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Asiyan Museum is the former home of the famous Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret. The wooden mansion overlooking Bosphorus was built by the poet himself. On show are the poet's several possessions and the painting Sis ( Fog ) made by Abdulmecit who was inspired by Tevfik Fikret's poem of that name.
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TEVFIK FIKRET (1867 - 1915) Tevfik Fikret, one of Turkey's leading poets, was born in 1867 in Istanbul.He was educated in the famous Mekteb-i Sultani (Galatasaray High School) and he took several educational positions in the Mekteb-i Sultani (1894-1895) |
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and in the Robert College. He was the most important poet of the Servet-i Funun literary movement (1896-1901) and his poetry marked a revolutionary beginning for modern Turkish literature. His efforts to "Westernize" Turkish poetry and his poems with their didactic and patriotic tone, inspired the enlightenment and secularism movements in Turkey. This explains why Tevfik Fikret was one of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's favorite poets. |
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Asiyan
Museum
Asiyan Yolu, Bebek Telephone:
90-212-2636986 Open daily except Mondays and Thursdays, 09:00-17:00 |