Biography
Rauf Yekta Bey was born on March 27 1871, in the Aksaray area of Istanbul, Turkey to his father Ahmed Arif Bey. Rauf Yekta spoke 3 languages: French, Arabic and Persian. He was a government official. Zeliha Han married Rauf Yekta Bey and they had two sons and two daughters.
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