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Al-Farabi

Al-Farabi (/ˌælfəˈrɑːbi/; Arabic: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد فارابی Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Al Fārābī;, known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872[2] in Fārāb – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus), Born c. 872 Fārāb on the Jaxartes (Syr Darya) in modern Kazakhstan or Faryāb in Khorāsān (modern day Afghanistan) and Died in Damascus, Syria
He was a renowned philosopher and jurist who wrote in the fields of political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and logic. He was also a scientist, cosmologist, mathematician and music scholar.
In Arabic philosophical tradition, he is known with the honorific "the Second Master", after Aristotle. He is credited with preserving the original Greek texts during the Middle Ages because of his c

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Con Sinov

Con Sinov is a pseudonym for a Turkish writer, who uses this name for his books and on his social profile on X (Twitter). His name Con Sinov is a Turkish writing of the fictional character named Jon Snow from George R.R. Martins book series "A Song of Ice and Fire" which the tv-series Game of thrones also is based on. There is not known many information or pictures of Con Sinov.

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24, but resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Genevan philosopher and writer Jean Jacques Rousseau held that society usually corrupts the essentially good individual; his works include The Social Contract and Émile (both 1762).

This important figure in the history contributed to political and moral psychology and influenced later thinkers. Own firmly negative view saw the post-hoc rationalizers of self-interest, apologists for various forms of tyranny, as playing a role in the modern alienation from natural impulse of humanity to compassion. The concern to find a way of preserving human freedom in a world of increasingly dependence for the satisfaction of their needs dominates work. This concerns a material dimension and a more important psychological dimensions. Rousseau a fact

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig (then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; present day Gdańsk, Poland) and was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer attempted to make his career as an academic by correcting and expanding Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world.

He was the son of author Johanna Schopenhauer and the older brother of Adele Schopenhauer.

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Victor Hugo

After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.

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Michael Ende

Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German writer of fantasy and children's literature. He was the son of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende.

Ende was one of the most popular and famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's books. However, Ende was not strictly a children’s author, as he also wrote books for adults. Ende claimed, "It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell my stories," and that "[my books are] for any child between 80 and 8 years" (qtd. Senick 95, 97). Ende’s writing could be described as a surreal mixture of reality and fantasy. The reader is often invited to take a more interactive role in the story, and the worlds in his books often mirror our reality, using

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1532-1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers the world over, from William Shakespeare to René Descartes, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Stephan Zweig, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He was a conservative and earnest Catholic but, as a result of his anti-dogmatic cast of mind, he is consi

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Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freu

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Sabahattin Ali

Sabahattin Ali (February 25, 1907 – April 2, 1948) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.

He was born in 1907 in Eğridere township (now Ardino in southern Bulgaria) of the Sanjak of Gümülcine (now Komotini in northern Greece), in the Ottoman Empire. He lived in Istanbul, Çanakkale and Edremit before he entered the School of Education in Balıkesir. Then, he was transferred to the School of Education in Istanbul, where he graduated in 1926. After serving as a teacher in Yozgat for one year, he earned a fellowship from the Ministry of National Education and studied in Germany from 1928 to 1930. When he returned to Turkey, he taught German language in high schools at Aydın and Konya.

While he was serving as a teacher in

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.

George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .

With this key figure of German literature, th

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Şevket Süreyya Aydemir

Şevket Süreyya Aydemir was a Turkish writer, intellectual, economist, historian, and one of the founders, publisher and a key theorist of Kadro ("Cadre"), an influential left-wing political journal published in Turkey from 1932 to 1934.

Aydemir was a prolific writer. His most famous work was İnkılap ve Kadro ("Revolution and the Cadre"), published in 1932, where he outlined his theory of political economy presented in the Kadro journal. He published his memoirs, Suyu Arayan Adam ("The Man Searching for Water") in 1959. Between 1963 and 1965, he published Tek Adam ("The Single Man"), a three volume tome on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He also published a biography of İsmet İnönü titled Ikinci Adam ("The Second Man").

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Sait Faik Abasıyanık

Sait Faik Abasıyanık (18 November 1906 - 11 May 1954) was one of the greatest Turkish writers of short stories and poetry. Born in Adapazarı, he was educated at the Istanbul Erkek Lisesi. He enrolled in the Turcology Department of Istanbul University in 1928, but under pressure from his father went to Switzerland to study economics in 1930. He left school and lived for three years in Grenoble, France - an experience which made a deep impact on his art and character. After returning to Turkey he taught Turkish in Halıcıoğlu Armenian School for Orphans, and tried to follow his father's wishes and go into business but was unsuccessful. He devoted his life to writing after 1934. He created a brand new language and brought new life to Turkish sh

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İhsan Oktay Anar

Türk yazardır. Lisans, master ve doktora eğitimini Ege Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü'nde yaptı. Aynı okulda öğretim üyeliğinden emekli olmuştur.

