Ahmet An

Ahmet An was born in 1950 in Nicosia.
After he completed his elementary and secondary education in the same city, he went to Turkey for medical studies.
He graduated from the Cerrahpasha Faculty of Medicine of the University of Istanbul in 1975. He made his specialization in Children's Diseases and received his diploma in 1981 from the University of Leipzig/Germany. From 1982 to 2004, he worked as a paediatrician in his private practice in Nicosia.
He was the Turkish-Cypriot Coordinator of the Bi-communal Movement for an Independent and Federal Cyprus formed in 1989. After waiting 11 years, Ahmet An won his case against Turkey in the European Court of Human Rights in February 2003 for his freedom of assembly which he was deprived because of his activities for more contacts between the two communities in Cyprus.
Since 1971, he has been writing articles and studies on Cyprus problem and the history of the island in various newspapers and journals in Istanbul and Nicosia. He has already published the following books, in which he collected some of his previously published works about the history of the Turkish Cypriots in the political and cultural fields:
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