Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın

Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Personal details
Born(1874-12-07)7 December 1874
Balıkesir, Ottoman Empire
Died18 October 1957(1957-10-18) (aged 82)
Istanbul, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
Political partyParty of Union and Progress, Republican People's Party

Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın (7 December 1874 – 18 October 1957) was a prominent Turkish theorist, writer, and politician. He is famous for having been a dissident journalist, who was put on trial and punished due to his political newspaper columns. His publications defending the idea of a homogenous nation became popular within the Committee of Union and Progress.

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