Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım

Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım (1857 – 1924) was one of the leading Turkish Cypriot poets of the nineteenth century.[1]

Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım
Born	1857 Nicosia, Cyprus
Died	1924 (aged 67)
Occupation	Poet

Biography

Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım was born in 1857 in Nicosia, Cyprus. In 1884, Nazım worked as an Ottoman official in the public service of the Ottoman Empire in Chios, Adana, Istanbul, Izmir, and Bursa. He then resigned from his duties and returned to his native Cyprus where he continued his profession in poetry.[2]

References

1. Batislam 2007, 71.
2. Batislam 2007, 72.

• Batislam, Dilek (2000), Kıbrıslı Şair Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım Efendi’nin Mersiyeleri Üzerine Bir İnceleme (PDF), Eastern Mediterranean University
• Batislam, Dilek (2007), "Kıbrıslı Şair Kaytazzâde Mehmed Nâzım Efendi'nin Mevlâna'ya Yazdığı Şiirler" (PDF), Mevlâna Araştırmaları Dergisi, Selçuk University, 1: 71–82
• Nevzat, Altay (2005), Nationalism Amongst the Turks in Cyprus: The First Wave (PDF), University of Oulu, ISBN 951-42-7751-1.