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Huseyin Husnu Turkmen's work which was awarded the third award in the Jeli Taliq categorydents were allowed to use such pencils. Since Mr. Parildarwas younger, he was not allowed to write with such a pen.The love of art inside his heart, though, made him take hisfriend’s pen secretly of the hodja, and write a single line. Seeingthis, his hodja did allow him to begin doing calligraphyin a rudimentary way.Huseyin Husnu Turkmen was born in Trabzon in 1970. Whilestudying at the Pertevniyal Lisesi, (highschool) in Istanbul,he was both playing football in the amateur way, and wasinterested in painting. This interest lead him to the TraditionalTurkish arts Department at the Mimar Sinan Faculty ofFine Arts. His real artistic training, though, began after attendingthe courses delivered by a master calligrapher.Menaf Nam’s story, though, is much more different. In1980, he was born into the life of poverty in a village of Bingolcalled Karan, as the fourth child of a family with 7 children.Both financial difficulties, and the force majeure in thatregion due to the circumstances in those years lead him toIstanbul. Coming to Istanbul with his greatest dream, to bea painter, in his mind, getting attracted to the beautiful calligraphyhe saw on a newspaper page, Mr. Nam later putaside this dream and headed straight for the beautiful calligraphycourse in ISMEK. Being unaware, of course, that hewould, years later, become a master teacher in ISMEK wherehe started as a trainee.All Three Gave Their Hands to Master CalligraphersWe had mentioned that Mustafa Parildar was introduced tothe strawlike pen at the fourth grade. Writing calligraphy rudimentarilywith this pen, he is then sent by his hodja to calligrapherMehmet Memis. Working on “Rabbiyessir” withMr. Memis at 12, he attends Mr. Memis’s training for 5 years.“After highschool, I was enrolled in the Calligraphy Departmentof the Faculty of Fine Arts in the Selcuk Universityupon the recommendation of my master, and attended thetraining circle of Mr. Huseyin Oksuz.” He says, and adds thathe still keeps on attending his masters’ trainings although hewas already authorised as a calligrapher.Huseyin Husnu Turkmen, on the other hand, received trainingfrom quite a few masters. Enrolling in the Turkish HandicraftsDepartment in the Fine Arts Faculty at the Mimar SinanUniversity in 1991, Mr. Turkmen first begins doing calligraphywith his late master Mahmut Oncu. “I had the chanceto receive Rik’a training from my late master Mahmut Oncu.After he passed away, I carried on doing Rik’a with my masterAli Alparslan.” He says. He learns Taliq, Jely Taliq, Divaniand Jely Divani from Mr. Alparslan until 1997, and is authorisedas a calligrapher. Working on Nesih with Assist, Assoc.Prof Huseyin Oksuz for a while, he completes his Nesih andThuluth training when he comes to Istanbul, and is authorisedas a calligrapher in these writing styles as well.The first stop of Menaf Nam who came to Istanbul with thedream to become a painter is the Umraniye Teaching Centerof Ismek. There he gets to know Calligrapher SuleymanBerk, who taught at the Beautiful Calligraphy Branch of IS-MEK in those years, and receiveshis first training fromMr. Berk for one and a halfyears. Saying one and ahalf years later that he hasnothing more to teach Menaf,Mr. Berk sends his studentto master CalligrapherOsman Ozcay. Nam, whocontinues to do calligraphywith his master Osman Oz-Huseyin Husnu Turkmen159