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Cenab Şehabeddin (1871-1934) is considered the most important poet of the literary movement called the Servet-i Fünûn Period in Turkish literature, especially on the poetry side. The understanding of art he developed after he was sent to Paris to study medicine and the innovations he brought from Europe also played a big role in this. He closely followed the western artists of the period, especially accepted the Naturalists' view of literature, tried new verse forms, and paved the way for new Turkish poetry with unprecedented images and imagery. He went beyond his own generation and influenced subsequent poets. Although Cenab Şehabeddin spends the most time on poetry among literary genres, he is a versatile artist who has proven himself in more than one genre such as essays, anecdotes, travel writing, humor and plays. Among these genres, the stories in which he wrote did not attract much attention from literary researchers. Today, the nine stories identified must not seem very noteworthy in the face of his large oeuvre. In this article, the themes in Cenab Şehabeddin's stories have been tried to be determined, and since the dominant theme is love, a comparison has been made regarding how the theme of love is handled between the artist's poems and stories. In addition to his stories based on male-female relations such as love, family and marriage, he also has stories dealing with illness and the feeling of homeland. Cenab Şehabeddin deserves to be the direct representative of Turkish storytelling of the Servet-i Fünûn period in terms of language and aesthetic attitude. He is the name that brings the understanding of language and literature of this period to his story.