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 "label": {
  "ar": "عمر سيف الدين",
  "en": "Ömer Seyfettin",
  "ur": "عمر سیف الدین"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "كاتب وضابط ومعلم تركي، وُلد في غونن سنة 1884 وتوفي في إسطنبول سنة 1920 بالسكري عن ستة وثلاثين عامًا. تخرج في المدرسة الحربية وخدم على حدود الدولة الغربية وأُسر في حرب البلقان، وشارك زيا كوك ألب وعلي جانيب في إصدار مجلة «كنج قلملر» سنة 1911، ويُعد من مؤسسي القصة القصيرة التركية الحديثة ومن رواد تبسيط اللغة التركية.",
  "en": "Turkish writer, officer and teacher, born at Gönen in 1884 and died of diabetes at Istanbul in 1920, aged thirty-six. He graduated from the Military Academy, served on the empire's western borders and was a prisoner of war in the Balkan War; in 1911 he co-founded the magazine Genç Kalemler with Ziya Gökalp and Ali Canip, and he is counted a founder of the modern Turkish short story and a pioneer of simplifying the Turkish language.",
  "ur": "ترک مصنف، فوجی افسر اور استاد، 1884ء میں گونن میں پیدا ہوئے اور 1920ء میں استنبول میں ذیابیطس سے وفات پائی۔ 1911ء میں ضیا گوک الپ کے ساتھ «گنج قلملر» جاری کیا؛ جدید ترک افسانے کے بانیوں اور زبان کی سادگی کے علمبرداروں میں شمار ہوتے ہیں۔"
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  "earliest": 1884.1912564939732,
  "latest": 1920.1783061937983
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   "edtf": "1884-03-11",
   "hijri": "1301",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born at Gönen, Balıkesir, on 11 March 1884: the English and Arabic articles and Wikidata give this day; the Turkish article confirms Gönen and 1884. The Hijri year 1301 is the tabular conversion of 11 March 1884 (13 Jumada al-Ula 1301) and is marked derived. Gönen has no place entity in the museum, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1920-03-06",
   "hijri": "1338",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died at Istanbul on 6 March 1920 of diabetes: the English, Turkish and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree. The Hijri year 1338 is the tabular conversion of 6 March 1920 (15 Jumada al-Akhira 1338) and is marked derived.",
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    "value": "عمر سيف الدين",
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    "value": "Ömer Seyfettin",
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  "gender": "male",
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   "teacher",
   "military"
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   "edtf": "1884-03-11",
   "hijri": "1301",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born at Gönen, Balıkesir, on 11 March 1884: the English and Arabic articles and Wikidata give this day; the Turkish article confirms Gönen and 1884. The Hijri year 1301 is the tabular conversion of 11 March 1884 (13 Jumada al-Ula 1301) and is marked derived. Gönen has no place entity in the museum, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1920-03-06",
   "hijri": "1338",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "Died at Istanbul on 6 March 1920 of diabetes: the English, Turkish and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree. The Hijri year 1338 is the tabular conversion of 6 March 1920 (15 Jumada al-Akhira 1338) and is marked derived.",
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "What each source gives, stated exactly: no source names a school for Ömer Seyfettin himself. The English and Turkish articles carry no religion field and their texts do not discuss his personal religion; the Arabic article's infobox religion field (الديانة) is present but left empty. Wikidata gives his religion (P140) only as the generic item Islam (Q432) — one structured-data value naming no school. His nationalism and his writings on Turks and Islam as themes are literary and political positions, not an attestation of a school. Under the two-source rule and the doubt rule his school is therefore left unknown, with these readings preserved here.