Halil Halid

Halil Hâlid (1869 – 1931 ) was a Turkish writer, diplomat, academic and a member of the Ottoman Parliament. He was a teacher at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and the University of Istanbul in Turkey.

Early life and education Halil Hâlid was born in 1869 in Ankara into a religious family in a village near the coast of the Black Sea. He attended high school in Ankara and then moved to Istanbul where he studied for while in a Medrese beside the Beyazit Mosque. He then studied law at the Darülfünun (which would become the Istanbul University). He graduated in 1893. Not satisfied with the political climate in the Ottoman Empire he moved to the United Kingdom in 1894. He then was compelled by the Ottoman Ambassador in London to return to Istanbul to gain a document demonstrating he did not have some legal issue back in the Ottoman Empire. He shortly returned travelling with stops in Paris and Budapest but was not successful. Following the Young Turk revolution of 1908, he visited Istanbul for several times and began to write for the Servet-i Fünun around 1909.

Journeys In 1904 he travelled to Algeria, then a French colony to take part in the Congress of the Orientalists on behalf of the University of Cambridge. His stay in inspired him for his book Cezayir Hatiratindan (Reminiscences to Algeria). He was impressed by the German women's life during the war who had organized in voluntary work. The meal kitchen at the Alexanderplatz where 7000 people were served in turns, left a deep impression on him. Further he reported on the State Print which had an independent administration and not only private customers but also the state had to pay for the publications ordered.

Journey to Bern He attended the Socialist International in Bern in 1919 where he presented the British delegation an exemplar of the A Study in English Turcophobia.

In the Turkish Republic In 1922 he became a lecturer in the Faculty of Literature Darülfünün and later also its Faculty of Theology. 1912, Berlin; Panislamische Gefahr 1918, Berlin; Bazı Berlin Makālâtı 1919, A Study in English Turcophobia 1925, Türk Hakimiyeti ve Ingiliz Cihangirligi