Yunus Emre

Yunus Emre

male
tekerlemeler, Sultan Veled, Ahmet Yesevi, Book of Dede Korkut, Battle of Köse Dag, Turkish folk literature…Anatolian folk poetry, Seljuk Turkish, Turkishfolkpoet, turkish language, turkish
Yunus Emre was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised an immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present....
Pir Sultan Abdal

Pir Sultan Abdal

male
poet, Turkishfolkpoet, Turkish music, Turkic peoples, Turkish literature, turk…turkish
Pir Sultan Abdal (ca. 1480 - 1550), a legendary Sufi poet, whose direct and clear language as well as the richness of his imagination and the...

Karacaoğlan

male, deceased (1680)
Mersin,Mut, Adana, turkish, 17th century, Turkishfolkpoet, poet
Karacaoğlan is a 17th century Turkish folk poet. His exact dates of birth and death are unknown but it is widely accepted that he was born around 1...

Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu

male, deceased (1973)
ashik, Songwriter, Şarkışla, Aşık Veysel, Turkish folk literature, baglama…turkish, Turkishfolkpoet, poet
Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, also known as just Aşık Veysel, was a Turkish minstrel and highly regarded poet of the Turkish folk literature. He was bor...

Salacıoğlu

male, deceased (1825)
poet, sheikh, sufi, hanya, turkish, crete…Ottoman divan poet, Turkishfolkpoet, Turkish Cretan
Salacıoğlu (also named in full as Salacıoğlu Mustafa Celveti or Giritli Salacıoğlu Mustafa Celveti, sometimes with the title sheikh added) was a...

Kul Nesîmî

male
poet, 17th century, baghdad, turkish, ottoman empire, ottoman…Turkishfolkpoet
Kul Nesîmî or simply Nesîmî was an Alevi-Bektashi Turkish poet, who lived in 17th century in Anatolia, Turkey. Very little is known about this poet...