Sahra

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In Islamic arts: Turkish literatures
…1879 he published his epoch-making Sahra (“The Country”), a collection of 10 Turkish poems that were the first to be composed in Western verse forms and style. Later he turned to unusual and often morbid subject matter in his poetic dramas. He, like his colleagues, had to endure political restrictions…
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