Fazıl Ahmet Aykaç (24 July 1884, in

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 empire ...

– 5 December 1967) was a Turkish poet, educator, civil servant, government minister and politician.

Biography

Fazıl Ahmet's civil service life starts just before the

Second Constitutional Era The Second Constitutional Era (; ) was the period of restored parliamentary rule in the Ottoman Empire between the 1908 Young Turk Revolution and the 1920 retraction of the constitution, after the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies, during the ...

. He worked in the Nazaread Mekâtib-i Ecnebiyye (Ministry of Education). After the Second Constitutional Era, he started to teach in the Dâr'ül-Muallimîn-i Âliye with the proposal of the Ministry of Education. He followed this up with teaching at various local and foreign schools in Constantinople. In the same period he was among the contributors of ''

Mehâsin ''Mehâsin'' (Ottoman Turkish: ''Virtues'') was a monthly women's magazine which was published in the Ottoman Empire between 1908 and 1909. It was one of the publications started in the aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution and was subtitled as ...

'', a monthly women's magazine. In 1918, after a short time working in the Düyûn-ı Umumiye (

Ottoman Public Debt Administration The Ottoman Public Debt Administration (OPDA) (, or simply ''Düyun-u Umumiye'' as it was popularly known, , ), was a European-controlled organization that was established in 1881 to collect the payments which the Ottoman Empire owed to European ...

), he returned to work as an educator. Fazıl Ahmet has taught various courses such as

Turkish literature Turkish literature () comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Turkish language. The Ottoman form of Turkish, which forms the basis of much of the written corpus, was highly influenced by Persian and Arabic literature,Bertold Sp ...

, ethics, philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, French and translation. He died in 1967.

References

1884 births 1967 deaths Politicians from Istanbul Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians {{authority control