Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım
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Born | 1857 Nicosia, Cyprus |
Died | 1924 (aged 67) |
Occupation | Poet |
Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım (1857 – 1924) was one of the leading Turkish Cypriot poets of the nineteenth century.[1]
Biography
[edit]Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım was born in 1857 in Nicosia, Cyprus. In 1884, Nazım worked as an Ottoman official in the public service of the Ottoman Empire in Chios, Adana, Istanbul, Izmir, and Bursa. He then resigned from his duties and returned to his native Cyprus where he continued his profession in poetry.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Batislam 2007, 71.
- ^ Batislam 2007, 72.
- Batislam, Dilek (2000), Kıbrıslı Şair Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım Efendi’nin Mersiyeleri Üzerine Bir İnceleme (PDF), Eastern Mediterranean University
- Batislam, Dilek (2007), "Kıbrıslı Şair Kaytazzâde Mehmed Nâzım Efendi'nin Mevlâna'ya Yazdığı Şiirler" (PDF), Mevlâna Araştırmaları Dergisi, 1, Selçuk University: 71–82[permanent dead link]
- Nevzat, Altay (2005), Nationalism Amongst the Turks in Cyprus: The First Wave (PDF), University of Oulu, ISBN 951-42-7751-1.