Teacher Tributes on Teaching, Research Sources ~ Press
&
Message Extracts -Tributes to the, late, Hailed Teacher of Teachers
Orhan Seyfi Ari
(1918-1992)
Teaching & teacher tributes, social, education, teaching research sources on teacher, columnist, poet, thinker, Turkish Cypriot educator, cultural-educational reformer Orhan Seyfi Ari
-extracts (non-English are from Turkish & Greek) from some teaching tributes & press references to the Teacher of Teachers, his teaching, popularity
~memorial to a country boy interested in teaching who captured the hearts & minds of pupils & people -they rhymed poetry & named streets after him.
Minister of Education KKTC -Eşber Serakıncı about teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari -letter 18 December 1992
Teacher of teachers
Rahme Çiftçioğlu (KTGB's World Press Freedom Day Special Award 2011), 'Orhan Seyfi Arı' in Kıbrıs 11 December 2011 (†)
Students he raised ... remembered him in the four corners of the world as “Orhan Seyfi Ari, the teacher of teachers.”
President, Australian Cyprus Turkish & Islamic Cultural Association [Avusturalya Kıbrıs Türk & İslam Cemiyeti]-Hasan Dellal -letter 16 February 1992
Cevdet Başaran, US Foreign Broadcast Information Service FBIS [retired], founder first Turkish Cypriot private school, author
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email 21 January 2001
Having closely followed Orhan Seyfi Ari's activities, to have known him, greatly honors me
The University of London Institute of Advanced Study, Institute of Commonwealth Studies archived information on teacher Ari
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fax 13 June 1997
Orhan Seyfi Ari will be added to our library
Prof. Dr. Salih Karaali, (Istanbul University [Dept. of Astronomy & Space Sciences], Turkey) -letter 8 February 1993
Condolences to the Turkish Community
Dr. Hüsnü Feridun, Formerly Repupublic of Cyprus Director of Turkish Cypriot Education & Director UNESCO D2 & Cultural-Educational Adviser to President Turkish Republic of
Northern Cyprus ~ Remebrance on Teachers Day of teacher orhan Seyfi Ari (Facebook [Engin Ari's wall] 25 November 2011)
... Dear Orhan Seyfi Ari, in remembrance of him may God bless his soul, a dedicated colleague...
and on Ada Television, "Hasan Hastürer ile Son Nokta' interview on Teachers Day, 24 November 2011
& in Kıbrıs-Star, 'Öğrenciler Artık Daha Az Şey Biliyor' [Pupils Nowadays Know Less], News 26 November 2011
... Teachers like Orhan Seyfi Ari (...) knew each & every pupil's family ...
Hasan Yücelen in ['The 100 Years of Struggle for Existence of the Turks of Loudrijina/Akincilar -A Documentation of Heroism']
Ak
Mr. Orhan's such services (to Loudrijina)...
(inscribed) With debt of gratitude for services & in remembrance of Orhan Ari, the educational sun that has never set on Akincilar .
Dr. Slight, Director Cyprus Youth Rehabilitation Center, Principal Morphou Teacher Training College & Cyprus Rural Agricultural School, 1940
'There's (teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari's) sweat in establishing the (Cyprus) Rural Agricultural School'
Ali Nesim (
Centre for Cyprus Studies [Eastern Mediterranean University]) Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi, e-mail, 10 July 2009
The section in my book [Our Forever Shining Suns on Education] Batmayan Eğitim Güneşlerimiz (**) on teacher Ari is the part most used by researchers
Χαριλαος Ι Κιτρομηλιδης (Charilaos Kitromilides), author, formerly Member Cyprus High Commission UK, sometime speaker in association with
Pelopobissian Association
& Ionian Society Barnet Civic Award, on teacher Ari, in ['Images from my Life'] Аναμνησεις Аπο Τη Ζωη Μου
(***)
He was a sagacious, extraordinary, most highly respected, man.
Award by School & Parents Association Haydarpaşa …
For unforgettable services rendered to education
Doğrudan: [Soldiering or Schooling? (Whether measure of competent teaching & teacher)] -'Alaylı mı, Mektepli mi?'- Mustafa Doğrusoz in Kıbrıs, 5 February 1999
Orhan Seyfi Ari was one of the greatest teachers of our time
He did not become a teacher, he was born a teacher.
...his mark on this nation's history of education can't be belittled...
Sometimes a great school is a man, sometimes a man is himself a great school.
