Asaf Halet Çelebi
Asaf Halet Çelebi (27 December 1907 – 15 October 1958) was a Turkish people, Turkish mystical poet. Although not very widely known, due to his erudite and often foreign-influenced style, he is considered to be Turkey's first surrealism, surrealist poet. Biography Çelebi was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire in 1907, as the son of Mehmet Sait Halet Bey, an official of the Ottoman Ministry of Internal Affairs. Asaf Halet's surname at birth was not Çelebi, but he adopted it due to his reverence to the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mysticism, mystic, Rumi. Descendants of Rumi established the Sufi Mevlevi Order, which they led for 800 years under the name or title Çelebi, translating to 'gentleman', 'well-mannered' or 'courteous'. Asaf Halet Çelebi, however, was not a descendant of Rumi. Çelebi studied at Galatasaray High School in Istanbul. He started his higher education at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, School of Fine Arts, which he left shortly after, and c ...
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