Ahmet Emin YALMAN 1888-1972

He is a Turkish journalist and author.

He was born in Thessaloniki in 1888. He graduated from the German High School in 1907. In the same year, while he was a student at İstanbul Faculty of Law, he took his first step into journalism by starting to work for Sabah newspaper. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1910 and went to the United States, where he earned a doctorate in Journalism and Philosophy at Columbia University in New York. This study, which is the first doctoral thesis on the Turkish press, was published under the name of "The Development of Modern Türkiye as Measured by its Press".
He returned to the country in 1914 and worked as a sociology assistant with Ziya Gökalp at İstanbul University.

Between 1916 and 1920, he taught at the Faculty of Political Sciences. In 1917 he published the newspaper Vakit and in 1923 the newspaper Vatan. In 1936, he bought the Tan newspaper and ran it for a while.

Ahmet Emin Yalman was the target of an assassination attempt in 1952 and was seriously injured. He was awarded the Great Courage Award by the University of California and Georgia in the USA. In 1961, he tried to publish the newspaper Hür Vatan for a while. After 1961, he wrote columns in various newspapers.
In 1967, he received the State Prize for Culture.

In the last years of his life, he collected his memories in a book and published them under the name of "What I Have Seen and Experienced in Recent History". He died in İstanbul on December 19, 1972.