Famous Turk Poets - Famous Poets from Turkey
The Turk famous poets section is an educational source of information and inspiration featuring reknown Turk poets. Here you will find famous Turk Poets of our time and times past. Please let us know if we are missing a well-known Turk poet and we'll add him or her.
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Cansever,
Edip
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Edip Cansever (pronounced ; August 8, 1928 – May 28, 1986) was a Turkish poet.. Turkish poet
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Emre,
Yunus
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Yunus Emre (1240–1321) was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present. Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Walad, one of the first known Turkish poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction remains very close to the popular speech of his contemporaries in Central and Western Anatolia. This is also the language of a number of anonymous folk-poets, folk-songs, fairy tales, riddles (tekerlemeler), and proverbs.. Turkish poet and Sufi mystic
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Ergülen,
Haydar
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Haydar Ergulen is one of the important poets of the recent generation in contemporary Turkish literature. Born in 1956 in Eskisehir, Türkeli, he graduated from the Sociology Department at Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi (Middle East Technical University) in Ankara.. Turkish poet
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Ghalib,
Mirza
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One of the best-known Urdu poets of all times, Mirza Ghalib is a name that is synonymous with Urdu poetry. Born Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, Ghalib was a pen name he adopted. It is like a pseudonym that most poets and writers adopt in the literary world. The life history of Ghalib is truly interesting and Ghalib biography indeed makes a good read. Ghalib was born in Agra, India in Turkish aristocratic ancestry on 27th December 1796.
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Kutlar,
Onat
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Mehmet Arif Onat Kutlar (January 25, 1936 – January 11, 1995), also known as Onat Kutlar, was a prominent Turkish writer and poet, founder of the Turkish Sinematek and one of the founders of the Istanbul International Film Festival.. prominent Turkish writer film producer/actor and poet
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Müldür,
Lale
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Lâle Müldür was born in 1956, in Aydin, Turkey. She is a Turkish poet and writer and is considered one of the most influential Turkish poets of the last several decades. Her eccentric style sets her apart from her peers.. Turkish poet and writer
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Süreya,
Cemal
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Cemal Süreyya (born 1931 in Tunceli; died 1990 in Istanbul) was a poet and writer.. Turkish poet and writer
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Tevfik,
Neyzen
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Neyzen Tevfik (March 24, 1879 – January 28, 1953) was a Turkish poet, satirist, and neyzen (a "ney performer" in Turkish). He was born in Bodrum on March 24, 1879, and died in Istanbul on January 28, 1953. His name is occasionally misspelled as Neyzen Teyfik.. Turkish poet satirist and neyzen
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the Magnificent,
Suleiman
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Suleiman I ( /sl i 'mn/; Ottoman Turkish: Suleyman, Modern Turkish: Süleyman (Turkish pronunciation: ), almost always Kanuni Sultan Süleyman; 6 November 1494 – 5/6/7 September 1566) was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the East, as the Lawgiver (Turkish: Kanuni; Arabic:, al-Qanuni), for his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system. Suleiman became a prominent monarch of 16th century Europe, presiding over the apex of the Ottoman Empire's military, political and economic power. Suleiman personally led Ottoman armies to conquer the Christian strongholds of Belgrade, Rhodes, and most of Hungary before his conquests were checked at the Siege of Vienna in 1529. He annexed most of the Middle East in his conflict with the Safavids and large swathes of North Africa as far west as Algeria. Under his rule, the Ottoman fleet dominated the seas from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.. ruler of the Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
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Veli Kanik,
Orhan
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Orhan Veli Kanik or Orhan Veli (13 April 1914, Istanbul – 14 November 1950, Istanbul) was a Turkish poet. Kanik who is the founder of Garip Movement together with Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet has moved to the poetic language, utterance of man-in-the street by purposing rootedly to change the old structure in Turkish poetry. The poet made fit many works in the story, the essay, the article and the translation field, as well as his poetries into his 36 yearly life.. Turkish poet; a founder of the Garip Movement
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