Abstract:

Namık Kemal was sent to exile with his five friends after his play “Vatan yahut Silistre” was stayed is caused public demonstrations This exile with no time limit would continue until he was rehabilitated His thirty eight year exile in Magosa came to an end with an amnesty after the the crown prince Murat became the sultan Namık Kemal’s letters are voluable sources of information on is life in exile He sometimes given this formation directly but sometimes the neader has to read between the lines First letter vontains the most extensive information on how he was taken from the ship and brought to Magosa his cell which looks more like a grave the night he spent on a thin mattren Then he depicts Magosa we learn about its climate geographical position its plants mosquitoes as big as bees or lizards which are more like alligators Everything in Magosa is negative It is not a place to live Namık Kemal gets malaria and other diseases And he is very disturbed by humidity What is plenty in Magosa is time As he has nothing else to do he devotes himself to literature He produces almost all of his works here The oney work he produces before his exile is “Vatan yahut Silistre” Thus this exile given us the author “Namık Kemal” Undoubtedly his years in exile have caused him to get illnesses parted him from his loved ones and İstanbul and at the some time from politics and journalism On the other hand these hard years made him a very famous writer Key words: Literature and exiling Magosa and exiling Namık Kemal Namık Kemal and exiling

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