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3 unusual facts about Necip Fazıl Kısakürek


Necip Fazıl Kısakürek

In his own words, he was born in "a huge mansion in Çemberlitaş, on one of the streets descending towards Sultanahmet" in 1904.

Necip Fazıl Kısakürek died on 25 May 1983 in his house at Erenköy after an illness that "lasted long but did not impair his intellectual activity and writing" and was buried in the graveyard at the Eyüp Cemetery on the ridge of Eyüp after an eventful funeral.

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Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983), poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher and activist



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