Yunus Emre

Yunus Emre

male
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....

Fuzûlî

male, deceased (1556)
Fuzûlî is generally believed to have been born around 1483 in what is now Iraq, when the area was under Ak Koyunlu Turkmen rule; he was probably bo...

Cemal Süreya

male, deceased (1990)
Cemal Süreya was a Turkish poet and writer. He graduated from the Political Sciences Faculty of Ankara University. He was the editor-in-chief of t...

Ahmet Haşim

male, deceased (1933)
Ahmet Haşim, also written as Ahmed Hâşim was an influential Turkish poet of the early 20th century.
Pir Sultan Abdal

Pir Sultan Abdal

male
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...

Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil

male, deceased (1945)
Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil (1867 in İstanbul - 27 March 1945 in İstanbul) was a Turkish author. He moved with his father, a merchant, to İzmir, in 1879,...
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

male, deceased (1962)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar was one of the most important modern novelists and essayists of Turkish literature. He was also a member of the Turkish p...

Nasreddin

male
Nasreddin was a satirical sufi figure who lived during the Middle Ages (around 13th century), somewhere in Greater Khorasan. Many nations of the...

Hasan Ali Toptaş

male
Hasan Ali Toptaş is a prominent Turkish novelist and short story writer. He was born in Denizli, Turkey. His first short story book "Bir G...
Imadaddin Nasimi

Imadaddin Nasimi

male
Imadeddin Nasimi (?–1417?) was a 14th-century Sufi poet ("Nasimi" was his pen name, or takhallus). He has written poetry in Turkish and Persian an...