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Artist
Neyzen Tevfik
12+ albums
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Neyzen Tevfik Kolaylı (1879-1953) was a Turkish musician and poet. Tevfik was born on 28th March 1879 in Bodrum, and spent the first nine years of his life in Bodrum, Urla, and Izmir. After attending Bodrum High School, where his father was headmaster, and Urla High School after his father became headmaster there, he was sent to the Izmir Lyceum. At the age of fifteen he began to suffer from epilepsy, however, and was unable to complete his education. At the age of nineteen he was sent to a medrese (religious school), in Istanbul, but didn't take to this system of education and thought, and again left before completing his studies. He educated himself, however, learning French, Arabic, and Persian, and achieved such an understanding of Sufism and mystic thought that he was given special recognition by the master of the subject, Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı. Tevfik's anti-authoritarian and rebellious personality brought him to the attention of the authorities, and he was arrested. After a long and exhausting trial, he was convicted on thirty-five counts, and at the beginning of 1902 he fled the country and went to Egypt, where he stayed until the declaration of the second constitutional monarchy. In 1910 he married, but the marriage failed, and when his daughter Leman was three months old he left his wife. He spent World War l as a soldier under the command of Muhtar Paşa, founder of îhe Army Museum in Istanbul, and as head of the Mehter (Ottoman military band). After the war, he
