Orhan Şaik Gökyay

Orhan Şaik Gökyay, (born 16 July 1902, İnebolu – 2 December 1994), was a Turkish literature history and language researcher, poet, teacher.

Biography
He was born on 16 July 1902 in İnebolu, where his father worked as a literature teacher. He is one of the seven children of a family that migrated from Plovdiv, Bulgaria to Anatolia after the Russo-Turkish War. His father was Mehmet Cevdet Efendi and his mother Şefika Hanım. His real name was Hüseyin Vehbi but he changed his name to "Orhan" in accordance with the circular issued during the period of Rıza Nur's ministry of national education on "every student takes a Turkish name".