Education
Of Georgian ancestry, Çiloğlu studied journalism in Istanbul, and worked for many years as an editor specializing in encyclopedias and as a director of publications.
Of Georgian ancestry, Çiloğlu studied journalism in Istanbul, and worked for many years as an editor specializing in encyclopedias and as a director of publications.
In Georgian publications, he uses the pen name ფარნა-ბექა ჩილაშვილი (Parna-Beka Chilashvili). In addition to writing numerous journal and newspaper articles, he has also translated fiction and non-fiction works from Georgian to Turkish. He was the editor of the bilingual Turkish-Georgian journal Pirosmani, which was published in Istanbul between 2007 and 2010.
Among Çiloğlu’s non-fiction works in Turkish is Gürcülerin Tarihi (Istanbul, 1993), a survey of Georgian history, which includes the history of Georgian people in Turkey.
Çiloğlu is also one of the authors of the book Contrasts and Solutions in the Caucasus edited by Ole Høiris and Sefa Martin Yürükel in 1998. His essays in Turkish which were published in various places between 2003 and 2009 were translated into Georgian and published in Georgia as a book titled "A Drop of Lemon" ("ერთი წვეთი ლიმონი").
Fahrettin Çiloğlu is a member of the Turkish Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association club