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Ömer Seyfettin' (revision 1371896291), Turkish Wikipedia 'Ömer Seyfettin' (revision 37816061) and Arabic Wikipedia 'عمر سيف الدين حتيقوه' (revision 72788171, reached through the redirect from 'عمر سيف الدين'), read on 26 October 2026, with Wikidata item Q297504. The harvest queue's years (1884–1920) are confirmed, and the sources are in full agreement on his dates. No record of this person existed in the museum under any spelling, fragment or QID before this build.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "عمر سيف الدين (11 مارس 1884م – 6 مارس 1920م) كاتب وضابط ومعلم تركي، وُلد في غونن وتوفي في إسطنبول مريضًا بالسكري عن ستة وثلاثين عامًا. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-tr} شارك زيا كوك ألب وعلي جانيب يونتم في إصدار مجلة «كنج قلملر» (الأقلام الشابة) سنة 1911م في سالونيك، وهي منطلق حركة الأدب القومي وبرنامج تبسيط اللغة التركية. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} يُعد من مؤسسي القصة القصيرة التركية الحديثة، وأشهر آثاره «أصحاب الكهف لدينا» و«أفروز بك» و«يالنيز أفه». {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "وُلد عمر سيف الدين في غونن ابنًا لضابط، ودخل المدرسة الحربية وتخرج فيها سنة 1903م ملازمًا، فخدم على حدود الدولة الغربية ومنها قوش أداسي. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} شارك في جيش الحركة سنة 1909م وعلّم في إزمير، ثم أُعيد استدعاؤه في حرب البلقان الأولى فهُزم عند يانينا في يناير 1913م وقضى نحو اثني عشر شهرًا أسيرًا في اليونان. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} ترك الجيش سنة 1914م وعلّم الأدب في إسطنبول وصار الكاتب الرئيسي في «ترك يوردو»، ونشر أكثر قصصه ابتداءً من 1917م، وكتب في «بيوك مجموعه» في 1919–1920م. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-tr} دخل مستشفى حيدر باشا في 23 فبراير 1920م، وأظهر التشريح سكريًا غير مُشخّص كان سبب وفاته في 6 مارس 1920م، ونُقلت رفاته سنة 1939م إلى مقبرة زنجيرلي قويو. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأعمال",
     "markdown": "من رواياته القصيرة «أصحاب الكهف لدينا» (1918م) و«أفروز بك» (1919م) و«يالنيز أفه» (1919م)، ومن مجموعات قصصه «حرم» (1918م) و«يوكسك أوكچلر» (1922م) و«كيزلي معبد» (1923م) و«بياز لاله» (1938م). {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} كتب قصائده الطورانية بين 1914 و1917م، وبقيت استراتيجيته القصصية — حدث يوقظ بطله ويغيّر موقفه — أثرًا باقيًا في القصة التركية. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المواقف والنقد",
     "markdown": "يُقرأ هذا القسم بوصفه عرضًا لمواقف منقولة عن المصادر، لا حكمًا من المتحف.\n\nارتبط اسمه بحركة الأدب القومي وبرنامج «اللغة الجديدة» الذي نادى بتبسيط التركية وتقريبها من لغة الكلام، وهي مواقف أدبية وقومية لا تنطق بمذهب ديني لصاحبها. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} ولا يسمّي أي مصدر مذهبًا له بنفسه: فحقل الديانة في صندوق معلومات المقالة العربية فارغ، والمقالتان الإنجليزية والتركية بلا حقل للديانة، وتقتصر ويكيبيانات على قيمة عامة هي «الإسلام»، ولذلك يظل مذهبه في هذا السجل غير مُسمّى. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-ar} {cite:wikidata-omer-seyfettin}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- المقالة الإنجليزية والتركية والعربية في ويكيبيديا عن عمر سيف الدين، وعنصر ويكيبيانات Q297504. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-tr} {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-ar} {cite:wikidata-omer-seyfettin}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ömer Seyfettin (11 March 1884 – 6 March 1920) was a Turkish writer, officer and teacher, born at Gönen and died of diabetes at Istanbul, aged thirty-six. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-tr} With Ziya Gökalp and Ali Canip Yöntem he founded the magazine Genç Kalemler (Young Pens) at Salonica in 1911, the starting point of the national-literature movement and its programme of simplifying Turkish. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} He is counted a founder of the modern Turkish short story; his best-known works are Ashâb-ı Kehfimiz, Efruz Bey and Yalnız Efe. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life and career",
