Hakan Yel

Hakan Yel was born in Istanbul in 1968 and studied Archaeology and Art History at Ankara University. During his professional life, he worked as a furniture upholstery worker, wall paper application laborer, private driver, apprentice in dental prosthesis laboratories, waiter in pizzerias, machine operator in fairgrounds, restaurant manager, bar manager, product manager, and sales inspector. He currently offers training workshops to companies on sales techniques. His first book entitled Sultana Dokunmak/Touching the Sultan (2005) has been reprinted many times. The author’s second novel, Lokanta/Restaurant, a horror-suspense novel which examines the idea that the aggression and violence taking hold of society day by day will soon bring its own sense of justice; it also analyzes the resulting chaos,. The Book was met with a strong response from literary critics with its style that reflected the violence it discussed.

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