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Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu

Died in 1974

Yakup Kadri was born on 27 March 1889 in Cairo, into the Karaosmanoğlu family of Manisa, and grew up in Manisa and Izmir. During the War of Independence, he supported the national struggle in the newspaper İkdam. Deputy for Manisa from 1931 to 1934, he was one of the founders of the review Kadro. Ambassador from 1934, in Tirana, Prague, The Hague, Bern and Tehran according to the Diyanet encyclopaedia, he retired in 1955, then became deputy for Manisa again in 1961. He died in Ankara on 13 December 1974.

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