Enis Behiç Koryürek | |
Birth Date: | 11 March 1891 |
Birth Place: | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
Death Place: | Ankara, Turkey |
Occupation: | Writer, |
Nationality: | Turkish |
Language: | Turkish |
Enis Behiç Koryürek, (11 March 1891–18 October 1949), was a Turkish poet, teacher, diplomat and bureaucrat.
He is a diplomat who has made great contributions to the development of Turkish-Hungarian friendship and turning Gül Baba Tomb into a museum again. He was one of the first bureaucrats who approached the workers' issues seriously and opened the ways of institutionalization for solutions.[1]
He was born in 1891 in the Aksaray district of Istanbul. His father is Doctor Lieutenant Colonel İsmail Behiç Bey and his mother is Fâika Hanım.[2]
After completing his primary education at home, he studied at Thessaloniki and Skopje High Schools and Istanbul High School and graduated from the Mülkiye Mektebi with first place in 1913. He published his first poem, titled "My Soul Embeds in My Poems" when he was 19 years old.[3] He took part in the Fecr-i Ati community for a short time. He had wide repercussions with his poem "Vatan Elegy", which he dedicated to "Namik Kemal's soul".[4]
Poems