He was a good friend of Emin Çölaşan, with whom he had worked in the newspaper Hürriyet before they were controversially sacked by the paper's editor-in-chief, Ertuğrul Özkök.
Bekir Coşkun was born in the Turkmen village of Tülmen[citation needed] in Şanlıurfa in the southeastern Anatolia region of the country.
[1] In an article written some weeks before the July 2007 General Elections, he described AK Party supporters as "men who scratch their belly" (Turkish: göbeğini kaşıyan adamlar).
The chubby Pasha boasts about his comfortable life in the hut, but says that one must accept to wear a leash and obey their owner in return for the bones and cushions.
[9] Bekir Coşkun, interrupted his articles due to cancer treatment in October 2017, has been meeting with his readers from his column in Sözcü newspaper since then, as long as his health allowed him.