See Also: Gasprinski, Ismail(encyclopedia)
Ismail (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Kadare, Ismail(encyclopedia)
Imeni Ismail Samani Peak(encyclopedia)
Sariyer Ismail Akgun Devlet Hastanesi(health)

Gasprinski, Ismail (sh)




born งใ 1851, near Bakhchisaray, Crimea, Russian Empire
died Sept. 11, 1914, Bakhchisaray

Russian-born Turkish journalist.

Educated in Moscow, his travels brought him to Paris, where he met refugees from the Ottoman Empire who inspired him to take up the Turkish cause at home. He wrote about the cultural problems of Turkic Muslims for a Russian newspaper and later for his own bilingual paper, Tercuman (founded 1883), which became Russia's most influential Turkish-language newspaper, advocating Pan-Islamism and Pan-Turkism. He was a committed advocate of educational reform.