Cem Akas (born 1968) is a Turkish novelist, who was born in Mannheim, Germany. He was educated in Turkey and the United States in Chemical Engineering (BSc), Political Science (MA) and Turkish History (PhD). He has worked for Yapi Kredi Publications, Istanbul, between 1992 and 2004. In 2004 he left YKY and formed his own publishing group: G Yayin Grubu. Excerpted from Wikipedia.