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Yusuf Ziya Ortaç
Yusuf Ziya Ortaç (23 April 1895 – 11 March 1967) was a Turkish people, Turkish poet, writer, literature teacher, publisher and politician. He is from the group called ''Beş Hececiler'' in Turkish poetry and is one of the important humor writers of Turkish literature. Together with Orhon Seyfi, one of the members of the Beş Hececiler group, he introduced ''Akbaba (periodical), Akbaba'', the political humor magazine, which has an important place in Turkish magazine history, and gained a large fan base with his articles in this magazine. He is a politician who served as a Member of Parliament for Ordu Province. Biography He was born in 1895 in Istanbul, Beylerbeyi district. His father is engineer Süleyman Sâmi Bey, son of Hoca Hasan Efendi, one of the notables of Konya, and his mother is Huriye Hanım, the daughter of İzzet Bey from İzmir. He studied at Vefa High School in Istanbul. He started poetry in high school with the prosody meter. His first poem was published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantinople
Constantinople (#Names of Constantinople, see other names) was a historical city located on the Bosporus that served as the capital of the Roman Empire, Roman, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine, Latin Empire, Latin, and Ottoman Empire, Ottoman empires between its consecration in 330 until 1930, when it was renamed to Istanbul. Initially as New Rome, Constantinople was founded in 324 during the reign of Constantine the Great on the site of the existing settlement of Byzantium, and shortly thereafter in 330 became the capital of the Roman Empire. Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the late 5th century, Constantinople remained the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (also known as the Byzantine Empire; 330–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922). Following the Turkish War of Independence, the Turkish capital then moved to Ankara. Although the city had been known as Istanbul since 1453, it was officially renamed as Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Türk Yurdu
''Türk Yurdu'' is a monthly Turkish magazine that was first published on the 30 November 1911. It was an important magazine propagating Pan-Turkism. It was founded by Yusuf Akçura, Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Ali bey Huseynzade, Ali Hüseynzade. Ziya Gökalp said: "all Turkists... met and worked together in the ''Türk Yurdu'' and ''Türk Ocağı'' ambiance." The magazine was one of the early Turkish periodicals which featured articles on folklore. Yusuf Akçura was editor of the magazine from 1911 to 1917. From 11 April 1913, a weekly named ''Halka Doğru'' was published in Istanbul as a supplement to the ''Türk Yurdu''. ''Halka Doğru'' closed in April 1914, but its editor, Celal Sahir, began publishing another weekly supplement to the ''Türk Yurdu'', the ''Türk Sözü'', on 13 April 1914. In 1917, the management of the magazine passed to Celal Sahir, and in August 1918 ''Türk Yurdu'' was closed due to financial reasons. In 1924 it was relaunched in Ankara as an organ of the Turkish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam troops launch ''Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts, in an attempt to eliminate the Iron Triangle (Vietnam), Iron Triangle. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 15 – Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species ''Proconsul nyanzae, Kenyapithecus africanus''. * January 23 ** In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison. ** Milton Keynes in England is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895 Births
Events January * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of treason. * January 6 – The Wilcox rebellion, an attempt led by Robert Wilcox to overthrow the Republic of Hawaii and restore the Kingdom of Hawaii, begins with royalist troops landing at Waikiki Beach in O'ahu and clashing with republican defenders. The rebellion ends after three days and the remaining 190 royalists are taken prisoners of war. * January 12 – Britain's National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. * January 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. * January 15 – A warehouse fire and dynamite explosion kills 57 people, including 13 firefighters in Butt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
