bey K. Ziya Mufti-zada

Known in print as K. Ziya Mufti-zada, bey, he is associated with the 1922 book Speaking of the Turks, published by Duffield and Company in New York. The book presents a personal view of Constantinople (now Istanbul) and Turkish society, blending remembered experience with reflections on everyday life, customs, education, religion, and national identity.

From the book's own opening and catalog records, he describes Constantinople as his native city and says he had spent nearly ten years in America before returning. That perspective gives his writing a distinctive tone: part homecoming, part travel narrative, and part attempt to explain Turkish life to English-language readers during a turbulent period.

Reliable biographical details about his wider life are scarce in the sources I could confirm during this search, so it is safest to remember him mainly through this surviving work. Speaking of the Turks remains of interest as a firsthand cultural portrait from the early 1920s and as the voice of an author writing across cultures at a moment of major historical change.