Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (also rendered Yakub Kadri; ; 27 March 1889 – 13 December 1974) was a Turkish

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Biography

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, was born in

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on 27 March 1889. He was the son of Abdul Kadir Bey, a member of the Karaosmanoğlu family which started to gain a reputation in the 17th century around the

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region. His mother was İkbal Hanım, a woman in Ismail Pasha's palace community. Until the age of six, he was raised in Cairo, after which his family moved to their homeland,

. He completed his primary education in Manisa, and in 1903, the family moved to

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. Karaosmanoğlu was one of the contributors of '' İkdam'' during the

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and after the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, a representative of Manisa to the Grand National Assembly from 1931 to 1934. Karaosmanoğlu was the founding editor-in-chief of '' Tan newspaper'' which was launched in 1935 and served in the post until 1938. Then until 1955, he served as an ambassador of

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in various European and Middle Eastern capitals. Following his return to Turkey, he served as the editor of '' Ulus'' in 1957. In 1961, he was a representative of the constituent assembly of the

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following the 1960 coup d'état. His last political position was again as a representative of Manisa to the Grand National Assembly from 1961 to 1965. In 1966, he was elected chairman of the

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. Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu died at the Gülhane Military Medical Academy in Ankara on 13 December 1974. He was buried next to his mother's tomb in in

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Works

Yakup Kadri's first work was published in 1913. His

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'' Yaban'' (''Stranger'',

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) depicts the bitter experiences of a Turkish intellectual, Ahmed Celal, in the countryside after losing his arm in the Battle of Gallipoli. Though categorized as naturalist, the novel has a romantic, anti-pastoral quality. His novel ''Panorama'' analyzes the political, social, and economical changes during the transition period from the

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to the Turkish Republic. It is considered to be a "generation novel" as the story is based on the lives of several generations of the same family during this transitional period. The novel is written entirely in Turkish. He was one of the theorists of the Kadro movement and among the founders of ''Kadro'' magazine.

Personal life

Karaosmanoğlu married Ayşe Leman Karaosmanoğlu who was a daughter of Mehmed Asaf Paşa, an Ottoman pasha. Burhan Belge was Leman's brother, and her nephew is Turkish author Murat Belge.

Bibliography

* "''Bir Serencam''" (An Event or Result) (1913) * "''Kiralık Konak''" (The Rented Mansion) (1922) * "''Nur Baba''" (Baba Nur) (1922) * "''Rahmet''" (Mercy) (1923) * "''Hüküm Gecesi''" (Night of Verdict) (1927) * "''Sodom ve Gomore''" (Sodom and Gomorrah) (1928) * "'' Yaban''" (A Wild One) (1932) * "''Ankara''" (1934) * "''Ahmet Haşim''" (1934) * "''Bir Sürgün''" (An Exile ) (1937) * "''Atatürk''" (1946) * "''Panorama 1''" (1950) * "''Panorama 2''" (1954) * "''Zoraki Diplomat''" (Forced Diplomat) (1954) * "''Hep O Şarkı''" (Always The Same Song)([1956) * "''Anamın Kitabı''" (The Book of My Mother) (1957) * "''Vatan Yolunda''" (On The Path of the Nation (1958) * "''Politikada 45 Yıl''" (1968) * "''Gençlik ve Edebiyat Hatıraları''" (Memoirs of Youth and Literature) (1969)

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