ANKARA
Yunus Nadi Abalioglu, founder and editor of many newspapers and magazines, spent 46 years writing for the freedom of his country.
Nadi took part in the establishment of Anadolu Agency with Halide Edip Adivar, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, whom he met in Salonika in 1910, and spread the National Struggle to the whole country.
The fifth child of Hadji Halil Efendi and Ayse Hanim, Yunus Nadi Abalioglu came to the world on July 1, 1879, in Mekri township of Aydin, whose present name is Fethiye.
Nadi, interested in reading from an early age, received a religious