Upon going into cardiac arrest on Tuesday at his house, he was taken to Acıbadem Kadıköy Hospital’s intensive care unit, where he died on Wednesday.Mete worked as an editor, manager and author at Sabah, Bizim Anadolu, Tercüman, Türkiye, Yeni Haber, Orta Doğu, Yeni Şafak, Ayyıldız and the Yeni Binyıl dailies. He also contributed numerous articles to the Türk Edebiyatı, Boğaziçi and Çağrışım journals.
Mete was buried yesterday at the Çengelköy Cemetery in İstanbul, following a funeral prayer at the Marmara İlahiyat Vakfı Mosque.
Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Şahin released a statement offering his condolences over Mete’s death. “Mete, having long served our media as a journalist, also contributed to Turkish cinema by writing scripts for films and television shows. I believe Mete will live in the heart of our public through his works,” he noted.
Professor İskender Pala, author Mahir Kaynak, journalist and poet Olcay Yazıcı, author Dursun Gürlek, journalist and author Abdurrahman Şen, and journalist and author Beşir Ayvazoğlu also expressed their condolences over Mete’s death.
Highlighting that Mete is an irreplaceable artist, Pala said, “His death is a loss for Turkey.”
Stressing that Mete will live another lifetime through his works, Gürlek said he knew Mete for over 30 years and added he was a productive author.
Yazıcı, who worked with Mete at a journal of Turkish literature, said Mete created his own style by synthesizing the East and the West. Noting that Mete was also a prominent scriptwriter and an intellectual, he added: “He was not an admirer of foreign cultures like other intellectuals. He was aware of the values of the soil where he was born.”
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