Makbule AbasıyanıkW
Makbule Abasıyanık

Makbule Abasıyanık was a Turkish female writer and philanthropist.

Ali Amiri (historian)W
Ali Amiri (historian)

Ali Amiri was an Ottoman historian. He worked as a finance official and used his assignments to different towns to transcribe Arabic and Turkish inscriptions that he found. He sought out local histories and old documents, both historical and poetic. Through his endeavours he built a library of rare and unpublished manuscripts. These manuscripts augmented the National Library of Istanbul.

Ahmet Refik AltınayW
Ahmet Refik Altınay

Ahmet Refik Altınay was a Turkish historian, academic, writer and poet, who gave history lectures at Darülfünun after the First World War.

Falih Rıfkı AtayW
Falih Rıfkı Atay

Falih Rıfkı Atay was a Turkish journalist, writer and politician between 1923 and 1950.

Mustafa BalelW
Mustafa Balel

Mustafa Balel is a Turkish short story writer and novelist.

Reteos BerberianW
Reteos Berberian

Reteos Berberian, also known as Reteos Perperian, was an Ottoman Armenian educator, pedagogue, principal, writer, poet, and founder of the prestigious Armenian Berberian Varjaran school.

Rıfat Osman BeyW
Rıfat Osman Bey

Rıfat Osman Bey was a Turkish physician, writer and historian, who was one of the patriarchs of the pseudoscientific Sun Language Theory.

Abdullah BozkurtW
Abdullah Bozkurt

Abdullah Bozkurt is a Turkish journalist. He was the bureau chief for the Gülen-aligned newspaper Today's Zaman.

Tarık BuğraW
Tarık Buğra

Süleyman Tarık Buğra was a Turkish journalist, novelist and short story author. He was well-known author at Republican literature in his country. He was honoured as a State Artist in 1991. Buğra is the father of scientist Ayşe Buğra.

Behçet Kemal ÇağlarW
Behçet Kemal Çağlar

Behçet Kemal Çağlar was a Turkish poet, educator and nationalist politician.

Faruk Nafiz ÇamlıbelW
Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel

Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel was a leading Turkish poet, author and later politician.

Peride CelalW
Peride Celal

Peride Celal Yönsel, commonly known as Peride Celal or Peride Celâl, was a Turkish novelist and story writer. Her work has won major awards such as the Sedat Simavi Literature Award in 1977, and the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize in 1991.

Zehra ÇırakW
Zehra Çırak

Zehra Çırak is a Turkish-German writer.

Mehmet CulumW
Mehmet Culum

Mehmet Culum is a contemporary Turkish novelist who was born in Çeşme, a town in western Turkey. He studied political sciences at the University of Ankara. Before starting an antique shop in his hometown, Culum worked as an IT consultant for some time in İzmir. After retiring in 1998, he began to explore the history of Western Turkey and especially the Çeşme Peninsula.

Ahmet Muhip DıranasW
Ahmet Muhip Dıranas

Ahmet Muhip Dıranas was a leading Turkish poet and author.

Şule GürbüzW
Şule Gürbüz

Şule Gürbüz is a Turkish author, poet and clockmaker who has worked for the Directorate of National Palaces of Turkey since 1997. Her master in antique clockmaking is Cemal Gürgen.

Hüseyin Rahmi GürpınarW
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar

Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar was a Turkish writer, civil servant, and politician.

Azmiye Hami GüvenW
Azmiye Hami Güven

Azmiye Hami Güven was a Turkish novelist. A graduate of the Kandilli Kız Lisesi, she was one of the first Turkish woman writers of the Republican period. She is best known for Hemșire Nimet 1951.

Rober HaddeciyanW
Rober Haddeciyan

Rober Haddeciyan, also known as Rober Haddeler, is an Armenian writer, playwright, and since 1967 editor-in-chief of Marmara, an Armenian-language daily newspaper.

Nevin HalıcıW
Nevin Halıcı

Nevin Halıcı is a Turkish writer and lecturer of Turkish cuisine. She has published many cookbooks mostly in Turkish.

Hasan FehmiW
Hasan Fehmi

Hasan Fehmi Bey was an Ottoman journalist, who was the editor-in-chief of Serbestî, an Ottoman newspaper owned by Mevlanzade Rifat Bey, in which he wrote articles against the newly emerging Committee of Union and Progress. He was murdered by unidentified assailants on the evening of April 6, 1909, as he was crossing the Galata Bridge in Istanbul.

Hovhannes HisarianW
Hovhannes Hisarian

Hovhannes Hisarian was an Ottoman Armenian writer, novelist, archeologist, editor, and educator. He was considered the first Armenian romantic novelist.

Yadé KaraW
Yadé Kara

Yadé Kara is a Turkish-German writer.

Diran KelekianW
Diran Kelekian

Diran Kelekian was an Ottoman Armenian journalist and professor at the Darülfünûn-u Şahâne. He was editor of two newspapers, Cihan and Sabah.

Sami KohenW
Sami Kohen

Sami Kohen is a Turkish journalist and columnist. He has written regular columns about foreign policy for Milliyet since 1954.

Cahit KülebiW
Cahit Külebi

Cahit Külebi was a leading Turkish poet and author. He has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry due to his attachment to folk poetry traditions. His poetry is enriched with simple yet ironic language, embellished with original descriptions.

Nuray LaleW
Nuray Lale

Nuray Lale is a Turkish-German writer and translator.

Behçet NecatigilW
Behçet Necatigil

Behçet Necatigil was a leading Turkish author, poet and translator.

Kegham ParseghianW
Kegham Parseghian

Kegham Parseghian, was an Armenian writer, teacher, editor, and journalist.

Levon PashalianW
Levon Pashalian

Levon Pashalian, was an Armenian short story writer, journalist, editor, novelist, and politician.

Ahmet ŞimşirgilW
Ahmet Şimşirgil

Cemal SüreyaW
Cemal Süreya

Cemâl Süreya was a Turkish poet and writer of Kurdish–Zaza descent.

Cahit Sıtkı TarancıW
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı

Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı was a Turkish poet and author.

Gegham Ter-KarapetianW
Gegham Ter-Karapetian

Gegham Ter-Karapetian (1865-1918), better known by his pen name Msho Gegham, is a renowned Armenian writer and politician.

Halid Ziya UşaklıgilW
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil

Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil was a Turkish author, poet, and playwright. A part of the Edebiyat-ı Cedide movement of the late Ottoman Empire, he was the founder of and contributor to many literary movements and institutions, including his flagship Servet-i Fünun journal. He was a strong critic of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II, which led to the censorship of much of his work by the Ottoman government. His many novels, plays, short stories, and essays include his 1899 romance novel Aşk-ı Memnu, which has been adapted into an internationally successful television series of the same name.