This is a list of poets writing in Turkic languages.
11th–12th century Mahmud al-Kashgari, poet (1005–1102) Yusuf Balasaguni, poet (1019–1085) Ahmad Yasawi, poet, mystic (1093–1166) Arslan Baba, poet, mystic
13th–14th century Mahmud Qırımlı, first attested Crimean Tatar poet (c. 1200) Yunus Emre, poet, mystic and Dervish Sufi (1240–1320) Izzeddin "Hasanoglu" Esfaryani, poet, (13th - 14th centuries) Köroğlu, a poet of the ashik tradition Kaygusuz Abdal, Alevi folk poet, (1341–1444) Kadi Burhan al-Din, (1345–1398) Imadaddin Nasimi, (1369–1417)
15th–16th century Ali-Shir Nava'i, poet (1441–1501) Pir Sultan Abdal (1480–1550) Khatai, (1487–1524) Gül Baba, (d. 1541) Muhibbi, (1494–1566) Fuzûlî, poet (1483–1556) Babur, poet and leader (1483–1530) Bâkî, poet (1526–1600)
17th–18th–19th century Karacaoğlan (c. 1606-c. 1680) Ashik Umer (1621–1707), Crimean Tatar poet-ashik Yusuf Nabi (1642–1712) Magtymguly Pyragy (1724–1807), Turkmen poet, songwriter and intellectual Kul Nesîmî (17th century), Alevi-Bektashi poet Nedîm (c. 1681–1730) Bukhar-zhirau Kalmakanov, poet (1693–1789) Molla Vali Vidadi, ashik (1709–1809) Salawat Yulayev (1754–1800), Bashkir poet Erzurumlu Emrah, poet (1775–1854) Dadaloğlu, (c. 1785–c. 1868) Ashig Alasgar, ashik (1821–1926) Miftahetdin Akmulla (1831-1895), Bashkir, Kazakh and Tatar poet Abay Qunanbayuli, (1845–1904), poet, composer and philosopher Abdulkadir Inan (1889-1976) Zeki Velidi Togan (1890-1970), poet, historian and turkologist
20th century Ismail Gasprinsky, Crimean Tatar poet, publisher, intellectual (1851–1914) Mirjaqip Dulatuli (1885–1935) - poet, writer and a leader of Alash Orda government Akhmet Baytursinuli (1873–1937) - poet, writer, pedagogue and politician Neyzen Tevfik, poet (1879–1953) Magzhan Zhumabayev, poet (1893– 1938) Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, poet (1884–1958) Noman Çelebicihan, Crimean Tatar leader and poet (1885–1918) Bekir Choban-zade, Crimean Tatar poet and professor of Turkic languages (1893–1937) Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, poet (1898–1973) Nâzım Hikmet, poet (1901–1963) Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, poet, novelist, essayist (1901–1962) Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, poet, dramatist (1901–1967) Nihal Atsız, poet, writer and nationalist ideologue (1905–1975) Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, poet, essayist (1905–1983) Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, poet (1906–1988) 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 Kanık, poet (1914–1950) Melih Cevdet Anday, poet (1915–2002) Alykul Osmonov, poet (1915–1950) Âşık Veysel, ashik, poet (1894–1973) Behçet Necatigil, poet, dramatist (1916–1979) İlhan Berk, poet (1918–2008) Necati Cumalı, poet, dramatist (1921–2001) Abdurehim Ötkür, poet (1923–1995) Attilâ İlhan, writer, poet, captain (1925–2005) Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, poet (1925–2009) Can Yücel, poet (1926–1999) Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan, poet, author (1926–1984) Edip Cansever, poet (1928–1986) Ece Ayhan Çağlar, poet (1931–2002) Talât Sait Halman, poet (1931–2014) Cemal Süreya, poet (1931–1990) Onat Kutlar, writer, poet (1936–1995) Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, ashik, poet (1939–2002)
21st century
Sabit İnce, writer, poet (1954) İsmet Özel, poet (1944–) Haydar Ergülen, poet (1956–) Sunay Akın, poet, writer (1962–) Abdurehim Heyit, poet, singer (1962–) Süreyya Aylin Antmen (1981–)
See also List of contemporary Turkish poets List of Ottoman poets Turkish literature
References
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