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- Middle Period: the rise of Persian and Turkish poetry
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As for the literary developments in Turkey about 1300, the mystical singer Yunus Emre is the first and most important in a long line of popular poets. Little is known about his life, which he probably spent not far from the Sakarya River of Asia Minor. Before him, in Central Asia, the religious leader Ahmed Yesevi (died 1166) had written some rather dry verses on wisdom in Turkish. Yunus, in Anatolia, however, was the first known poet to have caught something of Rūmī’s fervour and translated it into a provincial setting, creating “a Turkish vernacular poetry that was to be ...(100 of 63390 words)