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ŞInasi İbrahim
(1826—1871)

Ottoman intellectual. İbrahim Şinasi's father was an army officer for the Ottoman Empire, and Şinasi himself became an army scribe after completing elementary school. He learned French, and in 1849 he was sent to Europe by the leading Tanzimat reformer, Mustafa Reşid Paşa. There he was influenced by such luminaries as... More...

Turkey, 1959, Şinasi