About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Turkish people of Circassian descent, Mehmed VI, Nazım Hikmet, Hadise, Mehmet Oz, Kazım Karabekir, Halide Edip Adıvar, Turkan Şoray, Abdulmecid I, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Hussein Onn, Hamit Kaplan, Abdulhak Hamid Tarhan, Azra Akın, Setenay Ozbek, Mustafa Akyol, Deniz Baykal, Murat Bardakcı, Cem Ozdemir, Suleyman Seba, Irf Temrjukovna Oruc, Erdinc Tekir, Mahmut Atalay, Rasim Kara, Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Celal Atik, Rauf Orbay, Fahri Koruturk, Orhan Boran, Can Bartu, Meltem Cumbul, Yaşar Doğu, Cerkes Ethem, Ozdemiroğlu Osman Pasha, Tayfur Havutcu, Ali Fethi Okyar, Omer Seyfettin, Asuman Krause, Sinan Albayrak, Gazanfer Bilge, Pelin Batu, Erdal Keser, Oğuz Cetin, Abdullatif Şener, Nazım Ekren, Khaireddin, Tevfik Esenc, Gulse Birsel, Kenan Işık, Sultana, Keriman Halis Ece, Doğan Kuban, Ediz Hun, Sanem Celik, Mehmet Aslantuğ, Deniz Akkaya, Onder Sav, Nefise Karatay, Guven Kırac. Excerpt: Nazım Hikmet Ran (born January 17, 1902 in Salonica, Ottoman Empire (present-day Thessaloniki) - died June 3, 1963 in Moscow, Soviet Union), commonly known as Nazım Hikmet (Turkish pronunciation: ), was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements." Described as a "romantic communist" and "romantic revolutionary," he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages. He came from a cosmopolitan and distinguished family of Turkish, Polish and Circassian ancestry, his father Hikmet Bey was the son of Mehmed Nazım Pasha and his mother Celile Hanım was the grand-daughter of Mehmed Ali Pasha, who was of German origin. His maternal great-grandfather, Mustafa Celaleddin Pasha, (former Konstantin Polkozic-Borzecki 1826-1876)...
