Ömer Faruk Birpınar
Ömer Faruk Birpinar
Born in 1975 in Konya, he is a journalist, translator and screenwriter. He studied Arabic Language and Literature at Istanbul University. He worked as the Chief of Foreign News at IHA. He translated Bernard Lewis' Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire, Tom Segev's Elvis in Jerusalem, Bartolome de Las Casas' Indian Massacre and Proctor's Cancer Wars into Turkish.
He also contributed to the New Encyclopedia of Turks, Common Turkish History and Atlas of Turkish Music with his translations. In the field of screenplays, he worked as a screenwriter for the movie Sözün Bittiği Yer and as a script consultant for the movie Kervan 1915.