” (Anatolica 12, 1985, 131-155).

16. V. Donbaz - G. Frame, “The Building Activities of Shalmaneser I in Northern Mesoptamia” (Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project ARRIM 1, 1983, 1, 5).

17. V. Donbaz - “A Kültepe Text from the Museum at Adana” (Archiv für Orientforschung AfO 31, 1984, 15-24).

18. V. Donbaz - D. Frayne, “Hammurabi and the Wall of Cloister” (ARRIM 2, 1984, 27-30).

19. V. Donbaz - H. Galter, “Zwei Inschriften Sanheribs im Istanbuler Museum” (ARRIM 3, 1985, 3-8).

20. V. Donbaz - J.A. Brinkman, “Two Middle Assyrian Texts from Assur” (ZA 75, 1985, 78-86).

21. V. Donbaz - “Publication of the Kültepe Tablets Housed in Ankara” (Keilschriftliche Literaturen 1985, 149-153).

22. V. Donbaz - “Two Documents from the Diverse Collections in İstanbul” (In Honour of Ernest R. Lecheman on His Seventy fifth Birthday, 1986, 69-75).

23. V. Donbaz - “More Old Assyrian Tablets from Aššur” (Akkadica 42, 1985, 1-23).

24. V. Donbaz - K. Deller, “Sanheribs Zababa-Temple in Aššur” (Baghdader Mitteilungen BM Band 18, 1987, 221-228).

25. V. Donbaz - “Deux Nouvellas Inscriptions de Nabonide Roi de Babylone” Anatolia Antiqua (Eski Anadolu 1987, 15-21).

26. V. Donbaz - H. Hirsch, “Interpretationsversuche I KTS 4b” (AfO 32, 82-88).

27. V. Donbaz - “Some Neo-Assyrian Contracts from Girnavaz and Vicinity” (State Archives of Assyrian Bulletin, SAAB 2/1, 1988, 2-30).

28. V. Donbaz - “Complementary Data on Some Assyrian Terms” (JCS 40 No. 1, 1988, 69-80).

29. V. Donbaz, “The Business of Ašēd, an Anatolian Merchant” (AfO 35, 1988, 48-63).

30. V. Donbaz - “B.Kienast’ın Das altassyrische Kaufvertraftsrecht 1984 baskılı kitabının tenkidi” (AfO 35, 1988, 190-191).

31. V. Donbaz - “Old Assyrian Terms for Bread (akalu, kirrum)” (A. Sjöberg Festschrift/dumu.é.dub.ba.a, 1989, 91-97).

32. V. Donbaz - “Some Remarkable Contracts of I-B Period Kültepe Texts I” (T. Öz-güç’e Armağan-Anatolia and the Ancient Near East, Studies of Tahsin Özgüç, Ankara 1989, 76-102).

33. V. Donbaz, “Fragments of the Annals of Tiglath-pileser I” (ARRIM 8, 1990, 2-3).

34. V. Donbaz - “Two Neo-Assyrian Stelae in the Antakya and Kahramanmaraş Museums” (ARRIM 8, 1990, 4-24).

35. V. Donbaz - “The Date of the Eponym Nabû-bēla-usur” (Mélanges Paul Garelli, 1992, 1-6).

36. V. Donbaz - “A Small Archive of Innāya -an Assyrian Merchant” (RA 85, 1991, 101-107).

37. V. Donbaz - “I-B Tabletlerine Genel Bakış” (X. Türk Tarih Kurumu Kongresi TTKK cilt II, 1990, 433-451).

38. V. Donbaz - “A Brick Inscription of Nabonidus from Harran” (ARRIM 9, 1991, 11-12).

39. V. Donbaz - H. Sauren, “Ni.2553+2565, A Missing Link of the Hammurabi Law Code” (Orientalia Lovaniensa Periodica 22, 1991, 5-28).

40. V. Donbaz - A. Harrak, “The Middle Assyrian Eponym of Kidin-Aššur” (JCS 41/2, 1989, 217-225).

41. V. Donbaz - “The ‘House of Kings’ in the city of Aššur” (Sedat Alp’a Armağan/Festschrift für Sedat Alp – Hittite and Other Anatolian and Near Eastern Studies in Honour of Sedat Alp, Ankara, 1992, 119-125).

42. V. Donbaz - “Some Remarkable Contracts of I-B Period Kültepe Tablets II” (Nimet Özgüç’e Armağan, Aspects of Art and Iconography: Anatolia and its Neighbours, Studies in Honor of Nimet Özgüç, Ankara, 1993, 132-154, Plts. 26-29.

