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for 3 years in Artvin Yusufeli, the closest town to Erzurum. By<br />

saying “Love does not stay still, it directs me somewhere.”<br />

he explains how he cannot stay away from the love of calligraphy;<br />

he is not in Istanbul, though. Because of Yusufeli`s<br />

being a little town, there was no big change in Celebi’s life<br />

in terms of calligraphy. The things he did at those times were<br />

preparing oil colored pictures for traders and trying to keep<br />

writing by copying variety of different calligraphies.<br />

Getting Closer To The Arranged Time<br />

After three years, Mr. Celebi moved to Istanbul again. His<br />

milieu was Uskudar again. Although he did not sit before a<br />

teacher to learn new methods of calligraphy, he kept writing<br />

on his own. While the completed writings were being put<br />

on the shelves as to get soothed, there was always a new<br />

paper on the table and there would always be new writings<br />

to be written in the near future.<br />

Surah Al-Insán, verse 21, written in the Jeli Thuluth script<br />

Efendi in 1964. “Sukru Efendi used to have our friends read<br />

Buhari. 4 We went to him with a friend.” says Celebi with a<br />

nice smile on his face. “My friend introduced me as a calligrapher.<br />

Yet I even did not know how to hold the pencil correctly.<br />

As my friend was inferior to me in calligraphic knowledge,<br />

he reckoned that my writings were masterpieces; therefore<br />

he introduced me as a calligrapher. Afterwards, Sukru Efendi<br />

looked at my writings and said ‘My son, this process cannot<br />

be taken without a teacher.’ But it was impossible to find<br />

one and have him educate me!”<br />

Hasan Celebi explains meaningfully how he follows the track<br />

of this love in a certain and an uninterrupted way: “People<br />

invent such things that you will try to discover its essence<br />

and fail to understand it for years. Calligraphers running behind<br />

this curve for four hundred years could not reach the<br />

outcome.”<br />

While days were passing in that manner, one of Celebi’s<br />

friends helped him; he talked about a significant person<br />

named Sukru Efendi who is an imam in Toygar Mosque. After<br />

ten years from his first visit to Istanbul, they go to Sukru<br />

A Day After Rain<br />

Hasan Celebi followed Buhari courses awhile that Sukru<br />

Efendi gives. There is a stonemason,on the way whose name<br />

is Yusuf Efendi, he takes Hasan Celebi to Sukru Efendi. Like<br />

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