Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu

Yakup Kadri

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (born March 27, 1889 in Cairo , † December 13, 1974 in Ankara ) was a Turkish journalist , politician and writer . Before the introduction of family names in Turkey, he used the name Yakup Kadri , whose spelling in Arabic script was also reproduced with Jakub Kadri in German before the introduction of Turkish Latin script . He came from a well-established and well-established Turkish family in Western Anatolia, named after their eponym Karaosman ("Dark Osman").

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu attended the elementary school in Manisa , later the high school in Izmir . From 1908 he lived in Istanbul . After completing his law degree, he worked as a journalist, initially publishing in literary magazines and was also a teacher of literature and philosophy. In Ankara he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Ulus ( German  "nation" ). In 1922 he joined Mustafa Kemal Pasha and his political struggle and in 1923 became a member of the Turkish National Assembly, founded in 1920 . Yakup Kadri was later sent abroad as an ambassador because he had made himself unpopular with his journalistic activities. He was successively Turkish ambassador to Albania (1934), Czechoslovakia (1935), the Netherlands (1939-1940), Switzerland (1942), Iran (1949) and from 1951 until his retirement in 1955 again in the Switzerland. From 1961 to 1965 Karaosmanoğlu was again a member of the Turkish parliament for the constituency of Manisa.

Mainly a narrator, he published a volume with stories from the National Liberation Struggle (1947). His most important work, Der Fremdling (1932), is considered a classic of Turkish literature. It was published in German as early as 1939, and later by Suhrkamp in a newly annotated edition. The novel Nur Baba was also published in German in 1986 under the title “Flamme und Falter”.

Works

• Bir Serencam (An Adventure, 1913)
  • Review: Richard Hartmann : Jakub Kadri. A modern Turkish narrator. into the world of Islam . Journal of the German Society for Islamic Studies , vol. 5, no. 4, 1917 online ; (scroll to the bottom fifth of the page)
• Kiralık Konak (The Rented Villa, 1922)
• Hüküm Gecesi (The Night of the Judgment, 1927)
• Sodom ve Gomore (Sodom and Gomorrah, 1928)
• Yaban (The Stranger, 1932)
• Ankara (1934)
• Baba only (Flame and Butterfly) ISBN 3-424-00904-0
• Zoraki diplomat (reluctant diplomat, memoir, 1954)

literature

• Yakub Karaosmanoglu , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 11/1967 of March 6, 1967, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Friedrich Karl Dörner (Ed.): From the Bosporus to the Ararat (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 7 = writings of the Hermann Bröckelschen Foundation. Volume 5). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0417-X , p. 376.
• Otto Spies : The modern Turkish literature , In: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Turkologie , Brill, Leiden 1982, ISBN 90-04-06555-5 , pp. 358f
• Börte Sagaster: Self-image and external image in Turkish literature after the First World War: Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu's novel Sodom ve Gomore , in Gerhard Höpp , Henner Fürtig : Whose history? Muslim experiences of historical turning points in the 20th century. Workbooks of the Center for Modern Orient ZMO, 16. Verlag Das arabische Buch, Berlin 1998 ISBN 3879975817 pp. 27–44

predecessor	Office	successor
Ruşen Eşref Ünaydın	Turkish envoy to Albania 1934–1935	Ali Türkgeldi
Hasan Vasfi Menteş	Turkish envoy to Czechoslovakia 1936–1939	Faik Hüseyin Hozar (from 1946)
Ahmet Cevad Üstün	Turkish envoy to the Netherlands 1939–1940	Ali Türkeldi (from 1946)
Hasan Vasfi Menteş	Turkish envoy to Switzerland 1942–1949 1951–1954	Faik Zihni Akdur
Sami Efendi	Turkish envoy to Persia 1949–1951	Dembel Muammer Hamdi