[1] Hüseyin Cahit was born in 1914 in the town of Nezib,[2] then located in the vilayet of Aleppo, Ottoman Empire.

In 1940, he started studying philosophy at Istanbul University and got his master's degree four years later with his thesis "The Origin of Ethics in Schopenhauer."

[5] Tanyol often criticized the ideological dynamics in Turkey: "From elementary school to university, we teach the revolutions, Kemalism; graduating students either become Marxist or Nurcu.

In the video, he was confronted by his former students and shown declaring support for president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

He underlined that Tanyol had a leftist background and previously fiercely criticized Erdoğan's original political movement, Millî Görüş.