HÜSEYİN SİRET (Özsever)

Poet (b. 1872, İstanbul – d. 27 February 1959). He graduated from Kadıköy Freres Private French School and the School of Politics High School. He worked as a civil servant at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Public Works. He was exiled to a district in Malatya during the rule of Abdülhamit II. and consequently, he fled to Europe. He participated in the Young Turk Congress that assembled in Paris (1902).

He worked as a correspondent in Bursa, a director at the Directorate of Printing and as a teacher at the School for Orphans for many years. The influence of Tevfik Fikret can be seen in his poems that were on love, women, nature and exile. Some of his poems were not published. He is buried in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.

WORKS:

Leyâl-i Girizan (Nights That Run Away, 1910), Bağbozumu (Vintage, 1928), Kıvılcımlı Kül (Ash with Flame, 1937), Kargalar (The Crows, 1942).