Turkish Cypriot Secondary School Teachers Syndicate
(on passing of teacher Orhan Ari)
-Halkın Sesi, 19 December 1992
Condolences to our teachers
Akay Cemal, Editorial ('Görüş'), in Halkın Sesi -27 December 1992
The defence
(in his newspaper columns)
was vigorous and fearless of (our) freedoms and liberty, of teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari
~ and… in Kıbrıs, 'Halkı, Milli Değerlerden Soğutma bir Politika' [Politics of Distancing from Nation's Values], 21 May 2008
On the occasion of Youth Day celebrations lists teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari among those whose struggles have enabled the survival
of the society's values and achievements and the later achievements through, and to a great extent with share
in the achievements also of, those who they raised, to be remembered with respect.
~ and... 'İyi ki 23 Kasımı Görmediler' [Good, They didn't Live 23 November], (on Teachers Day teacher pay disputes) (Kıbrıs) 25 November 2009
Quoting from teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari on teaching success's rewards on occasion of Cyprus-
TRNC
's Teachers' Day
hails the contribution of the efforts of such in education in the founding later in Cyprus-
KKTC
of universities
~ and... 'Fedakâr Öğretmenler Olmasaydı...' [Were it Not for Their Sacrifices...] (re. Teachers Day) (Kıbrıs) 25 November 2010
Quotes from teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari on teaching remembering him among teachers considered in the forefront of struggles
enabling their enlightened liberty
Mehmet Moreket: 'O benim babam...' ['He was my father'], Havadis 17 December 2011
regrads the strugles and scarifices of then to have enabled from nothing the Cypriots' culture and education
'Altın Çerçeve' [Gold Frame] in Halkın Sesi Supplement, 9 May 2004 -Levent Tezel (interview -old trades: Master Shoemaker Süleyman)
"
(
on disputed formal apprenticeship contract)
T
his teacher Orhan Ari intervened, 'I'll be guarantor for both of you';
and I completed my apprenticeship -learned my trade properly."
Universal Unity Party , General Secretariat -Birlik, 19 December 1992
Salih Coşar, Deputy Prime Minister, Leader -Democrat Party, previous Minister of Finance &
I am saddened by the death of the venerable (teacher Orhan Ari)
Olgun Paşalar, Member of Parliament,
I am in grief over the loss of teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari
Among the awards presented to teacher Orhan Ari, the
For Services to Education
Another by the Ministry of Culture & Education KKTC reads
Guneş Doğarken [Sunrise]: 'Cumhurbaşkanımız M A Talat'ı Dinlerken' [As we Listen to President Talat], (on destruction of ethnic properties-heritage) -S Mehmet Ersoy in Hüryıldız 23 December
At secondary school (in Paphos) our teacher the late Orhan Seyfi Ari used to take us to religious worship in them every week
Daşcı [Rebuker]: 'O bir Ögretmen' [A Teacher] (on standards in teaching & education) -Ömer Mehmet, in Birleşik Kıbrıs 19 September 2003
~ and... in [Also Die Kings] Krallar da Ölür (****)
"Look what our teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari has said
(quote in a remembrance notice from the teachers of teachers on teaching, teachers, on his teaching career -upon retiring from teaching)
'...my spiritual reward.. my beloved 'children' -my pupils.. achieved success...'...
Monumental (educational) deeds, do, most certainly, justify greatest pride"
Oğuz Metiner [Sohbet] -in Birlik, 29 January 1993
On the teacher of teachers Ari, his teaching, in verse 'Bir Yıldız Kaydi' [in Turkish]
A Star's Passed Away
Passed away from amongst us a star-true,
In the last days of nineteen-ninety-two,
Inspiring all around his deeds of illumination,
Speedily as he moved on to his destination;
And to our senses having he brought us,
We, quietly, buried him in our hearts.
Well known and versed, none other was he
Than the pilgrim, The Teacher: Orhan Ari
His concern -so sincere!
Greatly respected everywhere!
Years spent to illuminate!
More: hearts, his sultanate!
With his pupils was spent half his lifetime at schools
And at places of worship the other with the faithfuls,
As built his honesty a throne, in every heart, that rules!
Revealed was his departure-shortly for the here-after
For, late-before, he had told his friends-closer
It was time he would meet his maker.
It did not take long.. he attained his ultimate desire;
And, having left his worldly possessions to his near and dear,
He settled on the throne of omniscience in the world after here
.
