Namık Kemal

Died in 1888

Namık Kemal was born in December 1840 in Tekirdağ, on the 2nd according to Britannica, on the 21st according to the Turkish Ministry of Culture, into an aristocratic family, and learned Persian, Arabic and French privately. He worked at the State translation bureau, became a journalist and joined the Young Ottomans; in 1867 he fled to Europe and published the newspaper Hürriyet in London. Back around 1870, he directed the newspaper İbret. Exiled to Cyprus from 1873 to 1876, he then governed islands of the Empire, including Chios, where he died on 2 December 1888. He brought the notions of fatherland and liberty into Turkish.

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TheatreVatan yahut SilistreNamık Kemal · 1873not translated into EnglishLiterature