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Orga, Ates

Ates Orga is a writer and classical recording producer. His books include biographies of Beethoven and Chopin as well as a personal anthology of poems, Istanbul, in Eland’s Poetry of Place series.

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Dreaming of the Bosphorus

Ates Orga on Irfan Orga, Portrait of a Turkish Family

My father Irfan Orga (1908–70) first set foot in England in July 1942, as a staff captain commanding Turkish Air Force pilots completing their training with the RAF. The posting changed his life. In London, challenging the Turkish law of the day forbidding members of the armed forces or diplomatic service from cohabiting with foreign nationals, he took up with a young, irregularly beautiful Norman-Irish lapsed Catholic, Margaret, then married to someone else. She assumed his surname in 1944, seven months before I was born.

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