Eygi, who died at the age of 86 in the hospital where he was taken to the hospital on 12 July 2019 due to heart disease, is buried in Merkezefendi Cemetery.
Mehmed Şevket Eygi, the grandson of Kolağası Neşet Bey, was born on February 7, 1933 in the Ereğli district of Zonguldak as the only child of Mehmet Sait and Seher Hanım.
Eygi, who started his education in 1940 at Maktab-i Sultani, now known as Galatasaray High School, learned French well during his education at Galatasaray High School.
He took lessons from Ottoman minister Raşit Erer, Aydın deputy Enver Tekand, poet Orhan Şaik Gökyay, literary historian Nihad Sami Banarlı and poet Ahmet Kutsi Tecer.
Eygi, who won Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences in 1952, studied diplomacy at the faculty with Cemal Süreya and Sezai Karakoç.
Mehmed Şevket Eygi described his university years, when he was also a translator at the cultural center of the French government in Ankara, in an interview with the following words:
"When I finished Galatasaray and started studying at Ankara Political Sciences, I felt like a fish that was taken out of an aquarium and thrown into the sea. In those days there was no anarchy like today. Right-wing, reactionary, left-wing and intellectual youth in politics could have friendly discussions on literary, intellectual, cultural and social issues. Sezai Karakoç was the brightest Muslim youth of the faculty in literary matters. We were able to drink tea and chat comfortably with Cemal Süreya and other leftist friends in the canteen."
NEW STARTED JOURNALISM IN İSTİKLAL
Eygi, who graduated from the university in 1956, worked as a translator in the Presidency of Religious Affairs for 2 years, and for a while worked as the special clerk of Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen. The master writer started publishing a magazine called "Islam" in 1957 with a group of 10 people.
Eygi, who presented his first article to the readers in Sebilürreşad magazine published by Eşref Edib, completed his military service in 1958-1959 as a reserve officer.
Eygi resigned from his job as a civil servant during the May 27, 1960 revolution and settled in Istanbul to work as a journalist. Eygi, who started journalism in Yeni İstiklal, which was brought to the management by Mahir İz's proposal and published weekly, also established Bedir Publishing House in this process.
The master pen, who spent most of his half-century-long journalistic life in courtrooms and prisons, was first arrested because of the article titled "The most despicable of oppression is structured in the shadow of the law", which he wrote on the anniversary of Adnan Menderes' execution in 1961.
LIVED ABROAD FOR 6 YEARS
Mehmed Şevket Eygi started to publish the newspaper "Bugün" in 1966 and bought the newspaper "Sabah in Babıali" in 1968.
Nihat Erim's government closed the newspaper "Bugün" and "Babiali'de Sabah" newspaper, which printed approximately 90,000 copies a day and whose staff included Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Şule Yüksel Şenler and Nizamettin Nazif Tepedelenlioğlu.
The master writer left Turkey in January 1969 to go on a pilgrimage.
Eygi lived in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon and Germany for 6 years due to the lawsuits filed after the events that took place a month later and went down in history as "Bloody Sunday".
WROTE FOR MİLLİ GAZETE SINCE 1991 TO HIS DEATH
From 1991 until his death, Eygi met with his readers in the column named "Calendar Yapraklar" in the Milli Gazete.
He was sentenced to one year and 8 months in prison on October 9, 2002, due to his article in the newspaper titled "Terrorism of Enmity to Religion".
In 2006, he was sentenced to one year in prison for allegedly inciting the people to hatred and enmity in one of his articles.
Eygi, who died at the age of 86 in the hospital where he was taken to the hospital on 12 July 2019 due to heart disease, is buried in Merkezefendi Cemetery.