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Arif Cemil Denker was born in Istanbul in 1888. Denker's grandfather, who belongs to a family of musicians, is Hacı Arif Bey, one of our famous composers, and his father is Cemil Arif Bey, one of our famous cellists. After graduating from primary school, he completed his secondary education at Istanbul German High School. Although Denker later wanted to study law, his education was interrupted, but he learned German, English and French very well and worked as a teacher and journalist. During this process, he established close relations with Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa and its members. Denker, who was appointed as a student inspector in Berlin during the First World War due to his command of foreign languages, placed approximately 800 Turkish young people with suitable families and ensured that the young people continued their education there. It is also known that he served as the private secretary of Talat Pasha, who went to Germany after the First World War. Denker, who published his memoirs about the Committee of Union and Progress and the Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa in various newspapers during the Republic period, died in 1945, unable to recover from the serious illness he contracted in 1939. The most important work of Arif Cemil Denker, known for his serials and articles, is his son Prof. Dr. It is the German-Turkish Grand Dictionary, which he prepared for publication together with Bülent Davran (after the Surname Law was passed, he took the surname "Denker" and his children took the surname Davran).