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Yakup Yaşar completed his primary education at Fatih Primary School in Aliağa, İzmir, and his secondary education at Aliağa Super High School. He received his B.A. degree in English Language and Literature from Ege University. In 2010, he was appointed as a Research Assistant in the Department of English Language and Literature at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University. Between 2011 and 2017, he pursued an Integrated Ph.D. Program in the Department of English Language and Literature at Ankara University, earning his doctoral degree in 2017.

Since 2019, Dr. Yaşar has been serving as a faculty member in the Department of English Translation and Interpreting at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University. His academic research primarily focuses on Theatre Studies, Contemporary British Drama, Post-war British Fiction, Humour, Satire, and Creative Literary Writing. He has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters in national and international journals and edited volumes within these fields.

In addition to his academic career, Dr. Yaşar is an accomplished playwright and theatre director. Several of his original plays have been professionally staged under his own direction, and he continues to pursue both playwriting and directing alongside his academic work.

Cherry, submitted to the festival, marks Yakup Yaşar’s debut in cinema as both screenwriter and director.