43. V. Donbaz - “Some Observations on the Treaty Documents of Qadesh” (Istanbuler Mitteilungen Band 43, 1993, 27-37, Tafeln 3-5).

44. V. Donbaz - “New Attestation of Artexerxes I 39th Regnal Year” (Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitairs N.A.B.U. 1987, 2).

45. V. Donbaz - “kīšum, a designation of gold and amūtum (KÙ. AN)” (N.A.B.U. 1988-4).

46. V. Donbaz - “An unusual Chagar-Bazar Tablet Excavated at Aššur” (N.A.B.U. 1989-3).

47. V. Donbaz - A. Harrak, “The Question of the Marasū-Texts dated at Susa” (N.A.B.U. 1989/4-86).

48. V. Donbaz - “One Murasū Document from Lagash” (N.A.B.U. 1989/4-87).

49. V. Donbaz - “New Evidence for the Expression mērū’a attunū” (N.A.B.U. 1991/1-10)

50. V. Donbaz - “One Old Assyrian Inventory List” (N.A.B.U. 1990/4-130).

51. V. Donbaz - “Old Assyrian idīnum” (N.A.B.U. 1992/1-9).

52. V. Donbaz - “A Note on Self-sale Contract” (N.A.B.U. 1992/3-93).

53. V. Donbaz - “Writing of SUEN in OA” (N.A.B.U. 1993/1-5).

54. V. Donbaz - “About the reading PN Ilī-ālum” (N.A.B.U. 1993/1-6).

55. V. Donbaz - Matthew W. Stolper, “Gleanings from Murasû-Texts in the Collections of the İstanbul Archaeological Museums” (N.A.B.U. 1993/4-102).

56. V. Donbaz - “Chez les marchands assyriens d’anatolie” (Les hittites: Civilisation indo-européenne à fleur de roche, Dijon, Editions Faton, 1994, 20-25).

57. V. Donbaz - “Anadolu’nun en eski ulaşım ağı: Kral Yolları” (ATLAS 18, 20-34).

The following is a continuation of the same list, also continuing the same enumeration, but employing a different format:

  1. Ankara Kültepe Tabletleri/Ankaraner Kültepe Tafeln (review) TTK VI. Dizi-Sa. 33, 1990 (Anadolu Araştırmaları XIII, 1994).

  2. Review of I Trattati Nel Mondo Antico, Forma, İdeologia, Funzione (Instituto Gramsci, Seminario di Antihistica 1990)-Archivum Anatolicum/Anadolu Arşivleri sayı 1, 1995, 175-180).

  3. Old Assyrian Texts in Anatolia: The Archaeology of Anatolia, an Encyclopedia. (Currently published, North Carolina).

  4. Old Assyrian Influence on the Hittite Onomasticon and Toponyms (Anadolu Araştir-malari XIV, Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi İstanbul-1996, 229-241).

  5. Kültepe Tabletleri Işığında İ.Ö.2000-1760 Yıllarında Anadolu’nun Sosyal Yapısı (Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi Konferansları 1995, 177-196).

  6. Veysel Donbaz – Matthew M. Stolper, Gleanings from Murasû Texts in the Collections of the İstanbul Archaeological Museums (NABU 1993/4-102).

  7. Veysel Donbaz, Süleyman Özkan, Ödemiş Arkeoloji Müzesinde Bulunan İki Yazitlı İnşaat Tuğlası ve bir kabartma parçası/Two Inscribed Bricks and a Relief Fragment at Ödemiş Archaeological Museum (Belleten C,LVIII, 1994, Sayı 223, TTK 1995, 553-563 with three plates).

  8. Niau (nû/nûm/nitu,nua’u/nuwau in OA (NABU 1995/4-113).

  9. The NA Eponym sarru-mītu-uballit (NABU 1995/4-114).

  10. A Median (?) Votive Inscription on a Silver Vessel (NABU 1996/2-43).

  11. Johannes Koch – Veysel Donbaz, Ein Astrolab der Dritten Generation: Nv 10 (JCS 47, 1995, 63-84).

  12. An Inscribed Dagger Blade from Lagash (NABU 1997/2-52).

  13. Remainder, to the Author of “An Old Assyrian Marriage Contract” ([?] NABU 1997/3-106). [The terms “remainder” and “ANABU” and the plural “Contracts” were possibly errors in the original list entry.]

