İsmet Özel
poet from Turkey
İsmet Özel (born 19 September 1944, in Kayseri) is a Turkish poet. He was born in Kayseri, Turkey.
He started his university degree at Political Science Faculty of Ankara University. He graduated from the French language department at Hacettepe University.
In 1970, he published a literature magazine Halkın Dostları with Ataol Behremoğlu, a Turkish poet and Russian linguist. In fact, Ataol Behramoğlu purified his poetry by leaving out crude propaganda and naive didacticism.