     "markdown": "Ömer Seyfettin was born at Gönen, the son of a military official, entered the Military Academy and graduated in 1903 as a lieutenant, serving on the empire's western borders including Kuşadası. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} He served with the Action Army in 1909 and taught at İzmir, was recalled in the First Balkan War, was defeated at Yanina in January 1913 and spent about twelve months as a prisoner of war in Greece. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} He left the army in 1914, taught literature at Istanbul and became chief author of Türk Yurdu, published most of his stories from 1917, and wrote for Büyük Mecmua in 1919–1920. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-tr} He was hospitalised at Haydarpaşa on 23 February 1920; an autopsy found undiagnosed diabetes, the cause of his death on 6 March 1920, and his remains were moved to Zincirlikuyu Cemetery in 1939. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Works",
     "markdown": "His short novels include Ashâb-ı Kehfimiz (1918), Efruz Bey (1919) and Yalnız Efe (1919), and his story collections include Harem (1918), Yüksek Ökçeler (1922), Gizli Mabed (1923) and Beyaz Lale (1938). {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} He wrote Turanist poems between 1914 and 1917, and his narrative strategy — an event that wakes his hero and changes his stance — left a lasting mark on the Turkish story. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Positions and criticism",
     "markdown": "This section is read as a presentation of positions reported from the sources, not as a verdict of the museum.\n\nHis name is bound to the national-literature movement and the \"New Language\" programme of simplifying Turkish towards the spoken tongue — literary and national positions that name no religious school for their holder. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} No source names a school for the man himself: the Arabic article's infobox religion field is empty, the English and Turkish articles carry no religion field, and Wikidata gives only the generic value Islam, so his school is left unnamed in this entry. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-ar} {cite:wikidata-omer-seyfettin}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- The English, Turkish and Arabic Wikipedia articles on Ömer Seyfettin, and Wikidata item Q297504. {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-tr} {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-ar} {cite:wikidata-omer-seyfettin}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "عمر سیف الدین (پیدائش: گونن، 11 مارچ 1884ء – وفات: استنبول، 6 مارچ 1920ء) ترک مصنف، فوجی افسر اور استاد تھے، جو چھتیس برس کی عمر میں ذیابیطس سے وفات پا گئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-tr} انہوں نے 1911ء میں ضیا گوک الپ اور علی جانیب کے ساتھ سلونیکا سے «گنج قلملر» جاری کیا، جو قومی ادب کی تحریک اور ترکی زبان کی سادگی کے پروگرام کا آغاز تھا۔ {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} وہ جدید ترک افسانے کے بانیوں میں شمار ہوتے ہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی اور کارنامہ",
     "markdown": "وہ ایک فوجی افسر کے بیٹے تھے، 1903ء میں فوجی اکیڈمی سے فارغ ہوئے اور مغربی سرحدوں پر خدمات انجام دیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} بلقان جنگ میں یانینا کے بعد تقریباً بارہ ماہ یونان میں قیدی رہے، 1914ء میں فوج چھوڑی اور استنبول میں ادب پڑھانے لگے۔ {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} 23 فروری 1920ء کو حیدر پاشا اسپتال میں داخل ہوئے اور 6 مارچ 1920ء کو وفات پائی؛ ان کی باقیات 1939ء میں زنجیرلی کویو قبرستان منتقل کی گئیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "کام",
     "markdown": "ان کے مختصر ناولوں میں «اصحابِ کہفمیز» (1918ء)، «افروز بے» (1919ء) اور «یالنیز افے» (1919ء) شامل ہیں، اور افسانوی مجموعوں میں «حرم» اور «بیاز لالہ» معروف ہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} ان کی تحریریں قومی ادب اور زبان کی اصلاح کی تحریک کا حصہ تھیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- عمر سیف الدین پر انگریزی، ترکی اور عربی ویکیپیڈیا کے مضامین، اور ویکی ڈیٹا آئٹم Q297504۔ {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-en} {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-tr} {cite:wikipedia-omer-seyfettin-ar} {cite:wikidata-omer-seyfettin}"
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