Nazım Hikmet was one of the most influential and distinctive poets of Turkish literature. As an ardent communist, he was influenced by Soviet poet, Vladimir Mayakovski and promoted social realism in his poems. Also, he distinguished himself from the "syllabic poets" in concept and began writing in free verse, which harmonized with the rich vocal properties of the Turkish language. Kuvâyi-Milliye Destanı is one of the most famous poem books of Nazım Hikmet in which he wrote individual stories of
After his death, Hikmet 's books began to reappear in Turkey; in 1965 and 1966, for example, more than twenty of his books were published there, some of them reprints of earlier volumes and others works appearing for the first time. The next fifteen years saw the gradual publication of his eight volume Collected Poems, along with his plays, novels, letters, and even children 's stories. At the same time, various selections of his poems went through multiple printings, and numerous biographies and