Can Yücel (1962-1999) was a Turkish poet. Born in İstanbul, he was the son of a former Minister of National Education, Hasan Ali Yücel, and a grandchild of an Ottoman sea captain who perished with the frigate Ertuğrul. Yücel studied Latin and Ancient Greek at Ankara and Cambridge Universities. He later worked as translator in several embassies and in the Turkish language section of the BBC in London. After his return to Turkey in 1958, he briefly worked as a tourist guide in Bodrum and Marmaris, and then lived in Istanbul where he worked as a freelance translator and started writing poetry.

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