Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ata Atun is a Turkish Cypriot and
was born in 1948 at Istanbul, Turkey. He graduated from T.E.D.Ankara
College and Şişli College and then attended Al Hikma American
University (a branch of Boston University) in Baghdad, Iraq - now
the University of Baghdad - for his Civil Engineering studies.
Granted with several scholarships, Mr Atun received his BSc degree
in 1971. He later undertook graduate study and research in the
Computer Analysis Programme of Monolithic Split Foundations at
Century University, Los Angeles, USA (now in Albuquerque, New
Mexico) receiving an M.Sc. degree in 1987. This was followed by
postgraduate study and research into 'Survey and Analysis of the
gravels of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus' in the same
University, for which he received a Ph.D. Degree in 1989. He
completed a post Doctorate Programme held in Washington DC, USA in
December 1994, received an Associated Professor degree in 1998 at
Near East University and was expecting to be a full Professor on or
around December 2004.
Page 6 magazine published his articles and
programs on the subjects of
Quick Disassembling of
Assembly Language and
Menu Arrangements
in May 1986 and November 1986 respectively. He also wrote an article
on Disk Directories which appeared in Nugget Magazine, in April
1986.
His research titled “An estimation of the fish
stock of the bay of Famagusta based on recorded catch of trawl
fishing-part I” was submitted to Tehnonav International
Symposium, Bucharest, Romania in May 2000 and the second part was
submitted to 3rd World Congress, Beijing, China in November 2000.
Recently, his findings were published by the Wessex Institute of
Technology in STREMAH 2003.
Mr Atun is the author of many academic books:
Technical Drawing, Ed.1 (1993) , Ed.2 (2001) Text Book, TD102
Course; Plane Surveying with Linear Measurement Text Book,
CE202 Course; ACI Standarts vs TS500 Standarts, Reference hand
book and Structural Design Text Book, TD486 Course, Basic
Ship Stability Text Book, MDNRC 212, Ship Construction for
Merchant Marine Officers, Text Book, MDNRC 201, Mathematics-1
, Basics of Calculus Text Book, MATH 101 , Mathematics-2 ,
Plane Trigonometry and Elementary Calculus Text Book, MATH
102 , Statics & Dynamics (Lecture Notes), Mathematics-4 , Complex
Numbers & Differentiation (Lecture Notes), all written in
English, now currently in use in Near East University of North
Cyprus.
He is the founder of SAMTAY FOUNDATION, a research
and literature foundation whose objective is to “transform the
past and present of the Town of Famagusta on to documents to be
carried to the future.” The foundation released 10 books about
the various parts of the cultural history of the Turkish community
in Cyprus. He is the author of MAGUSA YAZILARI, a history of
the town of Famagusta between 66 B.C. - 772 A.D. He is also
researching the Dominican church which once existed in the town of
Famagusta prior to 1571, though no trace is available now. His
research on the names of towns, rivers, places, mountains and lakes
of Cyprus, amounting to nearly 865, which rapidly changed due to at
least 13 different reigns since 450 B.C. is complete and his book
titled “Names of Locations of Cyprus lost in the depths of 2500
years of history”, including a bilingual map of Cyprus, was
released in January 2005. He completed his research and works on a
book of 1500 pages in 3 volumes about the “Medieval History of
Cyprus based on written manuscripts” by compiling and
translating the manuscripts and letters of European travellers
visiting Cyprus between 400 B.C. – 1900 A.D., and the first volume
was released in March 2005.
Mr Atun went in for politics in 1976 and was
elected as a Member of Parliament, representing the constituency of
Famagusta in the National Assembly. He was appointed as an advisor
to Mr. Serdar Denktash, the president of the Democratic Party of
North Cyprus in January 2002, and had an active role in the opening
of the borders (check points) between North Cyprus (Turkish sector)
and South Cyprus (Greek sector) on 23rd April 2003.
He was appointed as the Chief Negotiator and the
Team Leader to the Turkish Cyprus Delegation for the sub committee
discussions between Cyprus Turkish Cypriots and Cyprus Greek
Cypriots, organized under the auspices of the United Nations, in
February, March and April 2004.
He- has been the head of the board of directors of
the local newspaper “Cumhuriyet Kuzey Kıbrıs” since September 2003
and an independent (newspaper) writer mainly in the topics of
European Union, Democracy and the Political situation in Cyprus. He
was appointed as the Chairman to the National development Bank in
January 2005.
Mr Atun is married to Suna Atun and father of son
Sunat and daughter Asu.
Ata Atun, March 2005
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