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  "ar": "يحيى كمال بياتلي",
  "en": "Yahya Kemal Beyatlı",
  "ur": "یحییٰ کمال بیاتلی"
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  "ar": "شاعر وكاتب وسياسي ودبلوماسي تركي، وُلد في سكوبيه سنة 1884 وتوفي في إسطنبول سنة 1958. عاش في باريس شابًا، وعاد إلى إسطنبول سنة 1912 أستاذًا وشاعرًا معروفًا، وكان نائبًا في البرلمان وسفيرًا لتركيا في بولندا والبرتغال وباكستان، وجعل شعره مبنيًا على النغم والإيقاع الداخلي ومشحونًا بحنين الحضارة العثمانية ومدينة إسطنبول.",
  "en": "Turkish poet, author, politician and diplomat, born at Skopje in 1884 and died at Istanbul in 1958. He spent his youth in Paris, returned to Istanbul in 1912 as a known poet and professor, sat as a deputy in parliament and served as Turkey's ambassador to Poland, Portugal and Pakistan; his poetry is built on melody and inner rhythm and is charged with longing for Ottoman civilisation and for Istanbul.",
  "ur": "ترک شاعر، مصنف، سیاست دان اور سفارت کار، 1884ء میں سکوپیے میں پیدا ہوئے اور 1958ء میں استنبول میں وفات پائی۔ جوانی پیرس میں گزاری، 1912ء میں استنبول لوٹے، رکنِ پارلیمان رہے اور پولینڈ، پرتگال اور پاکستان میں ترکی کے سفیر رہے؛ ان کی شاعری نغمے اور عثمانی تہذیب کی یاد سے بھرپور ہے۔"
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  "earliest": 1884.9195397578321,
  "latest": 1958.8348152254691
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   "edtf": "1884-12-02",
   "hijri": "1302",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born at Skopje on 2 December 1884: the English, Turkish and Arabic articles and Wikidata all give this day. The Hijri year 1302 is the tabular conversion of 2 December 1884 (13 Safar 1302) and is marked derived. Skopje has no place entity in the museum, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1958-11-01",
   "hijri": "1378",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died at Istanbul on 1 November 1958: the English, Turkish and Arabic articles agree. Wikidata carries two death values, 1 and 2 November 1958; the record follows the articles' 1 November and states the second value here. The Hijri year 1378 is the tabular conversion of 1 November 1958 (18 Rabi al-Thani 1378) and is marked derived.",
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    "value": "يحيى كمال بياتلي",
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   {
    "value": "Yahya Kemal Beyatlı",
    "kind": "full"
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    "value": "Ahmet Âgâh",
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    "value": "Yahya Kemal",
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    "value": "Agâh Kemal",
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    "value": "Esrar",
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    "value": "Mehmet Agâh",
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   {
    "value": "Süleyman Sadi",
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   "note": "Born at Skopje on 2 December 1884: the English, Turkish and Arabic articles and Wikidata all give this day. The Hijri year 1302 is the tabular conversion of 2 December 1884 (13 Safar 1302) and is marked derived. Skopje has no place entity in the museum, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1958-11-01",
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   "note": "Died at Istanbul on 1 November 1958: the English, Turkish and Arabic articles agree. Wikidata carries two death values, 1 and 2 November 1958; the record follows the articles' 1 November and states the second value here. The Hijri year 1378 is the tabular conversion of 1 November 1958 (18 Rabi al-Thani 1378) and is marked derived.",
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    "note": "What each source gives, stated exactly: no source names a school for Yahya Kemal himself. The English article's infobox carries no religion field, and its text says only that his poetry shows a sensibility towards Islam, that his first religion lessons came from his mother and that he grew up in a household where hymns and chants were sung — upbringing and poetic theme, not attestation. The Turkish article likewise carries no religion field and names no school. 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. Under the two-source rule and the doubt rule his school is therefore left unknown, with these readings preserved here.