Ahmet Mithat

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Ahmet Mithat was a prolific Turkish writer active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a key figure in the development of the Turkish novel, publishing extensively between 1875 and 1910. Mithat's works, along with those of his contemporaries, often had a public and didactic purpose, influencing many writers into the 20th century. His writing contributed to the broader literary movement of the New Ottoman period, which aimed to modernize the Ottoman state under the influence of European ideas.1

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Turkish literature
New Ottoman literature (1839–1918)
…notably with the works of Ahmet Mithat, who published prolifically between 1875 and 1910. During Mithat’s lifetime, both the novel and poetry assumed a strongly public, didactic orientation that would prove highly influential among many writers well into the 20th century. Tevfik Fikret became a major literary voice of the…
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…notably with the works of Ahmet Mithat, who published prolifically between 1875 and 1910. During Mithat’s lifetime, both the novel and poetry assumed a strongly public, didactic orientation that would prove highly influential among many writers well into the 20th century. Tevfik Fikret became a major literary voice of the…
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