İbrahim Şinasi, Turkish journalist, author, and translator (born 1826)

İbrahim Şinasi

Turkish journalist, author and poet (1826–1871)

İbrahim Şinasi Efendi was a pioneering Ottoman intellectual, founder of Turkish dramaturgy, author, journalist, translator, playwright, linguist and newspaper editor. He was the innovator of several fields: he wrote one of the earliest examples of an Ottoman play, he encouraged…