Returning home, Erduran entered compulsory military service as a reserve officer, and was sent to the Turkish Brigade during the Korean War (1950–1953) to serve as an interpreter.
In 1950, he first married poet Nâzım Hikmet's stepsister Melda Kalyoncu, who gave birth to their son Murat in 1953.
[1][2][3] In June 1951, Erduran helped Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963), whom he greatly admired, to flee Turkey for Moscow, via Romania by boat on the Black Sea.
Until 2012, he wrote thirty plays, mostly in the genre of comedy and vaudeville, which were staged with success in various theaters in Turkey.
After an invitation of Abdi İpekçi, he began a career as a columnist in 1965, which continued until 1985 in various newspapers like Milliyet, Güneş, Meydan [tr] and Sabah.
[6] In 1995, he went to Bosnia and joined the special forces Black Swans in order to show his symbolic opposition to the Serbian attacks.
He was elected chair of the "Authors Committee" of the same organization's World Congress held at Helsinki, Finland in 1989.
During this period, he continued his journalist career serving as the chief of the Western America News Office of Milliyet.