Refi Cevat Ulunay ( Damascas, Syria: 1890-1968) was a

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

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writer, and a controversial journalist and novelist during the Ottoman era.

Early life and career

Ulunay was born in Ottoman

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in 1890. He began writing for numerous Ottoman newspapers on topics such as literature, culture, philosophy and the arts. He strongly criticized the

Union and Progress Party The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) ( ota, اتحاد و ترقى جمعيتی, translit=İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti, script=Arab), later the Union and Progress Party ( ota, اتحاد و ترقى فرقه‌سی, translit=İttihad ve Tera ...

between the years 1914 and 1918, and his writings opposing the

Turkish Independence War The Turkish War of Independence "War of Liberation", also known figuratively as ''İstiklâl Harbi'' "Independence War" or ''Millî Mücadele'' "National Struggle" (19 May 1919 – 24 July 1923) was a series of military campaigns waged by th ...

lead to his exile until 1938. Upon arriving in the

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, Ulunay was a columnist for the Turkish newspaper "''

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''". He also wrote several books; the themes of love and sexuality are particularly dominant in "''Köle''" (1945) and "''Eski İstanbul Yosmaları''" (1959).

References

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