Dr Senai Demirci
Psychotherapist / Mesnevi Therapy Instructor
He was born on 11 November 1963 in Samsun. His youth was spent looking for answers to difficult questions. Then he learnt to ask the questions of difficult answers. He did not like easy answers. He worked as a shoemaker apprentice. He polished a lot of shoes. He shepherded cows in the mountains. He chatted with ants, listened to cicadas, accompanied the gurgling of streams, climbed cherry trees, searched for and found non-poisonous mushrooms.
He grew up without a mother. He loved the hurt ones very much. He read writers whose ink flowed from his heart. He would fall asleep while reading Kemalettin Tuğcu. He kept his promise to his grandmothers who said “You will be a doctor!”. When he was a student at the Faculty of Medicine, he realised that the easiest pain to bear was someone else’s pain. When he found the pain of others unbearable, he learnt that he would become human. While memorising bones and muscles and walking the paths of the heart and blood vessels, he tried to listen to the dim labyrinths of the human soul. He began to write. His ideal was to become a writer. He accumulated syllables in order to take the words to heart, to break the ordinariness of the visible.

She realised that the depths of human beings are beautiful, albeit fearful. He still works as a psychotherapist. He tries to learn the sum total of human inner pain. He prefers to be a novice and an amateur in the face of life and human beings. He likes to stand at the knee of each poem and ask for its memory.
Poet, writer, television actor, physician. 1963, Terme / Samsun born. He graduated from Terme Atatürk Primary School (1975), Terme Secondary School (1978) and Terme High School (1981). Then he studied at Hacettepe University, School of Foreign Languages, Department of English for one year. After leaving there, he started his medical education at Samsun On dokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Medicine and completed his medical education at Marmara University in 1990.

Senai Demirci started to work as a physician in Malatya in 1990, and in 1991-92 he worked as Malatya Provincial Assistant Health Director and as a vocational courses teacher at Malatya Health Vocational High School. In 1992-95, he worked as a training officer at the Istanbul Health Directorate, and also served as chief physician and corporate communication manager in many private hospitals in Istanbul; he gave seminars.

Dr. Demirci, who has written works in the genres of essay, research, story and diary, has undertaken the production and copywriting of many television and radio programmes as well as being a physician and writer. Demirci, who took a film directing course, also starred in a feature film called “Bendeyar”… He worked as an editorial consultant in the magazines “Sağlığınız” and “Sağlık 2000”, as editor-in-chief in the magazine “Çare”, as a member of the editorial board in the magazine “Impression”, and as an editor in the magazine “Diyalog”. His essays, articles and poems were published in “Yeni Dünya” and “Zafer” magazines, he is a writer on the website “dualar.com” and continues his medical practice in Istanbul.

WORKS:
RESEARCH-COMPILATION: Passing through the Narrow Gate (2000), A Prayer for Every Day (with his wife Semine Demirci, 2002), Happiness Stories (with Murat Çiftkaya, 2003), Stories about Love (2003), Stories Dedicated to Love (2003), Can Kırığı (2003), Rewriting Our Heart (2003), A Prayer for Every Day with My Child (with Semine Demirci, 2003), Ve Aşk Marriage’s Hands Tuttu (2005), Prayer Rosary (in Arabic, 2005), Tanrı Sana Küsmedi (with Yusuf Özburun, 2006), Birinci Söz (2006), Selam Sana Ey Nebi (2007), Kıl Beni Ey Namaz (2007), Dua Defterim (2008), Canla Bağışla (2009), Söz Yangını (2009), Vahyin Binbir Sesi (2010), Işıklı Kurabiye (Child, with Semine Demirci, 2010), Üç Yusuf Üç Rüya Üç Gömlek (2011), Elde Var İnsan (2011), Cevşen-Binbir Esma Poetry (2012).
HEALTH: Health Secrets (2003), Hoş Geldin Bebeğim / For Mothers in Mothers’ Language (2009).
DIARY: Pilgrimage Diary: Towards the Home of the Beloved (2003).
TRANSLATIONS: Risale Thoughts / Ideals and Realities (1987), From Chaos to Order (by Ilya Prigogine, 1993), The Other Side of Science (by Y.Bouguenaya, 1996), Writing on Water (by M.Shakoor, 1996).