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He was a true and courageous leader of both pupils and peoples ~his extraordinary motivating skills had made him a choice of British for pioneering educational and socio-cultural development of many of country’s peoples, and popular in both Turkish and Greek communities –having taught at also British schools pupils varying from Armenian to English etc., also after political independence, while later in course of his community’s adapting to Turkish system of education (as may be suggested by some of his symbolic poems) he appears to have been officially perhaps less appreciated, upon his peacefully passing away –as a cleric of a couple of years in his retirement to make ends meet, press having praised also his patriotism, Leader of Parliament of Turkish Republic of North Cyprus described him as having made both state and nation proud as “A successful modern educator.. who will be, with love and respect, remembered always...”
Acknowledging his wife Suzan Ari (whose own death brought condolences from as far away as Canada -from university teaching staff) as his great helper, with a sense of duty as in his verses, he always pursued idealism:-
“Since to mourn and to remember us there is someone That’s what counts –we can assume our duty to’ve done”
After his death a street was named after O S Ari in Marmara district Nicosia Cyprus
The author's authority is based on the various writings in Turkish, Greek, English, of book authors and newspaper reporters and columnists and poets on the late theacher and thinker Orhan Seyfi Ari