  14. A Late Babylonian Text from Assur (NABU 1998/1-9).

  15. Once again Fi.16 (+Samaria 1825) (NABU 1998/1-22).

  16. One Old Babylonian Text in the Vicinity of Nusaybin (NABU 1999/3-58).

  17. One Neo-Assyrian Text from Kasane Höyük (NABU 1999/4-84).

  18. Obituary: Dr. Galip çağırgan (1941-1990) (Anadolu Araştırmları XIII-İstanbul, 1994, 265).

  19. Veysel Donbaz – Hannes D. Galter, Assurnasirpal II und die Subnatquelle (MDOG 129, Berlin 1997, 173-186).

  20. Eski Anadolu Koloni çağında Anadolu Ticaret Hayatı/Business Life in Anatolia during the Early Anatolian Trade Colony Period (PALMET 1997, 57-88).

  21. Bābu-aha-iddina’s Archive in Istanbul (Archivum Anatolicum 3, Ankara, 1997, 101-109).

  22. Mezopotamya’daki Hastalık Belirtileri (History of Medicine Studies No.6 1997, 97-100).

  23. Inscribed Spear Heads and Some Tablets at the Gaziantepe Archaeological Museum (Altorientalische Forschungen 25/1998-1, 173-185).

  24. Veysel Donbaz-Gernot Wilhelm, Eine Stele des urartäischen König Minua für die Gotheit Sebitu (Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians 8, 1996, 269-272).

  25. Assur Collection Housed in İstanbul: General Outlines (Acts of the IIIrd International Congress of Hittitology, Ankara 1998, 177-188).

  26. Tablets from the Palace of Warsuma (XXXIV, Uluslararası Assiriyoloji Kongresi/XXXIVeme Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, TTK 1999, 413-419).

  27. Mezopotamya ve Anadolu’da Eski Tıp (III. Türk Tıp Kongresi, İstanbul 20-23 Eylül 1993, TTK 1999, 319-336).

  28. Review of: Ankara Kültepe Tabletleri II, VI, Dizi-Sa.33.(TTK 1995 Anadolu Araştırmaları XV, Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, İstanbul 1999, 475-482).

  29. One 1-B Kültepe Text Concerning Onions (Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient Band 18. “Landwirtschaft im Alten Orient” (Dietrich Reime Verlag, Berlin, 1999, 150-153).

  30. Some Selected Neo-Assyrian Texts from İstanbul and Elsewhere (State Archives of Assyria Bulletin Volume XII, Issue 2 , 1998, 64-88).

  31. Mahar patrim sa Assur, A New Interpretation (Publications de l’Institut historique-archéologique néerlandis de Stamboul (PIHANS Festschrift für Prof. Dr. K.R. Veenhof).

  32. V. Donbaz, “A Middle Assyrian Private Letter”, Studi Sul Vicino Oriente Antico, dedicati alla memoria di Luigi Cagni-Istituto Universitario Orientale Dipartimento di Studi Astiatici. Series Minor LVI (Napoli, 2000), 237-241.

  33. J.G. Dercksen-V. Donbaz, “Merchants in Distress-An Old Assyrian Text Mentioning habbātu”, Jaarbericht Ex Oriente Lux. JEOL No.35-36 (1997- 2000), 103-110.

  34. V. Donbaz, “Some recently Discovered kārum 1-b Tablets and Related Observations”, Akten des IV Internationalen Kongresses für Hethitologie- StBoT 45, Harrasowitz Verlag (2001), 106-114.

  35. V. Donbaz, “Ninive Koleksiyonunda Bulunan Astronomi ile İlgili Üç Tablet”, İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri Yıllığı IAMY 17 (2001), 251-269.

  36. V. Donbaz, “Some Late Babylonian Text Gleaned from the Assur Collection”, Historiography in the Cuneiform World-Proceedings of the XLVe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (eds.) Tzvi Abusch, Paul-Alain Beaulieu, John Hueh Nergard, Peter Machinist, Piotr Steinkeller. CDL Press, Bethesda, Maryland (2001), 163-179.

  37. V. Donbaz, “Yazılı Belgeler Işığında Mezoptamya ve Anadolu’da Tıp / Medicine in Mesopotamia and Anatolia in Light of Written Documents”, 38. Uluslararasi Tıp Tarihi Kongresi-İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri Geçmişten Günümüze Tıp Sergisi (2002), 22-37.

  38. V. Donbaz, “The Eponymy of Urad-Šerūa son of Aššur-bāni”, NABU 2001/3-55.

  39. V. Donbaz, “Inventory No. 1439”, NABU 2001/3-56.

  40. V. Donbaz, “More heat on A.21826” (OIP XXVII No.1) NABU 2001/3-57.

  41. V. Donbaz, “lamniš ula ezibši”, Festschrift für Burkhart Kienast AOAT Band 274 (Ugarit-Verlag Münster 2003), 45-50.

  42. V. Donbaz, “Some Remarkable Contracts of 1-B Period Kültepe Tablets III. Hethitologische Studien zum Gedanken an Emil Orgetorix Forrer” Dresner Beiträge zur Hethitologie (2003), 271-284.

