BERKAY DOĞAN — BIOGRAPHY

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Berkay Doğan is a poet and writer based in Istanbul, the author of Mürekkep ve Köz (poetry, 2025) and Tasfiye (essays, 2026), and the founder of ŞİMDİ (necaliyor.co), a live view of what Turkey's radio stations are playing right now.

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Berkay Doğan is a poet and writer based in Istanbul. He began writing in 2017, at seventeen; after eight quiet years, he released two books, a short film and a radio platform within ten months. His debut poetry collection Mürekkep ve Köz (İskenderiye, December 2025) became the most visited title in Trendyol's poetry category and holds a 10/10 reader rating on 1000Kitap. His second book, the essay collection Tasfiye (August 2026), puts the reader in a courtroom of self-reckoning; its short film, TASFİYE: Film (8 min, text from the book, narrated by the author), was released on YouTube in September 2026. He is the founder of ŞİMDİ (necaliyor.co), which shows and counts what is playing right now across Turkey's radio stations, and hosts the podcast Şairin Hesabı.

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He began writing at seventeen. For eight years he wrote in silence; then, in ten months, came two books, a film and a radio.

Berkay Doğan is a poet and writer based in Istanbul. For him, writing is not a choice but a necessity — the quietest confession of existence. Every day he does not write is a day he betrays himself.

He began writing in 2017, at seventeen. For most, that age is still a threshold of innocence; for him it was the moment he started to see the true face of society. Since then, what feeds him is life itself more than literature: a pair of eyes, a building riddled with holes, walking the streets he once knew as a changed man.

His first book, Ink and Ember: A Poet's Reckoning (2025), was torn from within a suffocating solitude, national chaos, and existential crisis. His second, Tasfiye, is a critique of the existing order — a call to bring back the philosophical dose we have lost. Between the two runs a reckoning that stretches from poetry to essay.

Poetry and radio are born in the same place: in listening. In 2026 he founded ŞİMDİ (necaliyor.co), which shows — and counts — what is playing right now across Turkey's radio stations: a poet chasing after sound.
