Poet
(b. 1872, İstanbul – d. 27 February 1959). He graduated from Kadıköy Freres
Private French School and Mülkiye Mektebi (School of Political Sciences). He worked as a
civil servant at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Public Works. He was
exiled to a district in Malatya during the rule of Abdülhamit II. and
consequently, he fled to Europe. He participated in the Young Turk Congress
that assembled in Paris (1902).
He
worked as a correspondent in Bursa, a director at the Directorate of Printing
and as a teacher at the School for Orphans for many years. The influence of
Tevfik Fikret can be seen in his poems that were on love, women, nature and
exile. Some of his poems were not published. He is buried in Zincirlikuyu
Cemetery.
WORKS:
Leyâl-i Girizan
(Nights That Run Away, 1910), Bağbozumu
(Vintage, 1928), Kıvılcımlı Kül (Ash
with Flame, 1937), Kargalar (The
Crows, 1942).