Refik Halid Karay

Died in 1965

Refik Halid was born on 14 March 1888 in Beylerbeyi, on the Asian shore of Istanbul; his father was named Mehmed Halid Bey. He studied at Galatasaray and at the law school, worked at the Ministry of Finance, then became a journalist after 1908. An opponent of the Committee of Union and Progress, he was banished to several towns in Anatolia from 1913 to 1918. Director of Posts and Telegraphs, he was placed in 1922 on the list of the hundred and fifty proscribed, according to the Küre encyclopaedia, and lived in exile in Beirut and Aleppo. Returning in 1938 thanks to an amnesty, he died in Istanbul on 18 July 1965.

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Short storiesMemleket HikâyeleriRefik Halid Karay · 1919not translated into EnglishLiterature