Orhan Veli Kanık
Turkish poet
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Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli was a Turkish poet. Kanık is one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet. Aiming to fundamentally transform traditional form in Turkish poetry, he introduced colloquialisms... Wikipedia
Born: April 13, 1914, Beykoz, Türkiye
Died: November 14, 1950 (age 36 years), İstanbul, Türkiye
Siblings: Ayşe Zerrin
Parents: Mehmet Veli and Fatma Nigar
Education: Galatasaray Lisesi (1925) and Istanbul University
Nationality: Turkish
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