Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın

Hüseyin Cahit was born in 1874 in Balıkesir. He started his literary life by writing stories, novels and prose poems. He later wrote on journalism, criticism and translation. He also wrote satirical poems under the pseudonym Hemrah. He is one of the most important figures of the Edebiyat-ı Cedide (New Literary Movement). After the Second Constitutional Era, he helped Tevfik Fikret and Hüseyin Kazım to publish the Tanin newspaper, as it was put into political life. In 1912 he and Abdullah Cevdet advocated without success for the introduction of the Latin script in the Ottoman Empire.[1] From 1918 to 1922 he lived banished in Malta. 1922 he returned and he again published Tanin. 1925 he was again banished to Çorum.[2] He died in 1957.[3]