printed in Istanbul by the Kader publishing house. Other short-lived publications he started during the period include Tesvik, Mektep ve Aile, and, with Cevdet Kemal, Isik. In early 1918, when the Qurultay proclaimed a Crimean People's Republic in the wake of the October Revolution and upon the close of World War I, Niyazi left for Simferopol (Aqmescit), where he joined Tatar activists in their campaign, edited the Hak Ses newspaper, and for a while was employed by the Crimean Ministry of Education. When the Bolshevik Red Army troops entered Crimea (see Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), he took refuge in Romania. From that moment on, Mehmet Niyazi concentrated on literary activities, entering the most prolific phase of his career. He published his works in the Arabic alphabet version of Crimean Tatar. As a community leader, he was an influence on a new wave of Crimean refugees who sought inspiration in the Second Polish Republic's Prometheist policies. Suffering from tuberculosis, he died as a result of the disease, having his last years clouded by the death of his wife Sefika. He was buried in Medgidia, with a ceremony that attracted a large crowd of his admirers. His large-scale grave (mezar) was argued to have been the first modern one to bear the tamgha present on the Crimean Khanate's flag (see Flag of Crimea). The location endured as a rallying point for the Tatar community. References Crimean Tatar schoolteachers Crimean Tatar poets Crimean Tatar writers Crimean Tatar journalists Romanian people of Crimean Tatar descent Romanian Muslims 20th-century journalists from the Ottoman Empire Male poets from the Ottoman Empire Romanian schoolteachers Romanian activists Romanian magazine editors Romanian magazine founders Romanian newspaper editors Romanian newspaper founders People from Constanța County Romanian people of World War I People of the Russian Revolution Soviet emigrants to Romania 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Romania 1878 births 1931 deaths 19th-century male writers 20th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire 20th-century Romanian poets Romanian male poets Male non-fiction writers