Oktay Rıfat Horozcu

Oktay Rifat ( from 1934: Oktay Rifat Horozcu; born June 10, 1914 in Trabzon, † April 18, 1988 in Istanbul) was a Turkish lawyer and writer.

During his high school years in Ankara, he befriends with Orhan Veli and Melih Cevdet, with whom he founded the poet group Garip ( foreign -like ). He studied law in Paris. After his return to Turkey, he worked as a lawyer and clerk in the state press and broadcasting office in Ankara. Together with Orhan Veli he participates in May 1950 at a solidarity hunger strike in support of jailed Nâzım Hikmet.

Together with his friends he developed his own style, which overcomes the conventional elements of style Turkish literature and popular and surrealistic elements slipstreams. After the death of Orhan Veli's 1950 Oktay Rifat other modern literary movements used to. In addition to poetry, he also writes plays.

A well-known poem by Oktay Rifat 's " The bread and the stars ".