Haluk’s credo

Title: Haluk’un Amentüsü (Haluk’s credo) Originally published: Haluk’un defteri (Haluk’s notebook), Istanbul, Tanin Matbaası, 1911 Language: Ottoman Turkish The excerpts used are from Kemal Sılay’s An anthology of Turkish literature (Bloomington Indiana: Cem Publishing, 1996), pp. 259–260. About the author Tevfik Fikret [1867, Istanbul – 1915, Istanbul]: poet and pivotal figure in the founding of modern Turkish literature. In 1888, Fikret graduated from the ‘Imperial School of Galatasaray,’ f...