Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım [SEP] date of death
Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım
Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım (1857 – 1924) was one of the leading Turkish Cypriot poets of the nineteenth century.
Biography.
Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım was born in 1857 in Nicosia, Cyprus. In 1884, Nazım worked as an Ottoman official in the public service of the Ottoman Empire in Chios, Adana, Istanbul, Izmir, and Bursa. He then resigned from his duties and returned to his native Cyprus where he continued his profession in poetry.
and the culture of the island of Cyprus, along with some reflection of the British colonial history.
Early Turkish Cypriot poets include Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım, Aşık Kenzi and Hasan Hilmi Efendi, who was called "the sultan of poets" by the Ottoman sultan Mahmud II. However, these poets are often not included in a distinct Turkish Cypriot literature as their writing identified with the Ottoman Empire and the Islamic community rather than Turkish Cypriots, whose literary identity had not been established at this time.
The first era of Turkish