


Tevfik Effendi had a son indeed some time later and they named him Mehmet Ziya The mother and father took much care of his being brought up Young Ziya read about Shah Ismail Asik Kerem even when he was only seven or eight He enjoyed Ziya Pasha and Namik Kemal when he was fourteen His father Tevfik Effendi was a foreseeing person He gave him the taste of reading and fed him with great ideals He said to his son on the day when Namik Kemal died: This is a day of big mourning because the greatest personage of this nation Namik Kemal died You will follow him and will be a patriot and independence lover like him" Such inculcation with a psychological understanding turned to be a will of his father and guided him He was born in Diyarbakir which bore many monuments of various civilizations This city is the oldest cultural center of Anatolia with its libraries and schools A visitor named Çolu Hodja came on 23 March 1876 while Ziya Gokalp's father Provincial Director of Documents Tevfik Effendi sat and waited for the news of birth of her wife at his house's selamlik and gave the good news: "You will have a son in this hour name him Mehmet Ziya". He was sent to exile to Diyarbakir after 9 months in prison he opened a branch of Ittihat ve Terakki party there after proclamation of second Constitutional Monarchy Then he went to Salonika he wrote articles for Genç Kalemler magazine He became a member of general central committee of the party after constitutional monarchy He entered Turkish Parliament in 1924 He died the same year He was a great Turkist Ziya Gokalp is one of the greatest Turkish thinkers of contemporary Turkish thought history He is a sociologist and instructor who thought the philosophy of Turkism trend and ensured development of national literature in Turkey. He died in Istanbul in 1924 He was arrested in last class of Veterinary school because of establishing secret society. Thinker and artist poet He was born in Diyarbakir in 1876.
