Oktay Rifat, is one of the most distinguished of 20th-century Turkish poets. He was the son of the poet and linguist Samih Rıfat, who was also the governor of Trabzon. He attended Ankara High School for Boys (1932) and graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Law (1936).
He was appointed to Paris, France by the State Ministry to do his Ph.D., however, came back after three years without completing his degree due to outbreak of World War II.
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