Career
He was a regular contributor to Kadro, a left-wing journal dedicated to "discussions on ideology and economic-development strategy." Burhan Asaf Belge is the father of the prominent Turkish intellectual Murat Belge and the first husband of the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (in 1937-1941). He was the brother-in-law of Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu.