Turgut Uyar

Turgut Uyar
Born	(1927-08-04)August 4, 1927 Ankara, Turkey
Died	August 22, 1985(1985-08-22) (aged 58) Istanbul, Turkey
Occupation	Poet
Notable work	Dünyanın En Güzel Arabistanı

Turgut Uyar (August 4, 1927 – August 22, 1985) was a Turkish poet.

Life

Turgut Uyar was born in Ankara on 4 August 1927 as the fifth of the six children of Fatma Hanım and Hayri Bey. His father served as a squadron leader in the army and his mother was a housewife. He studied primary school in different cities of Turkey. Then he went to military high school in Bursa. He married Yezdan Şener when he was going to university and he had three children, Semiramis, Tunga and Şeyda, from this marriage. He served as a personnel officer in Posof, Terme and Ankara. He resigned from office in 1958 and divorced his wife in the early 1960s. After moving to Istanbul, he married Tomris Uyar in 1969. He died on 22 August 1985.