Koray Lynx

Dr. Koray Lynx (formerly Yusuf nceta ) was born into a Turkish Gastarbeiter family in Germany. He started elementary school there, but later finished his secondary and college education in Turkey. He lived and worked in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, and the United States. After serving in the U.S. Army, he worked as a certified public-school teacher in Illinois, taught English as a second language at Harvard University, and pursued a career as a Turkish language instructor at the Defense...See more

Dr. Koray Lynx (formerly Yusuf nceta ) was born into a Turkish Gastarbeiter family in Germany. He started elementary school there, but later finished his secondary and college education in Turkey. He lived and worked in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, and the United States. After serving in the U.S. Army, he worked as a certified public-school teacher in Illinois, taught English as a second language at Harvard University, and pursued a career as a Turkish language instructor at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. He is currently Chair of the Teacher Preparation Program at Heritage University in Toppenish, Washington, the only higher education institution founded on Yakama Nation land. He has a PhD in secondary and continuing education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is married to David Lynx, and has two cats; Groot, a Zen master, and Leyla, a drama queen. See less