Mehmet Emin Yurdakul

Mehmet Emin Yurdakul
Photograph of Mehmet Emin Yurdakul
Born(1869-05-13)May 13, 1869
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (modern Istanbul, Turkey)
DiedJanuary 14, 1944(1944-01-14) (aged 74)
Istanbul, Turkey
NationalityOttoman, Turkish
Occupation(s)Politician, author

Mehmet Emin Yurdakul (13 May 1869 – 14 January 1944) was a Turkish nationalist writer, poet and politician. Being an ideologue of Pan-Turkism, his writings and poems had a major impact on defining the term vatan (Fatherland).[1]

  1. ^ Landau, Jacob M. (1995). Pan-Turkism: From Irredentism to Cooperation. C.Hurst & Co. ISBN 1-85065-223-6.