Pelin Batu (born 27 December 1978) is a Turkish author, actress, historian, and television personality.

Biography

Pelin Batu is born on the 27th of December 1978 to İnal Batu and an

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mother. Due to her father İnal Batu's career as a diplomat, she spent her childhood in many foreign countries including

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and the USA. She completed high school at Marymount School in

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and pursued musical and theatre training at

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. After starting literature and philosophy at

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, she switched her subject to history and completed it at

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. She made her film debut in 1999, portraying the role of Circassian Nevres in ''Harem Suare'' and has gone on to act with several more films and TV series. Batu also co-hosted a show titled ''Tarihin Arka Odası'' (The Back Room of History) which aired on

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with Murat Bardakçı and Erhan Afyoncu. Interested in poetry from a young age, she has written, translated, and published many poems. Her first book of poetry "Glass" was published in 2003, followed by "The Book of Winds" in 2009. She left the program in 2011. She has also appeared on the Turkish TV program ''Yeni Şeyler Söylemek Lazım'', a part of the TRT

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news channel on 25 December 2010, in which she read her poem of "Wind of Black Stones" herself from her book. Having written poems from the age of eight, on this program she said that even though she is an atheist, if reincarnation existed she would be the reincarnation of the grandfather, Selahattin Batu, as he was also known for his interest in poetry and whom she is commonly compared to. Batu was also a columnist for the daily ''

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'' newspaper (2012–2014).

Filmography

Bibliography

* ''Glass / Cam'', 113pp, 2003, Yapı Kredi, * ''Yahudilik Tarihi'', 304pp, 2007, Yapı Kredi, * ''The Book of Winds Rüzgarlar Kitabı'', 224pp, 2009, Artshop, * ''Resim Defteri'', 48pp, 2013, Artshop, * ''Her Şey Bir Hikaye İle Başladı'', 2018, İnkılâp Kitabevi, * ''Labirentin'', 2018, İnkılâp Kitabevi,

References

External links

* * Short BBC documentary on the

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in Istanbul hosted by Pelin Bat

1978 births 20th-century Turkish actresses 21st-century Turkish actresses Living people Turkish film actresses Turkish writers Turkish television actresses Turkish television personalities Boğaziçi University alumni Turkish people of Circassian descent Turkish people of Albanian descent Turkish former Sunni Muslims Turkish atheism activists Actresses from Ankara {{turkey-actor-stub