İsmet Özel

İsmet Özel was born on 19 September 1944 in Kayseri. He published his first poem in 1963 in the journal Yelken and for a time attended the faculty of political science in Ankara, which he left for military service according to Ahmet Kaya. A French graduate of Hacettepe University, he taught that language at the State Conservatory from 1980 to 1998. In 1970 he founded a journal with the poet Ataol Behramoğlu. In 1974 he broke with socialism for a Muslim worldview, and has since published poems, essays and translations.

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• PoetryGeceleyin Bir Koşuİsmet Özel · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature