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Enis Behiç Koryürek

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Enis Behiç Koryürek
Born(1891-03-11)11 March 1891
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died18 October 1949(1949-10-18) (aged 58)
Ankara, Turkey
OccupationWriter,
LanguageTurkish
NationalityTurkish

Enis Behiç Koryürek, (11 March 1891–18 October 1949), was a Turkish poet, teacher, diplomat and bureaucrat.

He is a diplomat who has made great contributions to the development of Turkish-Hungarian friendship and turning Gül Baba Tomb into a museum again. He was one of the first bureaucrats who approached the workers' issues seriously and opened the ways of institutionalization for solutions.[1]

Biography

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He was born in 1891 in the Aksaray district of Istanbul. His father is Doctor Lieutenant Colonel İsmail Behiç Bey and his mother is Fâika Hanım.[2]

After completing his primary education at home, he studied at Thessaloniki and Skopje High Schools and Istanbul High School and graduated from the Mülkiye Mektebi with first place in 1913. He published his first poem, titled "My Soul Embeds in My Poems" when he was 19 years old.[3] He took part in the Fecr-i Ati community for a short time. He had wide repercussions with his poem "Vatan Elegy", which he dedicated to "Namik Kemal's soul".[4]

Bibliography

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Poems

  • Miras (1927)
  • Varidat-ı Süleyman (Çedikçi Süleyman Çelebi Ruhundan İlhamlar, 1949)
  • Güneşin Ölümü (1952)

References

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  1. ^ "Cennet Capa Pocket, The Elements of Folk Literature in Five Syllables, Suleyman Demirel University Institute of Social Sciences Master's Thesis, Isparta, 2001" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2014.
  2. ^ "TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi". TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish). Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Enis Behiç Koryürek (1892–1949)". Atatürk Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish). 20 April 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  4. ^ Sözlüğü, Türk Edebiyatı İsimler. "Enis Behiç Koryürek". teis.yesevi.edu.tr. Retrieved 28 August 2021.