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Cemil Seydamet
Writer, journalist, and historian born in Karasubazar; one of İleri's most active writers and for a time its editor-in-chief.
Drawn portrait; artist unidentified.
Artist unidentified · Non-free historical image · Image source
— · Life dates as given in the thesis
Biography
Cemil Seydamet was born in Karasubazar on 21 May 1903. A writer, journalist, and historian, he was an active contributor to İleri and served for a period as its editor-in-chief. The thesis does not specify the dates of his editorship.
His editorial role placed him at the centre of a journal that brought together Crimean Tatar literary and intellectual work. The archive's issue catalogue covers the 1928–1930 numbers, providing a record of the writers and subjects associated with that community as Soviet cultural policy became increasingly restrictive.
Seydamet died in 1977. The supplied account gives considerably more information about his connection to İleri than about the later decades of his life.
- ODFFU Archive: People Biographies
Biographical text adapted and translated from the supplied manuscript.
Consulted 2026-09-14
In the thesis on İleri
The thesis describes Seydamet as a writer, journalist, historian, and intellectual, born in Karasubazar on 21 May 1903, and as one of the journal's most active writers who for a period served as its editor-in-chief. Profiled among the journal's writers in Kılıç (2023), Chapter 1, thesis p. 21.
- 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.