Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı
Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (17 April 1886 – 13 October 1973; born Musa Cevat Şakir; pen-name exclusively used in his writings, "The Fisherman of Halicarnassus", ) was a Cretan Turk writer of novels, short-stories and essays, as well as being a keen ethnographer and travelogue. Biography. Cevat Şakir born in 1890 to Kabaağalızade family, His father Mehmet Şakir Pasha an impoverished military officer arranged his son's attendence to the Oxford University. Cevat Şakir dropped out and during his voyage back home he married to an Italian woman named "Anise". In 1914 he shot his father after an  argument they had in their family farm. It's indicated by Cevat Şakir that they were arguing about his wife. he was sentenced to 14 years by court and he was released after a general amnesty. He is deeply associated with Bodrum where he started to live in 1925 when he was sentenced to three-years' exile, and he fell under the spell of the town. After serving the last part of his sentence in Istanbul, he returned and settled down in Bodrum where he lived for 25 years, whence his pen-name in reference to Halicarnassus, name of the  city in antiquity. He is largely credited for bringing the formerly sleepy fishing and sponge-diving town of Bodrum, as well as the entire shoreline of the Blue Cruise, to the attention of the Turkish intelligentsia and the reading public first, and by extension, for paving the way towards the formation of international tourist attraction the region became. One of his famous poems about Bodrum is shown on a sign in the city: "When you reach the hill, you will see Bodrum. Don't think you'll leave as you came. Others before you thought the same, as they departed  they left their soul behind in Bodrum." Cevat Şakir had a deep impact on the evolution of intellectual ideas in Turkey during the 20th century. An erudite and colorful person, he remains a figure of reverence. Tribute. On April 17, 2015, Google celebrated his birthday with a Google Doodle.