Etel Adnan was born on February 24, 1925 in Beirut, Lebanon. His Damascus-born Syrian father, Assaf Kadri, was a retired high-ranking officer in the Ottoman army and a former classmate of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the Turkish Republic. His mother, Rosa Kadri, grew up in the city of Smyrna (now Izmir in …

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