People
Writers
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Person · Istanbul
Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak and Turkey: the novelist of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul, the Istanbul and Konya of…
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Person · Istanbul
Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's first Nobel laureate: the Istanbul novelist of My Name Is Red and Snow, who turned The Museum of Innocence…
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Person · Istanbul
Nâzım Hikmet
Nâzım Hikmet, Turkey's most translated modern poet: a naval cadet turned communist who spent years in prison, died in Moscow and regained…
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Person · Istanbul
Evliya Çelebi
The 17th-century Ottoman traveler whose ten-volume Book of Travels gave us the flying man of Galata Tower and countless stories of the…
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Person · Central Anatolia
Rumi (Mevlana)
Rumi, the 13th-century Sufi poet of Konya: his life, Shams of Tabriz, the Masnavi, the whirling dervishes and where to visit his…
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Person · Black Sea
Strabo
Strabo of Amaseia, the ancient geographer born in today's Amasya: schooled in Nysa and Rome, he traveled from the Black Sea to…
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Person · Aegean
Herodotus
Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the Father of History: born around 484 BC in today's Bodrum, probably of Carian descent, he traveled from Egypt…
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Person · Central Anatolia
Yunus Emre
Yunus Emre, the 13th-century dervish poet who wrote of divine love in the everyday Turkish of Anatolia, and whose tomb at least…
