Biography
Alptekin is the son of Isa Alptekin, who in 1933-1934 was the General Secretary of the First East Turkestan Republic in western China. After the People's Liberation Army invasion of East Turkestan (1949) in 1949 and succession by the new People's Republic of China, Alptekin's family fled to Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. There he attended Catholic school and then Convent College, completing his studies in the Institute of Journalism in Istanbul. Alptekin is based in Germany.
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