His uncle, Col. REFIYI ˆ K KADI ´ R (1878, Constant ¸a – 1929, Dobrich) is
esteemed as a hero of the Romanian Army, whose military career begun at the
Military secondary school in Ias ¸i. Taken prisoner while fighting in World War I, by
the end of the war, once released, he served in the garrisons of Chernivtsi and
Kishinev and returned to Dobruja, he linked his name to the 40th “Ca ˘luga ˘reni”
Infantry Regiment in Pazarjik (Dobrich). He was a friend of Senator Selim
Abdulakim and Nicolae Iorga. (Agi-Amet 1999, 142–3)
KADRIYE NURMAMBET (1933, Dobrich – 2009) was not just a Tatar,
Crimean, Dobrujan folk singer and The Nightingale of Dobruja, a darling of the
scene of Romanian Athenaeum, with discs released at Electrecord, in 1960, 1963,
1974, 1980, 1982, and 1989, a folklorist contributing to Golden Sound Archive of
the Ethnography and Folklore Institute of Bucharest. (Wikipedia 2016a, b, c) She
was also a lawyer educated at the University of Bucharest, and the first female
Crimean Tatar lawyer in Romania (serving in the Constanta Bar Association).
(Wikipedia 2016a, b, c).
EMIN BEKTO ´ RE (1906–1995) was a Dobrujan, Crimean and Tatar folklorist,
ethnographer, lyricist and a militant for ethnic Tatar causes. (Wkipedia 2016a, b, c)
He was educated in Romania, organized several Crimean Tatar folk groups, writing
and directing school plays (Bora, Kı ˆrı ˆm, K ok-k oz Bayar). In 1930, in Constanta, he
found the Crimean Tatar journal Emel. After a decade Bekto ´re immigrated to
Turkey continuing there his Tatar folklore activities, teaching and initiating ethnography and folklore initiatives in Turkey. He contributed decisively to the
inclusion of Crimean Tatar ethnic dance and music in the educational curriculum
in the province of Eskis ¸ehir. (Wikipedia 2016a, b, c).
The historian of Dobrujan origin, KEMAL KARPAT (Kemal Has ¸im O ¨ mer, born
in 1923, at Turda), Professor and White House consultant (for Carter, Reagan and
Bush, on Eastern matters), a polyglote (Romanian, Turkish, Tatar, English etc.) is
especially proud of his roots. (Gazetarul 2015) He lives in the USA and he was
recently celebrated by the Democratic Union of the Muslim Turkish Tatars in
Romania, Bucharest branch. At the occasion he mentioned: “I left Romania
73 years ago, but I strived to cultivate my native tongue, the language in which I
read hundreds and hundreds of novels, the language in which I initiated myself
within the world of research and universal knowledge. I tried to keep the Romanian
languagefor the love I felt for it, for its beauty and its sonorities. I was born in
Dobruja and all my life I remained a Dobrujan. The land has its charms and the
tremendous power to remain deeply in the souls of the people”. His walk down the
memory lane evoked the map of Dobruja in his study, the Carpathian Mountains in
his soul and spirit (which he had never seen, but were evoked by his new name,
Karpat, which he decided to adopt) and also the figure of the Romanian Queen
Mary who left her heart at Balcic. After his PhD in Public and Political Law at the
Law Faculty of the University in Istanbul, he begun his academic career in the USA
where he lived since 1950. He had a PhD as well from the New York University, in
1957, where he became Government Professor (1962–1967). He was scientific
researcher at Harvard University (1960–1961). Since 1967, he was Professor at
Wisconsin University, until 2003, when he retired, aged 80, and with the academic
title of Distinguished Professor. (Gazetarul 2015).
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esteemed as a hero of the Romanian Army, whose military career begun at the
Military secondary school in Ias ¸i. Taken prisoner while fighting in World War I, by
the end of the war, once released, he served in the garrisons of Chernivtsi and
Kishinev and returned to Dobruja, he linked his name to the 40th “Ca ˘luga ˘reni”
Infantry Regiment in Pazarjik (Dobrich). He was a friend of Senator Selim
Abdulakim and Nicolae Iorga. (Agi-Amet 1999, 142–3)
KADRIYE NURMAMBET (1933, Dobrich – 2009) was not just a Tatar,
Crimean, Dobrujan folk singer and The Nightingale of Dobruja, a darling of the
scene of Romanian Athenaeum, with discs released at Electrecord, in 1960, 1963,
1974, 1980, 1982, and 1989, a folklorist contributing to Golden Sound Archive of
the Ethnography and Folklore Institute of Bucharest. (Wikipedia 2016a, b, c) She
was also a lawyer educated at the University of Bucharest, and the first female
Crimean Tatar lawyer in Romania (serving in the Constanta Bar Association).
(Wikipedia 2016a, b, c).
EMIN BEKTO ´ RE (1906–1995) was a Dobrujan, Crimean and Tatar folklorist,
ethnographer, lyricist and a militant for ethnic Tatar causes. (Wkipedia 2016a, b, c)
He was educated in Romania, organized several Crimean Tatar folk groups, writing
and directing school plays (Bora, Kı ˆrı ˆm, K ok-k oz Bayar). In 1930, in Constanta, he
found the Crimean Tatar journal Emel. After a decade Bekto ´re immigrated to
Turkey continuing there his Tatar folklore activities, teaching and initiating ethnography and folklore initiatives in Turkey. He contributed decisively to the
inclusion of Crimean Tatar ethnic dance and music in the educational curriculum
in the province of Eskis ¸ehir. (Wikipedia 2016a, b, c).
The historian of Dobrujan origin, KEMAL KARPAT (Kemal Has ¸im O ¨ mer, born
in 1923, at Turda), Professor and White House consultant (for Carter, Reagan and
Bush, on Eastern matters), a polyglote (Romanian, Turkish, Tatar, English etc.) is
especially proud of his roots. (Gazetarul 2015) He lives in the USA and he was
recently celebrated by the Democratic Union of the Muslim Turkish Tatars in
Romania, Bucharest branch. At the occasion he mentioned: “I left Romania
73 years ago, but I strived to cultivate my native tongue, the language in which I
read hundreds and hundreds of novels, the language in which I initiated myself
within the world of research and universal knowledge. I tried to keep the Romanian
languagefor the love I felt for it, for its beauty and its sonorities. I was born in
Dobruja and all my life I remained a Dobrujan. The land has its charms and the
tremendous power to remain deeply in the souls of the people”. His walk down the
memory lane evoked the map of Dobruja in his study, the Carpathian Mountains in
his soul and spirit (which he had never seen, but were evoked by his new name,
Karpat, which he decided to adopt) and also the figure of the Romanian Queen
Mary who left her heart at Balcic. After his PhD in Public and Political Law at the
Law Faculty of the University in Istanbul, he begun his academic career in the USA
where he lived since 1950. He had a PhD as well from the New York University, in
1957, where he became Government Professor (1962–1967). He was scientific
researcher at Harvard University (1960–1961). Since 1967, he was Professor at
Wisconsin University, until 2003, when he retired, aged 80, and with the academic
title of Distinguished Professor. (Gazetarul 2015).
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