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Emre (surname)
Emre is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Erhan Emre (born 1978), Turkish-German actor, director, producer, and writer * Merve Emre, Turkish-American author, academic, and literary critic * Yunus Emre (1238–1328), Turkish poet and mystic *Ahmet Cevat Emre Ahmet Cevat Emre (1876–1961) was a Turkish journalist and linguist. He was a member of the Turkish Language Association (TDK) and involved in the latinization of the Turkish alphabet. He also served as a deputy for Çanakkale Province, Çanakka ... (1876-1961) Turkish linguist {{Surname, Emre Turkish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erhan Emre
Erhan Emre (born 4 September 1978) is a Turkish–German actor, director, film producer and writer. Filmography Television Director Producer Personal life Emre was born to kurdish immigrants in Germany, he is one of eight children. References External links * 1978 births German people of Turkish descent German male television actors Living people Male actors from Berlin German male film actors {{Turkey-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merve Emre
Merve Emre is a Turkish-American author, academic, and literary critic. She is the author of nonfiction books ''Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America'' (2017) and ''The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing'' (2018), and has published essays and articles in ''The Atlantic'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', and other publications. In 2023, Emre was named the Shapiro-Silverberg University Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University as well as director of the school's Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Early life Emre was born in Adana, Turkey. She graduated in 2003 from Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School in Port Washington, New York. Career After graduating in 2007 from Harvard, where she concentrated in government, Emre worked for six months as a marketing consultant at Bain & Company. Emre says that she was a "terrible consultant" and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yunus Emre
Yunus Emre () also known as Derviş Yunus (Yunus the Dervish) (1238–1328) (Old Anatolian Turkish: يونس امره) was a Turkish folk poet and Islamic Sufi mystic who greatly influenced Turkish culture. His name, ''Yunus'', is the Muslim equivalent to the English name ''Jonah''. He wrote in Old Anatolian Turkish, an early stage of Turkish. The UNESCO General Conference unanimously passed a resolution declaring 1991, the 750th anniversary of the poet's birth, International Yunus Emre Year. Biography Yunus Emre has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature from his own day until the present, because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmed Yesevi and Sultan Walad, one of the first known poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic. His diction remains very close to the popular speech of the people in Central and Western Anatolia. This is also the language of a number of anonymous folk-poets, folk-songs, fairy tales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmet Cevat Emre
Ahmet Cevat Emre (1876–1961) was a Turkish journalist and linguist. He was a member of the Turkish Language Association (TDK) and involved in the latinization of the Turkish alphabet. He also served as a deputy for Çanakkale Province, Çanakkale in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Early life and education Emre was born on Crete, which at the time was within the Ottoman Empire. He later moved to Istanbul where he attended the Kuleli Military High School and later also the Ottoman Military College. He was expected to have successful career in the Military of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Military, but was imprisoned and exiled to Tripoli, Libya in 1895. In Tripolitania he became familiar with philosopher Herbert Spencers' "First Principles". He later was able to escape to Europe, and was able to return to Istanbul after the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 and joined the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). Professional career He wrote a booklet on the Ottoman language f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
