death_date birth_place nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation alma_mater
1945 1879 fethiye turkish 1879 founding the newspaper '' cumhuriyet '' yunus nadi abalıoğlu
 yunus nadi abalıoğlu journalist istanbul university
yunus nadi abalıoğlu

yunus nadi abalıoğlu -lrb- 1879 , fethiye -- 28 june 1945 -rrb- was a renowned turkish journalist and founder of the newspaper `` cumhuriyet '' .
yunus nadi was born in 1879 in the seydiler village of the south aegean town fethiye .
after primary school in fethiye , he was schooled on rhodes .
later on , yunus nadi moved to istanbul , where he graduated from the galatasaray high school .
he then graduated from the istanbul university with a degree in law .
yunus nadi started to work as a journalist at the newspaper '' `` malumat '' '' in 1900 .
he was only 22 years old when he was sentenced to a three-years prison and exile due to an article he wrote in 1901 .
until the proclamation of the second constitutional monarchy in 1908 , he lived in fethiye .
returning to istanbul , yunus nadi joined the newspaper '' '' İkdam ve tasvir-i efkar '' '' .
in 1910 he became editor-in-chief of the newspaper '' `` rumeli '' '' in thessaloniki published by the committee for union and progress party .
at the age of 32 , he was elected deputy of aydın into the ottoman parliament in constantinople in 1912 and was reelected for another five-years term in 1914 .
the literary yunus nadi prize competition , which is `` the oldest surviving literary competition '' in turkey , has been named to his name and memorial .
