Hasan Sabri Ayvazov

حسن صبري أيفازوف

6 May 1878 CE · 4 Jumada I 1295 AH† – 17 April 1938 CE · 17 Safar 1357 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Crimean Tatar writer, literary critic and educator of Ismail Gasprinsky's circle: a contributor to Gasprinsky's Tercüman as a student in Istanbul and its editor from 1914, editor of the newspaper Millet in 1917 and twice chairman of the Crimean Qurultay in 1918. Arrested by the NKVD in 1937 after an earlier arrest in 1930, he was shot on 17 April 1938.