Sedat SIMAVI 1896-1953

He is a Turkish journalist, author, and cartoonist.
He was born in İstanbul in 1896. After completing some of his secondary and high school education at Saint Joseph French High School in Kadıköy, he transferred to Galatasaray High School and graduated in 1912. He started teaching history at Galatasaray High School.
After this short service, he started his writing life.
He published humor magazines such as İnci, Diken, and Karikatür. In 1916, he started to publish weekly magazine Hande.
The films Casus, Pençe and Bican Efendi, directed by Sedat Simavi in 1917, are the first domestic fictional films in the history of cinema.
Simavi, who also works in the field of humor, has cartoon albums called Yeni Zenginler and Kadınlar Saltanatı. By publishing Yedigün, the most famous weekly magazine of its time, he brought great innovations in magazine publishing to the Turkish press life.
In 1920, he published a daily newspaper called Dersaadet.
During the War of Independence, he published the humor magazine Güleryüz. Between 1921 and 1930, he published many magazines such as Hanım, Hacıyatmaz, Yıldız, Meraklı Gazeteci, Yeni Kitap, Arkadaş. In 1935, he took over the publishing of the magazine Karagöz.
He was one of the founders of the Turkish Journalists Association, which was founded in 1946, and served as its president until 1949.
On May 1, 1948, he founded the newspaper Hürriyet and made it the most widely read newspaper in Türkiye.
He wrote editorials in Hürriyet until the end of his life. Apart from journalism, Sedat Simavi wrote a novel called "Fuji-Yama" and two plays called "Ceza" and "Hürriyet Apartmanı".
He died in İstanbul on December 11, 1953.