Cemal Yildiz
He was born on May 21, 1949 in Düzce / Beslambey Village (now Akınlar neighborhood). His father, the late Kemal (known as Sarı Kemal), was transferred to Eskişehir (1950) because he was a police officer, and his mother, Memnune Hanım (deceased), the daughter of the late Chief Inspector Hacı Ömer Uz, was a housewife. His parents settled in this beautiful city when the author was one year old. The author, who completed his secondary education in this city, continued his education as an air non-commissioned officer candidate, emulating the aviators of this city, also known as the city of aviators. 1967 Hv. Tek. Ok. He graduated from the Air Defense School. As an air non-commissioned officer, he was first assigned to Şarkışla, the place of minstrelsy. Here, he got to know Âşık Veysel and Âşık Ali İzzet personally, met them and had conversations with them. The author continued his duty in Ankara, Erzurum and Izmir. He also studied undergraduate studies in the Federal Republic of Germany and served in the German Air Force for a year. He retired in 1995 after thirty-five years of nominal service as a senior chief master sergeant of the air force. As the elder brother, he has two siblings. Caner, who passed away in 2022, one of his brothers, served as the District Governor of Çarşamba and finally as the Deputy Governor of Muğla. His younger brother Haluk is engaged in trade in Bodrum/Turgutreis.
He resides in Izmir and Eskişehir, two cities he loves very much. He has recently expressed his poems in the free air of these cities. He is married to his wife Yücel, a retired nurse, and has a daughter Hülya, who works as a responsible officer in Izmir Metropolitan Data Processing Department, and is married to Mehmet Çelik, an air quartermaster, a chief master sergeant of the air force. His son, Dr. Türkay, works at Izmir Institute of Technology. The author has two grandsons, Kaan and Hakan.
The poems in his first book were mostly written in these cities. His ancestors escaped the Russian atrocities and settled in Düzce from the Sochi region of the Caucasus with the Great Circassian migration of 1864 (from the Ubykhs).
