Mehmet Haluk Sevel
Mehmet Halûk Sevel was born in ?stanbul in 1944 and he graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from the Technical University of Istanbul in 1969. He completed his military service as a reserve officer at the 4th AB in Ankara and at the Dept. of Engineering, Constructions and Housing of the TurAF during which he had the chance of visiting many air bases and TurAF facilities. After the completion of his military service, he started working as a mechanical engineer on heating-ventilation and air-conditioning which is his specialization. Since retirement in 2000 he is continuing his professional career as a technical consultant. Sevel’s interest in aviation goes back to the high-school years when he started following the foreign aviation literature and started making scale-down aircraft models. In the last 10 years he concentrated his works on the History of Turkish Aviation. In the early 2000’s he noticed that the coloured profiles of most of the Turkish aircraft did not exist and therefore he diverted his works to this subject. During his work covering the past ten years he has completed more than 500 coloured profiles. Some of his works have been published within Türkiye and abroad. Some of the profiles are used in this book published for the 100th anniversary of the TurAF. His profile works are continuing. In addition to his profile works Mr Sevel has also written articles and participated the preparation of some books. He is the editor of the section “airplanes” at www.tayyareci.com . Some of his articles are also presented at the same website. He has also cooperated with the History Branch of the TurAF for the second edition of the series “Aircraft Families in the TurAF” composed of 10 books. M. Halûk Sevel, whose works on aviation are continuing, is married and has two children and he is living in Kar??yaka-Izmir.
Books
- The History of Turkish Military Aircraft Volume 1 : From Inception to the War of Independence 1912-1923 Author
