In 1896, he began to edit the journal Servet-i fünun (The merit of the sciences), which was to became the most significant journal during the reign of Abdülhamid II, a time marked by severe limitations on the freedom of expression. After briefly working as a Turkish literature teacher at Galatasaray, he resigned in protest of the government’s decision to pay wages in arrears. In 1891, he was already a prize-winning poet and a prominent member of Istanbul’s literary circles. In 1888, Fikret graduated from the ‘Imperial School of Galatasaray,’ founded in 1867 on the model of the French lycée for the education of civil servants. About the authorĥ Tevfik Fikret : poet and pivotal figure in the founding of modern Turkish literature. 1 Title: Haluk’un Amentüsü (Haluk’s credo)Ģ Originally published: Haluk’un defteri (Haluk’s notebook), Istanbul, Tanin Matbaası, 1911ĤThe excerpts used are from Kemal Sılay’s An anthology of Turkish literature (Bloomington Indiana: Cem Publishing, 1996), pp.
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