  43. V. Donbaz, “One Neo-Assyrian Text of Unknown Provenance”, N.A.B.U (2003)

  44. V. Donbaz, “Çiviyazılı Kaynaklar Işığında At/ Horses in Written Sources” Partnership of Power Man and Horse (2003), 17-19 and 101.

  45. V. Donbaz, “Two Brick Inscriptions Belonging to Sennacherib, the Assyrian King” N.A.B.U (2003/4-107)

Articles in print:

  1. “Some Selected Middle Assyrian Private Letters”, In Honor of - A.K. Grayson (Toronto, in print)

  2. “One Old Assyrian Treaty from Kültepe”, Journal of Cuneiform - Studies JCS (in print)

  3. “Some Old Assyrian Texts with Rare Terminology” (Festschrift M. Trolle Larsen, in print)

Most Recently Published Book:

Veysel Donbaz, Sadberk Hanım Müsesinde Bulunan ÇİVİYAZILI BELGELER/Cuneiform Texts in the Sadberk Hanım Museum (Ege Yayınları 1999), ca. 200 pages.


Scholarly Contributions and Lectures

A prominent scholar, Veysel Donbaz has been an international participant in these disciplines and an invited lecturer for many departments and institutions abroad. His more than sixty such journeys have included the United States (The Oriental Institute of Chicago, University Museum of Philadelphia, Babylonian Collection New Haven, and Cambridge Boston); British Museum, London; Louvre, Paris; Toronto, Canada; Rome, Italy; the Belgian Leuven: Leiden Gronigen, Netherlands; in Germany (München, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Heidelberg); and Zurich, Switzerland. In these and other places he has either studied tablets, delivered lectures, or read papers.


Reading Papers (with Associated Scholarly Involvement)

He read papers at the International Assyriological Congresses held every year in one of the international centres: Münster, 1985; İstanbul, 1987 (he was the Secretary General of İstanbul Roncontre Assyriologique Internationale [RAI]); Berlin, 1994; Helsinki (Assyria 95), 1995; Boston, 1998; Tübingen (First International Middle Assyrian Semposium), 1994; Berlin (Second International Middle Assyrian Workshop), 1996; Berlin (International Babylon Symposium) 1997; Corum, Turkey (Third International Hittitology Congress), 1996; Würzburg (Fourth International Congress of Hittitology, where he chaired sessions on a number of occasions along with reading papers); Heidelberg 1992; Berlin, 1996; Venice, 1997; Berlin, 1997; Boston, 1998; Würzburg, 1999.

He has also delivered scholarly papers at the Turkish Historical Association (Xth, XIIth, and XIIIth).

In Turkey, he has delivered about twenty five lectures: Robert College-Boğaziçi University; Middle East Technical University at Ankara; French Archaeological Institute İstanbul, İstanbul Archaeological Museums, and other places.


International Projects and Memberships

  1. Editorial Board Member for “The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project” since 1980 at Toronto. Still active.


  2. Permanent Advisory Committee Member for “The State Archive of Assyria Project” at Helsinki, 1988. Still active.


  3. Editorial Board Member (Herausgeber) for “Studien zu den Assur Texten” at Berlin, 1995. Still active.


  4. Member of “Deutsche Archaeological Institute” Berlin, 1994, and continuing


  5. Member of “Deutsche Orient Forschung” 1995, and continuing


  6. Secretary General of “Kültepe Publishing Committee” at Ankara, 1983, and still active.


  7. Member of “Institute of Archaeology” at İstanbul 1993-


  8. Member of “Museums’ Friends Association” İstanbul 1971-


  9. Member of “Hagia Sophia’s Friends Association” 1996-
    10.


Avocations and Personal Interests

Veysel Donbaz is a painter in watercolors. Thus far, he has had four exhibitions, 1983, 1984, 1996, and 1997.

He is a member of “Association of Cartoonists” İstanbul since 1971. He is also a member of “Turing Automobile Club” (1971-).

Beginning in 1970, he has also contributed a series of articles (ca. 200 articles in popular aspect) for leading newspapers in İstanbul as well as journals.

He is frequently interviewed by newspapers, journals, and television.


Most of his communication is in three languages:

Besides Turkish, Veysel Donbaz speaks English and German fluently, using English for scientific purposes. Nearly all of his works are published in English (90%), with the remainder in German (7%), and French (3%).


Concerning his family:

His gracious wife is a German diplomat.
He has two adult children.
Oh yes! And he is a granddaddy. He has one grandson and one granddaughter.


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