Alper Tunga Dost is a Turkish author, engineer, and lifelong observer of people and the world around him. After many years in engineering and the water treatment industry, working with international companies and different cultures, he began devoting more time to writing. He is the author of three books: Kariyer Anahtarı, Umut Kapısı, and Aurora.
His writing explores ordinary people, memories, choices, relationships, and the small moments that quietly change our lives. Alongside fiction and essays, he continues to write about engineering and water treatment and is also an online instructor. Every Friday at 7:00 p.m., he publishes a new blog post on his personal website.
For him, writing and engineering begin in the same place: curiosity. One tries to understand how things work; the other, why people do.
He lives in İzmir, Türkiye.
Alper Tunga Dost is a Turkish author, engineer, and lifelong observer of people and the world around him. After many years in engineering and the water treatment industry, working with international companies and different cultures, he began devoting more time to writing. He is the author of three books: Kariyer Anahtarı, Umut Kapısı, and Aurora.
His writing explores ordinary people, memories, choices, relationships, and the small moments that...
“Be patient, and wish for it with all your heart,” the angel told him…
What if the life you longed for was waiting behind a door you could only open in your dreams?
Ümit has spent years watching his life slowly become something he no longer recognises. His marriage has faded into silence, his career has become an endless cycle of pressure and routine, and the future seems to promise little more than another version...
Murat has built a life that appears complete from the outside: a successful company, financial security, a respected family name and a future others would envy. Yet beneath the surface lies a growing emptiness—an aging father slipping into dementia, a relationship that has lost its meaning, and the quiet realization that years of work have left...
I used to think that a writer's greatest struggle was finishing the book. Now I realise that the real struggle begins once the book is complete: reaching people who do not yet even know it exists.
I could list a whole host of proverbs and sayings about keeping secrets. For some reason, these sayings advise us not to share our secrets in the first place, and if we do, to share them only with trustworthy friends. “Don’t tell a secret to a friend, for they’ll tell it to their friend…” Is this really the case? Have you ever witnessed a secret you shared with a friend coming back to you, distorted in some way?
