But was it really Kaya who brought out so many people on to the streets?
The Mijikenda include nine Bantu-speaking ethnic groups in the Kaya forests of coastal Kenya.
Mr Guler confirmed Mr Kaya has a cousin who is studying in Brighton.
Mahmut Guler, paying tribute to Mr Kaya his friend, said everyone who knew him has been left in total shock.
"We love them, they are our favorite animals, " said Shenal Kaya, a young man who sold fishing tackle by the waterside.
"Solving the problem and ending the war would be seen as a positive step for the AKP's election prospects, " Ms Kaya says.
But Kaya's fans were enraged by his death, and by Monday two of them had also died apparently shot by police during the protests.
The author was inspired by the deserted ruins of a once prosperous coastal town known as Kaya in Turkish and Livisi in Greek.
Omer Kaya, 33, of Leigh-on-Sea, was shot in the neck on Tuesday while sightseeing in San Pedro Sula, the Central American country's second city.
Zeynep Kaya, a researcher at the department of International Relations of the London School of Economics, says it may have been an important factor in initiating the recent peace process.
The issue was crystallised when The Times took up a campaigning stance through journalists like Kaya Burgess and Phillip Pank after one of their colleagues was knocked off a bike by an HGV.
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Once you have finished exploring the forts and palaces, take some time to relax at the exquisite Kaya Kalp, a 99, 000sqft spa located in the ITC Mughal hotel, which takes guests on a sensorial journey back to an era of excess and conquest.
Due to pressure on land resources, urbanization and social transformations, the traditions and cultural practices associated to the Kaya settlements are fast diminishing, posing great danger to the social fabric and cohesiveness of the Mijikenda communities who venerate and celebrate them as their identity and symbol of continuity.
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