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

• Şeyyad Hamza, poet, mystic, author of Yusuf ve Zeliha (13th 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),
• Fuzuli, poet, (1483 – 1556)

17th 18th 19th century

• Karacaoğlan, (ca.1606-ca.1680)
• Yusuf Nabi, (1642-1712)
• 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)
• Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar, poet and novelist (1888-1963)
• Orhan Seyfi Orhon, poet (1890-1972)
• Enis Behiç Koryürek, poet (1891-1949)
• Halit Fahri Ozansoy, poet (1891-1971)
• Bekir Çoban-zade, Crimean Tatar poet and professor of Turkic languages (1893-1937)
• Yusuf Ziya Ortaç, poet (1896-1967)
• 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)
• Muammer Lütfi Bakşi, poet (1903-1947)
• Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, poet, essayist (1905-1983)
• M. H. Şehriyar, poet (1905-1988)
• Vasfi Mahir Kocayürek, poet (1907-1961)
• Cevdet Kudret, poet (1907-1991)
• Sabri Esat Siyavuşgil, poet (1907-1968)
• Yaşar Nabi Nayır, poet and journalist (1908-1981)
• Ahmet Muhip Dıranas, poet (1909-1980)
• Ziya Osman Saba, poet (1910-1957)
• 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)
• Faik Baysal, poet (1918-2002)
• Ilhan Berk, poet (1918- )
• Salah Birsel, poet (1919-1999)
• Rüştü Onur, poet (1920-1942)
• Necati Cumalı, poet, dramatist (1921- )
• Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu, poet (1922-1946)
• Özdemir Asaf, poet (1923-1981)
• N. Abbas Sayar, poet and novelist (1923-1999)
• Sabri Altınel, poet(1925-1985)
• Bahtiyar Vahapzade, poet (1925- )
• Can Yücel, poet (1926-1999)
• Turgut Uyar, poet (1927-1985)
• 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

• Ülkü Tamer, poet (1937– )
• Güven Turan, poet (1943– )
• Ismet Özel, poet (1944– )
• Haydar Ergülen, poet (1956- )
• Sunay Akın, poet, writer (1962-)
• Cem Uzungüneş, poet (1962- )
• Alaaddin Külcüoğlu, poet (1967- )
• Mehmet Erte, poet (1978- )
• İbrahim Halil Baran, (1981- )
• Süreyya Aylin Antmen, (1981- )

See also

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