Fahrettin Çiloğlu (born October 5, 1956, Ünye, Ordu Province, Turkey), is a Turkish writer and translator, whose family emigrated from Georgia in the late nineteenth century.
[2] Of Georgian ancestry, Çiloğlu studied journalism in Istanbul, and worked for many years as an editor specializing in encyclopedias and as a director of publications.
[5][6][7] A writer in both Turkish and Georgian, Çiloğlu has most recently published a new book of short stories titled სანამ თოვს ("While It Is Snowing") in Tbilisi (2012).
In order to introduce Georgian letters in Turkey, Fahrettin Çiloğlu adapted the book Deda Ena / დედა ენა ("Mother Tongue") by Iakob Gogebashvili —the founder of scientific pedagogy in Georgia— for the benefit of Turkish speakers.
[12] Çiloğlu is also one of the authors of the book Contrasts and Solutions in the Caucasus edited by Ole Høiris and Sefa Martin Yürükel in 1998.