Yaşar Nezihe

Yaşar Nezihe (1882 - 5 November 1971) was considered as one of the female poets in the Ottoman Period. She is known as the writer of the first Turkish poem for International Workers' Day on 1 May.

Yaşar Nezihe differed from other female poets of the period in the sense of her life story and a contrary literary identity. Throughout her lifetime, she wrote poems about her penurious and challenging childhood as well as her love life and marriages.

Being known as the first female poet whose works were published in Aydınlık Dergisi (Enlightenment Journal), Yaşar Nezihe also became prominent for supporting labour unrests and her activist identity. She was recognised as a socialist poet who gave voice to poverty in her poems.

She wrote the poem named "Gazete Sahiplerine" (To Newspaper Owners) addressing the executives with the intent of supporting labourers who were on strike because of the disagreement between newspaper owners and Mürettipler Cemiyeti (Typesetters Society).