Mehmet Akif Ersoy Heykeli - Talatpaşa Blv

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Hamamönü is a nice, quiet place, the park is good for leisure and coffee.

Mehmet Akif Ersoy was born on December 20, 1873 in Istanbul. His father, Mehmet Tahir Efendi, one of the professors of the Fatih Madrasa, came to Istanbul from the Şuşise Village of the İpek district of Albania, affiliated to the Ottoman Empire, and his mother Emine Cemile Hanım was born in Samsun as the daughter of Mehmet Efendi from Buhara. Although Mehmet Tahir Efendi gave him the name Rağıf, which corresponds to 1290, the year he was born, on the basis of numerology, he was called Akif by his surroundings. Apart from Akif, they had a daughter named Nuriye. Mehmet Akif was born in Istanbul, in the Nasuh neighborhood of the Sarıgüzel district of Fatih. His childhood coincided with the period when the Ottoman Empire was described as a "sick man". In 1878, when Akif was 4 years old, he started Emir Buhari Neighborhood School in Fatih. After studying here for two years, he transferred to Fatih Ibtidaisi. In the same year, his father started teaching him Arabic lessons. Because his father taught Emin Pasha's children in the summer, he became friends with Emin Pasha's children. Mehmet Akif completed his primary education in 1882 and started Fatih Central Junior High School. He was also attending Assad Dede's Iranian Literature classes in Fatih Mosque. After starting high school education in the İdadi department of Mülkiye, he moved to the higher part. After a short while, he could not attend school because of the burning of his house and the death of his father, and he transferred to the Baytar School, a civil veterinary school. Mehmet Akif, whose interest in poetry started in this period, started to write his first poems in this period. After graduating with the first rank on 22 December 1893, he was appointed as the Deputy Inspector of Forest and Ma'adin ve Ziraat Nezare'Baytar. In 1895, his first work, "Address to the Quran" with 7 couplets, was published in the newspaper Servet-i Fünun. He served in Rumelia, Anatolia and Arabia for 4 years. These travels affected Mehmet Akif's life of thought and summer. When he was 25 years old on September 1, 1898, he married İsmet Hanım, the daughter of Tophane-i Amire cashier, Mehmet Emin Bey. In the same years, his poetry articles and his translation from Arabic, Persian and French were published in Maarif Magazine and Resimli Gazete. He was appointed as the teacher of Kitabet-i Resmiye to Halkalı Agricultural School in 1906 and as Turkish teacher to the Farm Machinist School in 1907. Then a year later II. When the Constitutional Monarchy was declared, he was appointed as the Assistant Director of Umur-i Baytariye Department in Istanbul. His most famous poems of his period, "Küfe" and "Seyfi Baba", were published between 1908-1910 in the "Sırat'i Müstakim" magazine. After a short while, Mehmet Akif, who was appointed as the professor of Darülfünun Literature-i Umumiye, remained in this position for a long time. He joined the Committee of Union and Progress in 1913. During World War I, he was sent to Berlin to examine the situation of Muslim prisoners in Germany through the Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa, an organization affiliated to this society. Then he went to Arabia and Lebanon where he witnessed the west-east divide. After returning to Istanbul, he was appointed as the chief clerk of Darül-Hikmet-i İslamiye. During the Armistice period, Miili supported the liberation movement. He was dismissed from his position in Istanbul due to his speech in Balıkesir. After the establishment of the Ankara Government, he entered the parliament as Burdur Deputy. At that time, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, who entered the contest for the Turkish National Anthem with the support of Minister of Education Hamdullah Suphi, won the contest among 724 poems. Accepted March 18, 1921 in poetry, in 1924 by Osman Zeki Üngör bestelenerek "National Anthem of the Republic of Turkey" was declared. Mehmet Akif Ersoy refused to accept the 500 lira he won from the competition and presented it to the Turkish Army. He came to Istanbul after the Sakarya Victory, but Mehmet Akif Ersoy, one of the Islamic awakening thinkers, went to Egypt due to the establishment of the secular order of the Republic. He taught Turkish Language and Literature in Egypt until 1936. He went to Lebanon in 1935 and Antakya in 1936 after he was caught in Cirrhosis. When his illness progressed, he returned to his country and died in Istanbul on December 27, 1936. His grave is in Edirnekapı Martyrdom.