Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet, and activist (born 1876)

Ziya Gökalp

Turkish writer and journalist (1876–1924)

Mehmet Ziya Gökalp was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp, which he retained for the rest of his life. As a sociologist, Ziya Gökalp was…