Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım
Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım was one of the leading Turkish Cypriot poets of the nineteenth century.Biography
Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım was born in 1857 in Nicosia, Cyprus. In 1884, Nazım worked as an Ottoman official in the public service of the Ottoman Empire in Chios, Adana, Istanbul, Izmir, and Bursa. He then resigned from his duties and returned to his native Cyprus where he continued his profession in poetry.