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"Sirkat çoğalıp lafz-ı sadakat modalandı Namus tamam oldu hamiyyet yeni çıktı Sadıkları tahkir ile red kaide oldu Hırsızlara ikram u inayet yeni çıktı Hak söyleyen evvel dahi menfur idi gerçi Hainlere amma ki riayet yeni çıktı İsnad-ı taassub olunur merd-i gayüra Dinsizlere tevcih-i reviyyet yeni çıktı İslam imiş devlete pa-bend-i terakki Evvel yoğ idi işbu rivayet yeni çıktı Milliyyeti nisyanederek her işimizde Efkar-ı frenge tebaiyyet yeni çıktı Eyvah bu baziçede bizler yine yandık Zira ki ziyan ortada bilmem ne kazandık"
Author
Ziya Pasha, pseudonymous of Abdul Hamid Ziyaeddin was an Ottoman writer and translator. He was, along with İbrahim Şinasi and Namik Kemal, one of the most important authors of the Tanzimat period. He held several offices in the Ottoman State. From 1865 he was a leading member of the Young Ottomans. In 1867 he went together with Namik Kemal to Paris and London, where he published a newspaper called Hürriyet (freedom). His return to the Ottoman Empire was followed by tenures as governor of Cyprus, Amasya, Konya, Aleppo and last Adana.
