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Mehmet Akif Ersoy

1873 - 1936

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Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was a Turkish poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the Turkish National Anthem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehmet Akif Ersoy has received more than 198,694 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Mehmet Akif Ersoy is the 1,497th most popular writer (down from 1,480th in 2019), the 515th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 491st in 2019) and the 37th most popular Turkish Writer.

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  • 200k

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  • 57.63

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ranks 1,497 out of 5,755Before him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Gottfried von Strassburg, Peter Abrahams, Håkan Nesser, Michael Moorcock, and Nicholas Sparks. After him are Raymond Roussel, Li Qingzhao, Gottfried August Bürger, Gore Vidal, David Woodard, and Gil Vicente.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ranks 53Before him are Robert Wiene, Eliel Saarinen, Hugo Simberg, Arnold van Gennep, Leo Frobenius, and Édouard Claparède. After him are Hans Berger, Max Adler, Sidney Reilly, Antonie Pannekoek, Thorvald Stauning, and Jukums Vācietis. Among people deceased in 1936, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ranks 58Before him are Max Schreck, Kikunae Ikeda, Basil Zaharoff, Carl Stumpf, Mikhail Tomsky, and Edward Bach. After him are Saitō Makoto, Alexander Berkman, Anna Boch, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Martin Lowry, and Gyula Gömbös.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ranks 515 out of 1,301Before him are Pelagia (400), Ardys of Lydia (-750), Nubar Pasha (1825), Eunapius (349), Joe Strummer (1952), and Mursili III (-1400). After him are Metrodorus of Lampsacus (-331), Despina Khatun (1438), Stratonice of Syria (-317), George Syncellus (800), Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (1948), and Tchéky Karyo (1953).

Among WRITERS In Turkey

Among writers born in Turkey, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ranks 37Before him are Aelius Aristides (117), Callinus (-680), Oribasius (325), Hieronymus of Cardia (-390), Quintus Smyrnaeus (400), and Kâtip Çelebi (1609). After him are Yeghishe Charents (1897), Petros Markaris (1937), Symeon the New Theologian (949), Yaşar Kemal (1923), Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti (1929), and Zeki Müren (1931).