Mehmed Nâzım Ran, commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet, was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements". Described as a "romantic communist" and a "romantic revolutionary", he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated into more than 50 languages.
Nâzım Hikmet
Nâzım Hikmet in 1917, at the age of 15
Nâzım Hikmet
The first-ever collected works of the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet, published in communist Bulgaria
Mehmed Ali Pasha (marshal)
Mehmed Ali Pasha was a Prussian-born Ottoman career officer and marshal. He was the grandfather of the Turkish statesman Ali Fuat Cebesoy, and the great-grandfather of famous poets Nâzım Hikmet and Oktay Rıfat Horozcu and the socialist activist, lawyer, and athlete Mehmet Ali Aybar.
Mehmed Ali Pasha (marshal)
Mehemet Ali Pasha, as Turkish Commander in Chief holds a press conference in Shumla, 1877
Painting of the Congress of Berlin by Anton von Werner (far right: Mehmed Ali Pasha), 1878