Vatan Yahut Silistre

Vatan Yahut Silistre
First page of the Ottoman Turkish edition of Vatan Yahut Silistre, copy created in 1888
Written byNamık Kemal
Date premiered1872
Place premieredConstantinople (modern-day Istanbul)
Original languageOttoman Turkish
SettingBattle of Silistre, 1853

Vatan Yahut Silistre ("The Motherland or Silistre") was a play composed by the Ottoman poet and political essayist Namık Kemal in 1872. It was one of the first examples of romantic theater in Turkish literature, and included a political narrative shaped around revolutionary ideas revolving around the concept of "nations" and "nationalisms".

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