Namık Kemal, Turkish journalist, playwright, and activist (died 1888)

Namık Kemal

Turkish poet, journalist and political activist (1840–1888)

Namık Kemal was an Ottoman writer, poet, democrat, intellectual, reformer, journalist, playwright, and political activist who was influential in the formation of the Young Ottomans and their struggle for governmental reform in the Ottoman Empire during the late Tanzimat period,…