Abstract
Fazil Hüsnü Daĝlarca was born in 1914 in Istanbul and graduated from the Kuleli Military Lycée and War Academy. His published works amount to thirty-five volumes, all of them poetry. His works have been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Russian and Japanese and his Selected Poems appeared in Talat Sait Halman's translations in 1969 (University of Pittsburgh Press), which won the Turkish Award of the International Poetry Forum. Daĝlarca is commonly regarded as being Turkey's greatest living poet, but on 31 July 1972 he was arrested on a trumped-up charge of possessing an old pistol left over from his army service and released 14 days later. While in jail he wrote 40 poems