Early History
Ahmet Kayhan was born in the Aktarla (Mako) village of Malatya Province, Turkey in early 1898, although the Turkish government lists his official year of birth as 1905. His father died when he was a child, and his mother in his early youth. For some years he stayed with an aunt.
Kayhan first met "Keko" (Ahmet Kaya Efendi), the man that would become his master, when he was only four or five years old. But his true discipleship began in his early twenties.
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