# List of Turkic-languages poets

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)
* Pir Sultan Abdal, (1480–1550)

## 15th–16th century

* Nasimi, (1369–1417)
* Ali Şir Nevai, poet (1441–1501)
* Pir Sultan Abdal (1480–1550)
* Khatai, (1487–1524)
* Gül Baba, (d. 1541)
* Muhibbi, (1494–1566)
* Fuzûlî, poet (1483–1556)
* Babur, poet (1483–1530)

## 17th–18th–19th century

* Karacaoğlan (c. 1606-c. 1680)
* Aşıq Ümer (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
* Ahmet Nedîm Efendi (c. 1681–1730)
* Bukhar-zhirau Kalmakanov, poet (1693–1789)
* Salauat Yulay-ulı (1754–1800), Bashkir poet
* Erzurumlu Emrah, poet (1775–1854)
* Dadaloğlu, (c. 1785–c. 1868)
* Aqmulla (1831-1895), Bashkir, Kazakh and Tatar poet
* Abay Qunanbayuli, (1845–1904), poet, composer and philosopher
* Əbdelqadir İnan (1889-1976)
* Əxmətzəki Əxmətşah ulı Wəlidi (1890-1970), poet, historian and turkologist

## 20th century

* Ismail Gasprinski, 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 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)
* 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 Kanik, 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)
* Ilhan Berk, poet (1918–2008)
* Necati Cumalı, poet, dramatist (1921–2001)
* Bahtiyar Vahapzade, 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)
* Talat Sait Halman, poet (1931–2014)
* Cemal Süreya, poet (1931–1990)
* Onat Kutlar, writer, poet (1936–1995)
* Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, ashik, poet (1939–2002)
* Attila Ilhan, writer, poet, captain (1925–2005)

## 21st century

* Abdurehim Ötkür, poet (1923–1995)
* Sabit İnce, writer, poet (1954)
* Ismet Özel, poet (1944–)
* Haydar Ergülen, poet (1956–)
* Sunay Akın, poet, writer (1962–)
* Abdurehim Heyt, poet, singer (1962–)
* Süreyya Aylin Antmen (1981–)