The Zincirlikuyu Cemetery () is a modern burial ground in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey. It is administered by the Metropolitan Municipality. Many prominent figures from the world of politics, business, sports and arts rest here. The cemetery is located on the Büyükdere Avenue in Zincirlikuyu, Şişli district between Esentepe and Levent neighborhoods. It is Istanbul's first cemetery established in a contemporary structure. Planned in 1935, the burial place reached in the 1950s to its boundaries of today. It has an area of , which is full, excluding family graves. A mosque within the cemetery, built and donated by the Turkish entrepreneur İbrahim Bodur, was opened to service on 2 April 2004. The mosque is specially constructed for burial prayers, and has a capacity of 500 people. The office of the İstanbul Cemeteries Administration is located in the building at the entrance of the cemetery. Over the gate of the cemetery a Ayah, verse from the Qur'an reminds "''Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Ay
''Her Ay'' (Turkish: "Every month") was a Turkish magazine published monthly in Istanbul between March 1937 and March 1938. It was established by Orhan Seyfi Orhon (1890-1972) and Yusuf Ziya Ortaç (1895-1967). A total of seven issues featured contributions from major Turkish writers, such as Hilmi Ziya Ülken, Mustafa Şekip Tunç (1886-1958), Hasan Ali Yücel (1897-1961), and Sabahattin Ali Sabahattin Ali (25 February 1907 – 2 April 1948) was a Turkish people, Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. Early life He was born in 1907 in Ardino, Eğridere township (now Ardino in southern Bulgaria) of the San ... (1907-1948). Due to its content, the periodical is one of the most important of its time. References 1937 establishments in Turkey 1938 disestablishments in Turkey Defunct literary magazines published in Turkey Magazines established in 1937 Magazines disestablished in 1938 Magazines published in Istanbul Turkish-language magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orhan Seyfi Orhon
Orhan Ghazi (; , also spelled Orkhan; died 1362) was the second sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1323/4 to 1362. He was born in Söğüt, as the son of Osman I. In the early stages of his reign, Orhan focused his energies on conquering most of northwestern Anatolia. The majority of these areas were under Byzantine rule and he won his first battle at Pelekanon against the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos. Orhan also occupied the lands of the Karasids of Balıkesir and the Ahis of Ankara. A series of civil wars surrounding the ascension of the nine-year-old Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos greatly benefited Orhan. In the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347, the regent John VI Kantakouzenos married his daughter Theodora to Orhan and employed Ottoman warriors against the rival forces of the empress dowager, allowing them to loot Thrace. In the Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357, Kantakouzenos used Ottoman forces against John V, granting them the use of a European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedat Simavi
Sedat Simavi (1896 – 11 December 1953) was a Turkish journalist, writer and film director. He established many newspapers and magazines. Biography Simavi was born in 1896. His grandfather and uncles served in different positions in the office of Ottoman Sultans. His parents were Halil Hamdi Bey and Aliye Hanım. She was granddaughter of Grand Vizier Saffet Pasha. Simavi graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1912. In 1916 Simavi started his first publication entitled '' Hande'', a weekly women's magazine. Then he launched a satirical magazine, '' Diken'' and another women's magazine '' İnci''. His first daily newspaper was '' Dersaadet'' which was established in 1920. The other papers established by Simavi included '' Payihat'', '' Güleryüz'', '' Yedigün'' and '' Resimli Gazete''. Simavi co-founded the Turkish Journalists' Association in 1946, and the ''Hürriyet'' newspaper in 1948. He was also a political cartoonist, and as well as plays and screenplays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diken (magazine)
''Diken'' (Ottoman Turkish: ''Thorn'') was a weekly satirical magazine which was published in the period 1918–1920 in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. It was one of the publications which were founded by Sedat Simavi, a well-known Turkish journalist. The magazine was one of the first Ottoman satirical publications which featured color cartoons. History and profile ''Diken'' was established by Sedat Simavi in 1918 as a bimonthly magazine. Zekeriya Sertel was another founder of the magazine. Istanbul was under the occupation of Allied forces following World War I when the first issue appeared on 30 October. Over time the frequency of ''Diken'' was switched to weekly. The magazine targeted the educated Ottoman intellectuals. Its focus was on the political criticism, and it did not overtly support the independence movement led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. It featured poems by Yusuf Ziya Ortaç Yusuf Ziya Ortaç (23 April 1895 – 11 March 1967) was a Turkish people, Turkish poet, wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