Her bir kitabının çok uzun araştırmalardan sonra yazıldığı içerdikleri ağır tarihi bilgi ile göze çarpar. Eserleri pek çok küçük hikâye etrafında örülmüş büyük bir roman biçimindedir.

Yazın biçim göndermeler içerir. Kabaca birkaç örnek vermek gerekirse Amat'taki İsrafil adlı çocuğun gemi borazancısı olup diriliş düdüğünü çalışı islamiyette kıyamet haberi olan borazanı çalacak meleğe, alt ambar toprak altına ve mezara göndermeler ya da modellemelerdir. Bu üslup okuyucuyu hem yetiştirir, hem geliştirir. Umberto Eco bu biçimde gelişen okuru ampirik okurdan ayırmaktadır. Her gerçek yazar aslında bu tip inc

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Halide Edib Adıvar

Halide Edib Adıvar was a Turkish novelist and feminist political leader. She was best known for her novels criticizing the low social status of Turkish women and what she saw as the disinterest of most women in changing their situation. She also served as a soldier in the Turkish military during the Turkish War of Independence.

Her father was a secretary of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II. She and her family were affiliated with the Dönmeh, a group that publicly practiced Islam but secretly practiced a form of Judaism called Sabbateanism. Edip was educated at home by private tutors from whom she learned European and Ottoman literature, religion, philosophy, sociology, piano, English, French, and Arabic. She learned Greek from her neighbors

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Ferenc Molnár

Ferenc Molnár (Americanized name: Franz Molnar) was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. During the World War II he emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazi persecution of Hungarian Jews.

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Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Leblanc (1864 - 1941) was a French novelist, best known as the creator of gentleman thief (later detective) Arsène Lupin.

Leblanc began as a journalist, until he was asked to write a short story filler, and created, more gallant and dashing than English counterpart Sherlock Holmes.

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Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (1477-1535), venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was a councillor to Henry VIII and also served as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532.

More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. He also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary ideal island nation. More opposed the King's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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İlber Ortaylı

İlber Ortaylı (born 21 May 1947), is a leading Turkish historian, professor of history at the Galatasaray University in Istanbul and at Bilkent University in Ankara. Since 2005 he has been the head of the Topkapı Museum in Istanbul.

As the son of a Crimean Tatar family who fled Joseph Stalin's persecution and deportation, he was born in a refugee camp in Bregenz, Austria on 21 May 1947 and came to Turkey when he was 2 years old. Ortaylı attended elementary school and St. George's Austrian High School in İstanbul and then Ankara Atatürk High School. He graduated from Ankara University Mekteb-i Mülkiye (Faculty of Political Science) and completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Chicago under Professor Halil İnalcık and at the Uni

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Falih Rıfkı Atay

Atatürk üzerine çalışmalarıyla tanınmış gazeteci, yazar Falih Rıfkı Atay 1894'te İstanbul'da doğmuştur. Öğrenimini İstanbul Edebiyat Fakültesi'nde yaptı. 1908 devriminden sonra "Tanin" gazetesinde gazeteciliğe başladı. Bir yandan gazetelere, dergilere yazılar yazıyor, bir yandan da Babiâli Mektubi Kalemi'ne devam ediyordu (1913). Bir süre sonra, oradan Dahiliye Hususi Kalemi'ne kâtip olarak geçti. Falih Rıfkı Atay Birinci Dünya Savaşı'na yedek subay olarak katıldı. Bir süre sonra 4. Ordu Komutanı Cemal Paşa'nın emir subayı olarak, Kudüs'te ve Suriye'de bulundu. Bu arada, resmi görevle birtakım Avrupa yolculuklarına da katıldı. Savaş sona erince, Bahriye Hususi Kalem Müdür muavinliğine atandı. O sıralarda iki arkadaşıyla birlikte "Akşam" gaz

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Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar

Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar was a Turkish writer and politician.

Gürpınar was the son of a family close to the Ottoman court, born in Istanbul. Having lost his mother at an early age, he was sent to Crete where his father was an Ottoman civil servant, however he was soon sent back to Istanbul, where he was brought up by his aunts and grandmothers in Istanbul.

Gürpınar started writing fiction at an early age. He became a civil servant, then a writer and journalist. He later served as a member of parliament in the early years of the Turkish Republic between 1935 and 1943.

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Muallim Naci

Muallim Naci (Ottoman Turkish: معلّم ناجى), literally "Naci The Teacher" (b. 1850 – d. 12 April 1893), was an Ottoman writer, poet, educator and literary critic.

