1. Peyami Safa was a Turkish journalist, columnist and novelist.
32 Facts About Peyami Safa
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Peyami Safa came to the fore in the Turkish literature of the Republican era with his psychological works such as Dokuzuncu Hariciye Kogusu.
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Peyami Safa reflected his life and his changes to his works.
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Peyami Safa wrote many novels under the pseudonym Server Bedi.
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Peyami Safa created Cingoz Recai, a character inspired by Arsene Lupin of the French writer Maurice Leblanc.
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Peyami Safa processed his psychology in those years in his autobiographical novel, Ninth External Ward.
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Peyami Safa gave his first literary products during his education in Vefa High School.
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Peyami Safa entered pen quarrels with prominent literary writers of the period.
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Peyami Safa experienced various changes by exhibiting positivist, materialist, mystical, nationalist, conservative, anti-communist and corporatist attitudes.
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Peyami Safa always chose Istanbul as the venue for his later works and never gave up the synthesis and analysis of the East and the West.
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Peyami Safa published articles with critical style in newspapers such as Milliyet.
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Peyami Safa continued his literary life, which he started at a young age, until his death.
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Peyami Safa's works were adapted to the cinema and series in various periods.
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Peyami Safa was born on April 2,1899, in Gedikpasa and named after Tevfik Fikret, one of the poets of Servet-i Funun.
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Peyami Safa's father Ismail Safa was referred to as a "mother-born poet" by Muallim Naci and belonged to a family of Trabzon origin.
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Peyami Safa's father was one of the opponents of Abdulhamid II and died in Sivas while in exile without leaving anything financial to his family.
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Peyami Safa, who lost his father when he was one and a half years old, was brought up by his mother under hard conditions with his brother Ilhami Safa.
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Peyami Safa influenced the effect of this disease in his work, Dokuzuncu Hariciye Kogusu.
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Peyami Safa started his high school education in Vefa High School in Fatih in 1910.
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Peyami Safa gave his first literary discussions and products in those years.
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Peyami Safa wrote his first story essay Piano Teaching and his first novel essay Eski Dost in high school.
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Peyami Safa developed the knowledge of French by memorizing Petit Larousse, a gift from his father's close friends, Abdullah Cevdet, and began to be interested in medicine, psychology and philosophy books besides literary works.
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Peyami Safa, who left his teaching position at the Rehber-i Ittihad School during the armistice period in 1918, started publishing the newspaper Twentieth Century with his brother.
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Peyami Safa made his first pen fight against Cenap Sahabettin's adaptation play.
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Peyami Safa went on his relationship with the newspaper as a columnist and literature manager.
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Peyami Safa's article titled "New Literary Circles" published in Hilal-i Ahmer magazine led to a pencil fight with Ahmet Hasim.
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Peyami Safa approached Turkish Letter Revolution, which took place during the time of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, anxiously considering that it would cause cultural disconnections between generations, but in the following periods he became one of the complementary of this revolution and participated in language congresses.
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From this point on, Peyami Safa adopted an anti-communist worldview until the end of his life.
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Peyami Safa died on June 15,1961, in Istanbul at the age of 62 after couple of months his son Merve died, as he was serving his time in the military.
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Peyami Safa was the editor-in-chief of the daily Son Havadis as he died.
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Peyami Safa wrote 15 novels, excluding those written under pseudonym.
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Peyami Safa wrote 17 non-fictions and 9 textbooks mostly about literature.