Ablakim İlmiy

Biography

Ablakim İlmiy was an essayist who published in İleri under the pen name Altaylı. His work places him within the Crimean Tatar intellectual and literary community associated with the journal, alongside writers whose contributions included poetry, prose, and scholarship.

The available account offers few details about his life. The thesis identifies his essays and pen name but supplies no life dates, so uncertain dates have not been added here. His documented writings provide a firmer basis for identifying him than assumptions drawn from an image filename.

Altaylı and Altanlı are not interchangeable names. Altanlı was the pen name of Abdürahim İlyas Şeyhzade, another contributor to the same journal. Distinguishing them is essential to keeping the two writers' works and biographies separate.

• ODFFU Archive: People Biographies

  Biographical text adapted and translated from the supplied manuscript.

  Consulted 2026-09-14

A pen name easily confused

In its account of the journal's writers, the thesis states that Ablakim İlmiy published essays in İleri under the pen name Altaylı. The name differs by one letter from Altanlı, the pen name of Abdürahim İlyas Şeyhzade, and the two are recorded here as separate people. The thesis gives no life dates for İlmiy.

• Mert Kılıç, Kırım’da Çıkan İleri Dergisi (1928–1930 Yılları), Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Marmara Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, İstanbul, 2023

  Master's thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kanlıdere. Held here only as 13 page-range splits of the 573-page PDF; the complete original file is not in the archive.

Biographical sources

• Mert Kılıç, Kırım’da Çıkan İleri Dergisi (1928–1930 Yılları), Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Marmara Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, İstanbul, 2023

  Master's thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kanlıdere. Held here only as 13 page-range splits of the 573-page PDF; the complete original file is not in the archive.