Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (born 1923)

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 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 306 days remain until the end of the year.