Tahsin Aykutalp

[1] Dündar Tahsin Aykutalp was born in Istanbul in 1926 to his father Hayri Bey and mother Mevhibe Hanım, who was from the Kayi Tribe.

At the academy he is educated inder Cevat Dereli, Mustafa Halim Özyazıcı, Necmeddin Okyay, Feyzullah Dayıgil, İsmail Yümnî and Beykozlu Hüseyin Hoca.

Upon his return to Turkey he teaches for some time at the Fatih Boys College and Ahmet Rasim Middleschool.

Here he becomes one of the founders of the Traditional Turkish Handicrafts Department along with teachers such as Neşe Aybey, Nezihe Bilgetay and İslam Seçen.

[3] He died 16 December 2013 and his body was lifted in the funerary procession from the Fatih Mosque, Istanbul and buried in İstanbul-Eyüp at the Eyüp Sultan Graveyard.