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Yahya Kemal Beyatlı' (revision 1371893164), Turkish Wikipedia 'Yahya Kemal Beyatlı' (revision 37016276), Arabic Wikipedia 'يحيى كمال بياتلي' (revision 75530277) and Urdu Wikipedia 'یحییٰ کمال بیاتلی' (revision 12070305), read on 26 October 2026, with Wikidata item Q607246. The harvest queue's years (1884–1958) are confirmed. The disagreements are stated in the notes rather than merged: Wikidata's second death value (2 November 1958) against the articles' 1 November. No record of this person existed in the museum under any spelling, fragment or QID before this build.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "يحيى كمال بياتلي (مولود باسم أحمد آگاه؛ 2 ديسمبر 1884م – 1 نوفمبر 1958م) شاعر وكاتب وسياسي ودبلوماسي تركي، وُلد في سكوبيه وتوفي في إسطنبول. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-tr} تحمل ويكيبيانات قيمتين لوفاته (1 و2 نوفمبر 1958م)، ويتّبع هذا السجل المقالات الثلاث المتفقة على 1 نوفمبر. {cite:wikidata-yahya-kemal-beyatli} كتب باسم «يحيى كمال» وبأسماء قلمية منها آگاه كمال وإسرار ومحمد آگاه وسليمان سادي، وأصبح لقبه «بياتلي» اسمًا لعائلته بعد قانون الألقاب سنة 1934م. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} يوصف شعره بأنه امتداد للتراث الكلاسيكي بأسلوب حديث، مبنيّ على إحساس راسخ بإيقاع اللغة التركية ونغمها، وقصيدته «عزيز إسطنبول» من أشهر قصائده المديحية للمدينة. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "وُلد يحيى كمال في سكوبيه سنة 1884م، ونشأ في بيت كانت تُنشد فيه الأناشيد الدينية، وتلقّى دروسه الأولى في الدين على يد أمه. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} هاجر شابًا إلى باريس سنة 1903م حيث اختلط بدوائر المناوئين للنظام، ثم عاد إلى إسطنبول سنة 1912م، وصار أستاذًا لتاريخ الأدب الغربي في جامعة إسطنبول سنة 1915م بتوصية من زيا كوك ألب. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} أسس مع أحمد هاشم مجلة «دركاه» سنة 1921م، ودخل البرلمان نائبًا عن أورفة (1923–1926م) ثم يوزغاد وتكيرداغ وإسطنبول، وعُيّن سفيرًا في بولندا (1926–1929م) ثم البرتغال (1930–1932م) ومبعوثًا إلى مدريد، وكان أول سفير لتركيا في باكستان سنة 1947م، وعاد إلى إسطنبول سنة 1949م بعد أن ساءت صحته. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-tr} توفي في إسطنبول في 1 نوفمبر 1958م ودُفن في مقبرة آشيان. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأعمال",
     "markdown": "صدرت أعماله النثرية تباعًا بعد وفاته: «عزيز إسطنبول» (1964م)، و«إكيل داغلار» (1966م)، و«حكايات سياسية» (1968م)، و«صور سياسية وأدبية» (1968م)، و«حول الأدب» (1971م)، و«محادثات في التاريخ» (1975م)، و«قصائد لم تتم» (1976م)، إضافة إلى مذكراته «طفولتي وشبابي ومذكراتي السياسية والأدبية» (1973م). {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} بنى شعره على النظم العروضي في أكثره مع تجديد الصورة، وخلط في قصيدته المشهورة «سسّز كمي» (السفينة الصامتة) بين النغم والحنين إلى ما مضى. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المواقف والنقد",
     "markdown": "يُقرأ هذا القسم بوصفه عرضًا لمواقف منقولة عن المصادر، لا حكمًا من المتحف.\n\nيُذكر عنه في المصادر اهتمامه بموروث الشعر التركي الكلاسيكي وسعيه إلى تجديده لا قطعه، حتى صار شعره صلة وصل بين الأدب العثماني وأدب الجمهورية. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} وتشير المقالة الإنجليزية إلى أن شعره يكشف حساسية تجاه الإسلام، وإلى أن والدته كانت معلمته الأولى في الدين — ولا يسمّي أي مصدر مذهبًا له بنفسه: فحقل الديانة في صندوق معلومات المقالة العربية فارغ، وتقتصر ويكيبيانات على قيمة عامة هي «الإسلام»، ولذلك يظل مذهبه في هذا السجل غير مُسمّى. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-ar} {cite:wikidata-yahya-kemal-beyatli}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- المقالة الإنجليزية والتركية والعربية والأردية في ويكيبيديا عن يحيى كمال بياتلي، وعنصر ويكيبيانات Q607246. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-tr} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-ar} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-ur} {cite:wikidata-yahya-kemal-beyatli}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (born Ahmet Âgâh; 2 December 1884 – 1 November 1958) was a Turkish poet, author, politician and diplomat, born at Skopje and died at Istanbul. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-tr} Wikidata carries two death values for him (1 and 2 November 1958); this entry follows the three articles, which agree on 1 November. {cite:wikidata-yahya-kemal-beyatli} He wrote as Yahya Kemal and under pen names including Agâh Kemal, Esrar, Mehmet Agâh and Süleyman Sadi, and took Beyatlı as his surname after the 1934 Surname Law. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} His poetry is described as a modern continuation of the classical tradition, built on a close feel for the rhythm and melody of Turkish, and his poem \"Aziz İstanbul\" is among his most famous praises of the city. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life and career",
