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February 28, 2015
Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (born 1923)

Yaşar Kemal
Yaşar Kemal was a leading Turkish writer of Kurdish descent, who wrote in Turkish and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1955 novel Memed, My Hawk.
February 28
February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 306 days remain until the end of the year.