List of Turkic-languages poets

This is a list of poets writing in Turkic languages.

11th 12th century

• Yusuf Has Hacip, poet, (1019–1085)
• Ahmet Yesevi, poet, mystic, (1093–1166)

13th 14th century

• Yunus Emre, poet, mystic and Dervish Sufi,(1240–1320)
• Köroğlu, a poet of the aşık/ozan tradition

15th 16th century

• Nasimi, (ca.1369–1417)
• Ali Şir Nevai, poet, (1441–1501)
• Pir Sultan Abdal, (ca.1480-1550)
• Ismail I - Khatai, (July 17, 1487 - May 23, 1524),
• Fuzûlî, poet, (1483–1556)

17th 18th 19th century

• Karacaoğlan, (ca.1606-ca.1680)
• Yusuf Nabi, (1642–1712)
• Magtymguly Pyragy, (1724–1807) Turkmen from Golestan, Iran; poet, songwriter, intellectual. His book is completely memorized by many Turkmens. They make pilgrimages to his grave. He is also widely respected among many Turks and some Azeris as he was an Oğuz turk.^[1]
• Ahmet Nedîm Efendi, (1681?-1730)
• Dadaloğlu, (ca.1785–ca.1868)

20th century

• Ismail Gasprinski, Crimean Tatar poet, publisher, intellectual (1851–1914)
• Neyzen Tevfik, poet (1879–1953)
• Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, poet (1884–1958)
• Noman Çelebicihan, Crimean Tatar leader and poet (1885–1918)
• Bekir Çoban-zade, Crimean Tatar poet and professor of Turkic languages (1893–1937)
• Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, poet (1898–1973)
• Nazim Hikmet Ran, poet (1901–1963)
• Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar,poet, novelist, essayist (1901–1962)
• Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, poet, dramatist (1901–1967)
• Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, poet, essayist (1905–1983)
• Ahmet Muhip Dıranas, poet (1909–1980)
• Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, poet (1910–1956)
• Rıfat Ilgaz, poet, writer, journalist (1911–1993)
• Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, painter and poet (1913–1975)
• Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, poet (1914–1988)
• Orhan Veli Kanik, poet (1914–1950)
• Melih Cevdet Anday, poet (1915- )
• Behçet Necatigil,poet, dramatist (1916–1979)
• Ilhan Berk, poet (1918- )
• Necati Cumalı, poet, dramatist (1921- )
• Bahtiyar Vahapzade, poet (1925- )
• Can Yücel, poet (1926–1999)
• Edip Cansever, poet (1928- )
• Ece Ayhan Çağlar, poet (1931–2002)
• Talat Sait Halman, poet (1931- )
• Cemal Süreya, poet (1931–1990)
• Onat Kutlar, writer, poet (1936–1995)
• Attila Ilhan, writer, poet, captain (1925–2005)
• Sabit İnce, writer, poet (1954)

21st century

• Ismet Özel, poet (1944– )
• Haydar Ergülen, poet (1956- )
• Sunay Akın, poet, writer (1962-)
• Süreyya Aylin Antmen, (1981- )

See also

• List of contemporary Turkish poets
• List of Ottoman poets
• Turkish literature

References