[2] Born to Turkish parents, as his father was an official in the Ottoman Empire, they emigrated to Damascus where he spent his early childhood after he lost his mother to an illness.

In 1923, Behçet was appointed as the head physician at the Hasköy Venereal Diseases Hospital at Golden Horn in Istanbul.

He translated many articles into Turkish to help educate new generations and published original case reports in international reviews in order to make contact with such far countries as Korea.

[3] He was interested in syphilis since 1922 and had published many international articles on its diagnosis, treatment, hereditary properties, serology, and social aspects.

The most important work that Behçet brought to Turkish medicine was the monograph published in 1940 called ’’Clinical and Practical Syphilis, Diagnosis and Related Dermatoses’’.

Every page of this book contains an aspect of syphilis and the footnotes provide a wealth of detailed information about the differential diagnosis of other skin diseases.

Ophthalmologists had described the ocular symptoms as iritis, which might be the result of syphilis, tuberculosis or streptococcal or staphylococcal infections.

[3] In 1930, a woman suffering from irritation in her eye and with lesions in her mouth and genital regions was referred to Behçet's clinic and told him that these symptoms had been recurring for several years.

He wrote in 1937 his ideas in the "Dermatologische Wochenschrift" and the same year he presented it at the meeting of the Dermatology Association of Paris.

The Belgian scientists Weekers and Reginster, and the Italian Frachescetti reported some patients with similar symptoms.

While that debate was taking place, some new cases were reported from Belgium, Austria, the U.S., Japan, Denmark and Switzerland.

Generally, he was a nervous man and suffered from insomnia, colitis and angina pectoris, but sometimes he was joyful and good-humored among friends.

In national and international congresses, events like "Korean-Turkish Behçet Days" take place.

In 1980, on the initiative of one of his students, a postal stamp was issued in his commemoration, about which an article was published in the Journal of the American Dental Association.

In 1996, the Turkish mint released a silver commemorative coin for Behçet during the National Dermatology Congress.