He had projects for a new school and magazines, however, due to complications from diabetes he refused to treat, he died in 1915 and was buried in the family plot at Eyüp. During the 31 March Incident (31 Mart Vakası) of 1909, he chained himself to the school gates as a protest and resigned the same day. He was eventually disappointed with their politics too, and returned to Galatasaray Lisesi as the principal. In 1908, after the Young Turk Revolution, he began publishing the newspaper Tanin, which became a strong supporter of the ruling party, the Committee of Union and Progress (Ittihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti). In 1896 he became the chief editor of the famous Servet-i Fünun magazine where he worked with other Ottoman literary lumineries such as Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, İsmail Safa, Mehmet Rauf, Samipaşazade Sezai and Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın. In 1894 he published the literary magazine Malûmat. Possessor of a bold, innovative style, his frequent use of arcane words contributed to the difficulty of his works. His works were deeply influenced by the French Symbolists, many of whose works he translated into Turkish. He was investigated by the Ottoman police numerous times because of his political views and writings, and his association with known political opponents of Sultan Abdülhamid II. In 1906, he built a house inside the Robert College campus for his wife and son. He left Galatasaray in 1894 and started teaching at another prestigious institution on the Bosphorus, Robert College, in 1896, where he kept working until his death. In 1890 he married his cousin Nazime, and the couple had a son named Haluk in 1895.

His sister suffered a tragic early death. He received his education at the prestigious Galatasaray Lisesi and graduated in 1888 as the valedictorian with the highest grades. His father (Hüseyin Efendi), originally from Çankırı in Anatolia, was mostly absent, as he was exiled for being a political foe of the ruling regime while his mother (Hatice Refia Hanım), a Greek Muslim convert from the Ottoman island of Sakız (Chios), died when he was very young. Mehmed Tevfik was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, in 1867. Tevfik Fikret (Decem– August 19, 1915) was the pseudonym of Turkish poet Mehmed Tevfik.

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