Refik Halit Karay

Refik Halit Karay (15 March 1888 – 18 July 1965) was a Turkish educator, writer and journalist.

[1] After studying at Galatasaray High School and Istanbul University Faculty of Law, he briefly served in the Ministry of Finance of the Ottoman Empire.

Being an opponent of the Committee of Union and Progress he was exiled to several cities in Anatolia.

During the reign of the Freedom and Accord Party he served as the teacher of Literature in Robert College and then the General Director of Turkish PTT.

He published a periodical named Aydede[3] and was one of the contributors of Kalem, a political satire magazine between 1908 and 1911.