Lie in radiance, in paradise you rest!
The exalted prophet himself to intercede for you -the best!
Rejoice his grand soul, with God's best graces blest!
President Rauf Denktaş, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus -letter 18 December 1992
Hakkı Atun, Leader Cyprus
Those by him taught have made, both, the state and the nation proud. We shall always remember him with respect and love...
Harid Fedai, 'Bu Dünyadan Seyfi Geçti' [A 'Seyfi' (='a sword of' / defender ) has left the World],
on teacher Ari's death,
in Halkın Sesi, 27 December 1992
Such nice things I had heard of him!..
Efforts in education, help to schools and students…
Later, also on youth morality I would hear his praises -from the highest of religious offices.
Gladdens his soul, I hope, this quatrain...
Aware was not I; unbeknown, harmony was you all through
Under skins, treasured forever by thoughts innermost too
Seeking of you insight the wonders of the universe into
I knew, at last, this, that the universe was you
~
Internet Adviser magazine -'Best Sites: Teacher of Teachers' [on teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari], July 2001
Read.. the life of this extraordinary.. poet and thinker
~
(Teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari's teaching were in the British Colony of Cyprus at Morphou Teacher Training College's Rural Agricultural School, headteacher Arodez elementary, headmaster Paphos secondary,
Loudrijina secondary [in both also teching Modern Greek and English Language], in Nicosia at English School [also as housemaster], in the Republic of Cyprus under the Turkish Communal Chamber, and
in the Northern Cyprus Turkish Republic (KKTC [TRNC]) remaining English and Religious Studies & Ethics teacher at Bayraktar secondary & Girls Technical Institute, retire 1979 ~he was President of İplik Pazarı historical buildings preservation society,
in 1950s encouraged establishing the first Cyprus Turkish Association in Britain, in retirement was invited to visit and talk to Australian Turkish Cypriot schools, wrote socio-political newspaper columns.)
Teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari's funeral was attended by, crowds, dignitaries, school pupils, teachers (Halkın Sesi news & photo. [Baturay] 19 December 1992);
wreaths by youth & business associations were carried by school children & flowers lain on his tomb by his former students
(Epitapth on teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari's tomb is the Minister of Education's "Öğretmenlerin Öğretmeni"[Teacher of Teachers])
Streets named after teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari are in Nicosia [1993] and in Loudricina/Lysi [2006] in Cyprus [KKTC/TRNC]
~
*
'Akıncılar (Luricina) Türklerinin Yüzyıllık Varoluş Mücadelesi -Bir Kahramanalık Belgesi' (pp. 86-87 ) [in Turkish]
[The 100 Year Struggle for Existence of the Turks of Loudrijina -A Documentation of Heroism], by Hasan Yücelen, Ateş Press Lefkoşa 2006
** (biographical) 'Batmayan Eğitim Güneşlerimiz (Kıbrıs Türk Eğitimi Hakkında Bir Araştırma)',
KKTC
Milli Eğitim ve Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları (pp. 350-358) [in Turkish] [Our
Forever
Shining Suns on Education -research on Turkish Cypriot Education, TRNC
Ministry of Education
&
Culture Cyprus publication]: 6, Ulus Ofset Baskı 72959 Lefkoşa 1987, by Ali Nesim
*** (biographical) 'Аναμνησεις Аπο Τη Ζωη Μου', by Χαριλαος Ι Κιτρομηλιδης (pp.49& 201) [in Greek] ['Images from my Life' by Charilaos Kitromilides], Nicholas Printers London 2002
**** 'Krallar da Ölür' (p.149), [in Turkish] [Also Die Kings] by Osman Güvenir,
ISBN: 978-9963-9211-1-9,
Halkın Sesi Publishing Lefkoşa 2009
† Rahme Çiftçioğlu's three-page feature in Kıbrıs of 11 December 2011 on teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari is semi-photo-biographical
There is biographical information on teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari also
in
'Βιογραφικόν Λεξικόν Κυπρίων 1800-1920', v. F, by Αριστείδη Λ. Κουδουνάρη, (p. 52 ) [in Greek] (Biographical Dictionary
of Cypriots 1800-1920], 6th ed. [Winner of the University of Cyprus 2010 Award], by Aristides L Koudounaris [formerly, president, Cyprus Historical Society]), Pierides Foundation publication,
ISBN: 878-9963-7856-3-6, Nicosia 2010
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