Sabahattin Ali was born in Komotini, Greece, 1917; and assassinated in Kirklareli, Turkey, 1948. He worked as a teacher in Yozgat, Aydin, Konya and Ankara for couple of years. In 1945, Ali started to publish humorous and opposing magazine Marko Pasa. He arrested in 1948 for an article and sentenced for three months. Sabahattin Ali wanted to escape abroad, because government was chasing him all the time. A soldier called Ali Ertekin killed him when Ali was trying to escape from Turkey. This assassination still preserves its mystery.

Sabahattin Ali is one of the best novelists of Turkey for all the time. The novel, Kurk Mantolu Madonna is his masterpiece. He also wrote lots of poems and short stories; and translated some classic novels to Turkish. He expressed human strengths and weaknesses with a masterful style.

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Sabahattin Ali

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