     "markdown": "Yahya Kemal was born at Skopje in 1884, grew up in a household where hymns and chants were sung, and received his first lessons in religion from his mother. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} He left for Paris as a young man in 1903 and moved in anti-regime exile circles, returned to Istanbul in 1912, and became a professor of the History of Western Literature at Istanbul University in 1915 on Ziya Gökalp's recommendation. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} He co-founded the magazine Dergâh with Ahmet Haşim in 1921, sat in parliament as deputy for Urfa (1923–1926), Yozgat, Tekirdağ and Istanbul, and served as ambassador to Poland (1926–1929) and Portugal (1930–1932) and envoy to Madrid, then as Turkey's first ambassador to Pakistan in 1947; his health failing, he returned to Istanbul in 1949. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-tr} He died at Istanbul on 1 November 1958 and was buried at Aşiyan Asri Cemetery. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Works",
     "markdown": "His prose appeared in volume after his death: Aziz İstanbul (1964), Eğil Dağlar (1966), Siyasi Hikayeler (1968), Siyasi ve Edebi Portreler (1968), Edebiyata Dair (1971), Tarih Müsahabeleri (1975) and Bitmemiş Şiirler (1976), together with his memoirs Çocukluğum, Gençliğim, Siyasi ve Edebi Hatıralarım (1973). {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} Much of his verse is in the classical aruz metre with a renewed imagery, and his celebrated poem \"Sessiz Gemi\" (The Silent Ship) joins melody to a longing for what is past. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-tr}"
    },
    {
     "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\nThe sources present his devotion to the classical Turkish poetic heritage and his effort to renew rather than break it, so that his verse became a bridge between Ottoman and Republican literature. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} The English article also notes that his poetry reveals a sensibility towards Islam and that his mother was his first teacher of religion — but no source names a school for the man himself: the Arabic article's infobox religion field is empty, and Wikidata gives only the generic value Islam, so his school is left unnamed in this entry. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-ar} {cite:wikidata-yahya-kemal-beyatli}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- The English, Turkish, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles on Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, and Wikidata item Q607246. {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-tr} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-ar} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-ur} {cite:wikidata-yahya-kemal-beyatli}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "یحییٰ کمال بیاتلی (پیدائش: سکوپیے، 2 دسمبر 1884ء – وفات: استنبول، 1 نومبر 1958ء) ترک شاعر، مصنف، سیاست دان اور سفارت کار تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-ur} ویکی ڈیٹا ان کی وفات کی دو تاریخیں (1 اور 2 نومبر 1958ء) دیتا ہے؛ اس اندراج میں تینوں مضامین کی متفقہ تاریخ 1 نومبر اختیار کی گئی ہے۔ {cite:wikidata-yahya-kemal-beyatli} وہ «یحییٰ کمال» اور کئی قلمی ناموں سے لکھتے تھے، اور 1934ء کے قانون کے بعد «بیاتلی» ان کا خاندانی نام ہوا۔ {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی اور کارنامہ",
     "markdown": "وہ 1884ء میں سکوپیے میں پیدا ہوئے اور گھر میں مذہبی نشیدوں کے ماحول میں پلے بڑھے؛ ان کی والدہ نے انہیں دین کی ابتدائی تعلیم دی۔ {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} 1903ء میں پیرس گئے، 1912ء میں استنبول لوٹے اور 1915ء میں استنبول یونیورسٹی میں مغربی ادب کی تاریخ کے استاد ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} وہ رکنِ پارلیمان رہے اور پولینڈ، پرتگال اور پھر 1947ء میں پاکستان میں ترکی کے سفیر رہے، اور 1958ء میں استنبول میں وفات پائی۔ {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "کام",
     "markdown": "ان کی نثری کتب وفات کے بعد شائع ہوئیں، جن میں «عزیز استنبول» (1964ء) اور ان کی یادداشتیں (1973ء) شامل ہیں، اور ان کی نظم «عزیز استنبول» شہر کی مدح میں مشہور ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-ur} ان کی شاعری کلاسیکی روایت کی جدید توسیع سمجھی جاتی ہے، جس میں ترکی زبان کے نغمے اور عثمانی تہذیب کی یاد بنیادی عناصر ہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- یحییٰ کمال بیاتلی پر انگریزی، ترکی، عربی اور اردو ویکیپیڈیا کے مضامین، اور ویکی ڈیٹا آئٹم Q607246۔ {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-en} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-tr} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-ar} {cite:wikipedia-yahya-kemal-beyatli-ur} {cite:wikidata-yahya-kemal-beyatli}"
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