Yasar Kemal

It has been six years since Turkey lost legendary author Yaşar Kemal, an outspoken intellectual and prolific writer who became the country's first nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

An exhibition by Turkey's celebrated late photographer Ara Güler on the western province of İzmir will be greeting its online audience with "merhaba," which means "hello" in Turkish and was one of his favorite words that he used throughout his life.

Ya?ar Kemal, a landmark name of Turkish literature, passed away on the afternoon of Feb. 28, ending weeks-long suffering in hospital due to multiple organ failure.

Turkey’s first Nobel Prizer for literature Yasar Kemal has died on Friday in an Istanbul hospital following respiratory and organ failure.
He was an ethnic Kurd born in south-eastern Turkey who won international fame for his first novel, Memed, My Hawk, published in 1955.
It became a worldwide success and was published in 40 languages.