Sunay Akın, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sunay Akın

Turkish poet, writer, TV host, journalist

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1962

Place of Birth: Maçka, Turkey

Profession: writer, poet, television presenter, journalist

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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Sunay Akin (born September 12, 1962) is a Turkish poet, writer, TV host, journalist, and a philanthropist.
He is the founder of Istanbul Toy Museum. Akin was born in Trabzon, Turkey.
Akin is best known for his poetry; his primary influences include Orhan Veli Kanik and Cemal Süreya.
His poems are generally lyric, short, and soft in tone.
He also often makes use of satirical forms and puns. Akin has a collection of over 7,000 toys, some of which date back nearly 200 years.
4,000 of them are on display in the Istanbul Toy Museum which opened in 2005.He co-hosts a TV show called "Yasamdan Dakikalar" ("Minutes from Life") on the TV channel tv8, together with Hincal Uluç, Hasmet Babaoglu, and Nebil Özgentürk.
He has hosted other TV and radio programmes such as "Mahya Isiklari", "Stüdyo Istanbul" and "Izler" on the TV channel TRT 2, "Gezgin Korkuluk" on the TV channel tv8, and "Vesaire...Vesaire" on the radio channel Yasam Radyo.
He lectures at Marmara University, and Müjdat Gezen Art School, as well as at his own institution, the Istanbul Toy Museum. Akin regularly stages one man shows in Turkey and abroad, and participates in panels and conferences.
He contributes as a regular columnist to the newspaper Cumhuriyet.
His column is named after his 2004 book, "Kule Cambazi" ("Tower Acrobat"), in reference to Istanbul's Maiden's Tower.