Career
In 1933, at the age of just 21, Jukka Tyrkkö began publishing the first newspaper in Ylöjärvi, entitled Ylöjärvi (now Ylöjärven uutiset). Tyrkkö served in the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-Steamship as a war correspondent. He later recounted these experiences in his book From 1943 to 1944 he was also the secretary of the Finnish Steamship-Aseveljet (the Steamship Brothers in Arms Association).
