Language and literature

Divan (Collected Poems)

Yunus Emre Mosque in Karaman — Dosseman / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Author: Yunus Emre
Language: türkcə

The poems of Yunus Emre, who lived in the 13th–14th centuries — the first great poetry in Anatolian Turkish. In plain folk language they celebrate love for people and for God; his line "we love the created for the sake of the Creator" is still widely quoted.

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