He lived during the reform-oriented Tanzimat period of the Ottoman Empire and advocated modernization without breaking ties with the old. He contributed in criticisms about both the prose and the poetry, and acquired a special place in Turkish literature and society by studying problems and providing ideas that would affect the Turkish people. His work Lugat-i Nâcî, an Ottoman Turkish dictionary, is of major importance.

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Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED Global speaker, each time receivin

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Zülfü Livaneli

Müzisyen, Yazar, Yönetmen, Politikacı.

Tam adı Ömer Zülfü Livaneli’dir. 1946 yılında Konya-Ilgın’da doğan Livaneli, yazarlık kimliğinin yanında saygın bir müzisyendir. Müziği ile birçok ulusal ve uluslararası ödül almış ve eserleri John Baez, Maria Farandouri gibi sanatçılar tarafından yorumlanmıştır. Kültür, sanat ve politika alanında Türkiye’nin önemli isimlerinden birisi olan sanatçı, sanat yaşamı boyunca 300’e yakın besteye ve 30 film müziğine imzasını attı.

Bugüne kadar üç uzun metrajlı film yönetti; "Yer Demir Gök Bakır", "Sis" ve "Şahmeran". Valencia Film Festivali'nde "Altın Palmiye" ve 1989'da Montpelier Film Festivali'nde "Altın Antigone" ödülüne layık görüldü. "Sis", "En iyi Avrupa Film Ödülü"ne aday gösterildi. Sanatçının filmleri

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Kâzım Karabekir

(23 Temmuz 1882, İstanbul – 26 Ocak 1948, Ankara) Baba mesleğini seçerek askeri öğrenim gördü. 1902’de Harbiye Mektebi’ni, 1905’te Erkân-ı Harbiye Mektebi’ni birincilikle bitirdi ve kurmay yüzbaşı oldu. Kurmay stajını Manastır’da Üçüncü Ordu emrinde tamamladı. 1907’de Enver Bey (Paşa) ile birlikte İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti’nin Manastır şubesini kurdu. 1909’da, 31 Mart Olayı patlak verince, Hareket Ordusu’nun İkinci Tümen kurmay başkanı olarak isyanın bastırılmasında görev aldı. 1912’de binbaşı rütbesiyle Balkan Savaşı’na katıldı. 1914’te yarbaylığa, 1915’te albaylığa, 1918’de mirlivalığa (tuğ-tümgeneral) yükseldi. 2 Mart 1919’da Erzurum’daki 15. Kolordu komutanlığına atandı ve Milli Mücadele hareketine katılan ilk komutanlardan biri oldu.

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Talât Paşa

Mehmed Talât, Osmanlı Hürriyet Cemiyeti'nin kurucu lideri ve İttihat ve Terakki’nin kurucularından ve önde gelen liderlerinden olan Osmanlı devlet adamıdır. 1908 ihtilâlinin hazırlanmasında önemli rol oynayan Talat Bey, 1908-1918 arasında Osmanlı Devleti siyasetine yön veren en önemli aktörlerden biri olmuştur.

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Uğur Mumcu

Uğur Mumcu was an intrepid Turkish Kemalist intellectual, investigative journalist and columnist for the leading Kemalist broadsheet, Cumhuriyet who was known for indicating that Kemalism and Socialism aren't different ideologies and that imperialist nations had corrupted the Turkish state and army. He was killed by a bomb placed in his car, outside his home.
Uğur Mumcu was born as the third of four siblings in Kırşehir, where his father was working. He went to school in Ankara and in 1961 attended School of Law at Ankara University. After graduation in 1965, he practiced law for a while. He then visited England to learn English and upon his return to Turkey worked as a teaching assistant at Ankara University from 1969 to 1972.

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Yusuf Akçura

YUSUF AKÇURA; 2 Aralık 1876’da Moskova’nın doğusundaki Ulyanovsk’ta (eski adıyla Simbir) dünyaya geldi. Kazan’a göç etmiş Kırım Türkleri’nden aristokrat bir ailenin mensubu idi. Babası çuha fabrikası sahibi fabrikatör Hasan Bey, annesi Yunusoğulları’ndan Bibi Kamer Banu Hanım idi. 2 yaşında iken babasını kaybetti ve annesi ile birlikte yedi yaşına gelmeden İstanbul’a göç ettiler. Annesi, İstanbul’da Dağıstanlı Osman Bey ile evlendi. Kuleli Askeri Lisesi’nde öğrenim gördükten sonra 1895 yılında Harbiye Mektebi’ne girdi. Okulun 2. sınıfında iken Türkçülük hareketlerine katılmaktan dolayı 45 gün ceza aldı. Erkân-ı Harbiye sınıfına ayrıldıktan sonra askeri mahkeme tarafından müebbet olarak Fizan’a sürgün edildi ve askerlikten uzaklaştırıldı. Fi

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