Ali Riza Seyfi

Ali Rıza Seyfi (1879-1958), born Ali Rıza Seyfioğlu, was a Turkish novelist, historian and poet. His 1928 novel Kazıklı Voyvoda is an unauthorized reworking of Bram Stoker's Dracula set in Istanbul, the first version of the story to identify the Count plainly with the historical Vlad the Impaler. It…