Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel


Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel was a leading Turkish poet, author and later politician.

Biography

He was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, in 1898. He completed his primary and secondary education in Istanbul. Having studied medicine for a while, he quit his education and decided to work in the newspaper Ati. In 1973, he died of a heart attack on board a ship.