* Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu, journalist

He was awarded the Yunus Nadi Prize in 1991, the Behcet Necatigil Poetry Prize in 2004, and the Dionysos Prize in 2005.

Cumhuriyet () is a centre-left Turkish daily newspaper, founded on May 7, 1924 by journalist Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu.

Following the death of Yunus Nadi on March 28, 1945 in Geneva, Switzerland, Cumhuriyet was owned by his eldest son Nadir Nadi until his death on August 20, 1991.

Derviş Zaim ( born Derviş Zaimağaoğlu in 1964 in Famagusta, Cyprus ) is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for Elephants and Grass ( 2000 ) and Dot ( 2008 ); Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Somersault in a Coffin ( 1996 ); and the Yunus Nadi literary prize for his debut novel Ares in Wonderland ( 1995 ).

His first novel, Ares in Wonderland ( 1995 ), won the prestigious Yunus Nadi literary prize in Turkey.

Thirteenth-century Turkish sufi poet Yunus Emre explained this philosophy as " Yaratılanı severiz, Yaratandan ötürü " or We love the creature, because of The Creator.

Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Walad, one of the first known poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction remains very close to the popular speech of his contemporaries in Central and Western Anatolia.

Like the Oghuz Book of Dede Korkut, an older and anonymous Central Asian epic, the Turkish folklore that inspired Yunus Emre in his occasional use of tekerlemeler as a poetic device had been handed down orally to him and his contemporaries.

Yunus Emre's portrait is depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 200 lira banknote issued in 2009.

* Yunus Emre, Turkish poet and sufi mystic

File: Yunus Emre Mosque, Genk. jpg |' Turkish day ' outside the ' Yunus Emre Camii ' ( mosque )

Several important Ottoman-era poets were Bektashis, and Yunus Emre, the most acclaimed poet of the Turkish language, is generally recognized as a subscriber to the Bektashi order.

Traditional examples for Turkish folk literature include the stories of Karagöz and Hacivat, Keloğlan, İncili Çavuş and Nasreddin Hoca, as well as the works of folk poets such as Yunus Emre and Aşık Veysel.

The development of folk poetry in Turkish — which began to emerge in the 13th century with such important writers as Yunus Emre, Sultan Veled, and Şeyyâd Hamza — was given a great boost when, on 13 May 1277, Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey declared Turkish the official state language of Anatolia's powerful Karamanid state ; subsequently, many of the tradition's greatest poets would continue to emerge from this region.

The Sufi influence, for instance, can be seen clearly not only in the tales concerning Nasreddin but also in the works of Yunus Emre, a towering figure in Turkish literature and a poet who lived at the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, probably in the Karamanid state in south-central Anatolia.

It is, however, important to note that in Turkish culture, such a neat division into Sufi and Shi ' a is scarcely possible: for instance, Yunus Emre is considered by some to have been an Alevi, while the entire Turkish aşık / ozan tradition is permeated with the thought of the Bektashi Sufi order, which is itself a blending of Shi ' a and Sufi concepts.

The development of folk poetry in Turkish — which began to emerge in the 13th century with such important writers as Yunus Emre, Sultan Veled, and Şeyyâd Hamza — was given a great boost when, on 13 May 1277, Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey declared Turkish the official state language of Anatolia's powerful Karamanid state ; subsequently, many of the tradition's greatest poets would continue to emerge from this region.

There is little remaining of historical significance in the area: what there is includes a cistern ( Fildamı Sarnıcı ), a powder house from the 17th century ( today used as Yunus Emre Kültür Merkezi in Ataköy ), the Greek Orthodox church of Saint George ( consecrated on May 2, 1832 ) and a Greek school, the central mosque and fountain of 1875, an Armenian Church and school and the resting place of the Muslim saint Zuhurat Baba, a Turkish soldier who died during the conquest of Constantinople.

His books in English include two collections of his poems (" Shadows of Love ", published in Canada, and " A Last Lullaby ", published in the United States ), Contemporary Turkish Literature, Modern Turkish Drama, Living Poets of Turkey, three books of the 13th century Anatolian mystic folk poet Yunus Emre, Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes ( with Metin And ), Suleiman the Magnificent-Poet, Turkish Legends and Folk poems, Tales of Nasreddin Hodja, and others.

Over the course of the last decade Professor Halman, together with his daughter Defne Halman, has presented many readings of Poems by the 13th-century Turkish ' Ur-poet ' Yunus Emre ( born 1321 ).

* Founder of Cumhuriyet newspaper and key supporter of AtatürkYunus Nadi Abalıoğlu, and his son Nadir Nadi Abalıoğlu, from Fethiye.

* 1929 – Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist ( d. 1979 )

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* 1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.

* 1925 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, Prime Minister of Turkey ( d. 2006 )

Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born January 9, 1958 ) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on February 1, 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison.

* Adnan Veli ( 1916 – 1972 ), Turkish journalist, brother of poet Orhan Veli

* Nuray Mert ( born 1960 ), Turkish journalist and political scientist

Wolfowitz was on the endowment's board — which is how Riza first met him, according to Turkish journalist Cengiz Candar, a friend of the couple.

* Ali Kemal Bey, Turkish journalist, newspaper editor and poet

* Turkish journalist Uğur Mumcu of Cumhuriyet had been involved in several high profile and sensitive investigations before his murder in 1993, such as the Kurdish Worker's Party's ties to intelligence, Iranian support for the Kurdish Hezbollah, and even the background of Pope John Paul II's assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca.

* Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist

* Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist

Most residents prefer to watch Turkish television as opposed to Nakhchivan television, which one Azerbaijani journalist criticised as " a propaganda vehicle for Talibov and the Aliyevs.

The leftists also are very critical of the party's continuous opposition to the removal of Article 301 of Turkish penal code ; which caused people to be prosecuted for " insulting Turkishness " including Nobel Winner author Orhan Pamuk, Elif Şafak, and the conviction of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, its attitude towards the minorities in Turkey, as well as its Cyprus policy.

The machine consisted of a life-sized model of a human head and torso, with a black beard and grey eyes, and dressed in Turkish robes and a turban – " the traditional costume ", according to journalist and author Tom Standage, " of an oriental sorcerer.

Namık Kemal was a prominent Turkish poet, novelist, playwright and journalist of the late 19th century Ottoman Empire.

Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several different genres simultaneously: for instance, the poet Nâmık Kemal also wrote the important 1876 novel İntibâh ( Awakening ), while the journalist Şinasi is noted for writing, in 1860, the first modern Turkish play, the one-act comedy " Şair Evlenmesi " ( The Poet's Marriage ).

Burak Eldem ( born 1961 ) is a Turkish writer / researcher, a former radio and TV programmer, web developer and journalist.

Turkish journalist and researcher Dursun Özden has made a documentary revealing the world ’ s oldest waterways and historical water structures in Anatolia during a six-month visit to 66 Turkish provinces.

The world ’ s oldest water structures in Anatolia are the subject of a new documentary series by Turkish journalist and writer Dursun Özden.

* Agah Efendi ( 1832 – 1885 ), journalist, publisher of the first Turkish newspaper

* Murat Bardakçı, Turkish journalist

Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several different genres simultaneously: for instance, the poet Nâmık Kemal ( 1840 – 1888 ) also wrote the important 1876 novel İntibâh ( انتباه ; " Awakening "), while the journalist İbrahim Şinasi ( 1826 – 1871 ) is noted for writing, in 1860, the first modern Turkish play, the one-act comedy " Şair Evlenmesi " ( شاعر اولنمسى ; " The Poet's Marriage ").