describe his childhood and wealthy bourgeois family in Istanbul, Turkey, in the early 1900s. His mother, Sevkiye (1895-1940), was a Balkan/Turkish woman (aged fifteen at his birth), while his father ran his own business. He describes his autocratic grandmother as an eccentric socialite.

Educated at Kuleli Military High School, Harbiye Staff College, and Eskisehir Air College (1919-1933), Orga was born into a wealthy