1·At his high school, Robert College in Istanbul, he put Rabindranath Tagore into Turkish at 14; some years later, as a press attache in London, he studied Bengali to read Tagore in the original.
高中时代,他就读于伊斯坦布尔的罗伯特学院,年仅十四岁,就将泰戈尔的作品翻译成土耳其语;几年后,他在伦敦担任新闻专员时,为了能够读懂泰戈尔的原著,学习了孟加拉语。