Nâzım Hikmet
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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
Nâzım Hikmet in Berlin, 1956
Nâzım Hikmet in 1917, at the age of 15
Nâzım Hikmet in East Germany, 1952
The first-ever collected works of the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet, published in communist Bulgaria
Mehmed Ali Pasha (marshal)
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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 Ok
Nâzım Hikmet
…is considered one of the first works of Turkish nationalist political thought. Nâzım Hikmet's maternal grandmother, Leyla Hanım, was the daughter of Mehmet Ali Pasha, of French Huguenot and German origin, and Ayşe Sıdıka Hanım, a daughter of Çerkes Hafız Paşa. Nâzım Hikmet and Celile Hanım's cousins included Oktay…
Mehmed Ali Pasha, c. 1878
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
Mehmed ali pasha