This is a list of poets writing in Turkic languages.
11th 12th century
- Yusuf Has Hacip, poet, (1019â€"1085)
- Ahmet Yesevi, poet, mystic, (1093â€"1166)
13th 14th century
- Yunus Emre, poet, mystic and Dervish Sufi,(1240â€"1320)
- Köroğlu, a poet of the aşık/ozan tradition
15th 16th century
- Nasimi, (ca.1369â€"1417)
- Ali Åžir Nevai, poet, (1441â€"1501)
- Pir Sultan Abdal, (ca.1480-1550)
- Ismail I - Khatai, (July 17, 1487 - May 23, 1524),
- Fuzûlî, poet, (1483â€"1556)
17th 18th 19th century
- KaracaoÄŸlan, (ca.1606-ca.1680)
- Yusuf Nabi, (1642â€"1712)
- Ahmet Nedîm Efendi, (1681?-1730)
- DadaloÄŸlu, (ca.1785â€"ca.1868)
20th century
- Ismail Gasprinski, Crimean Tatar poet, publisher, intellectual (1851â€"1914)
- Neyzen Tevfik, poet (1879â€"1953)
- Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, poet (1884â€"1958)
- Noman Çelebicihan, Crimean Tatar leader and poet (1885â€"1918)
- Bekir Çoban-zade, Crimean Tatar poet and professor of Turkic languages (1893â€"1937)
- Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, poet (1898â€"1973)
- Nazim Hikmet Ran, poet (1901â€"1963)
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar,poet, novelist, essayist (1901â€"1962)
- Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, poet, dramatist (1901â€"1967)
- Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, poet, essayist (1905â€"1983)
- Ahmet Muhip Dıranas, poet (1909â€"1980)
- Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, poet (1910â€"1956)
- Rıfat Ilgaz, poet, writer, journalist (1911â€"1993)
- Bedri Rahmi EyüboÄŸlu, painter and poet (1913â€"1975)
- Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, poet (1914â€"1988)
- Orhan Veli Kanik, poet (1914â€"1950)
- Melih Cevdet Anday, poet (1915- )
- Behçet Necatigil,poet, dramatist (1916â€"1979)
- Ilhan Berk, poet (1918- )
- Necati Cumalı, poet, dramatist (1921- )
- Bahtiyar Vahapzade, poet (1925- )
- Can Yücel, poet (1926â€"1999)
- Edip Cansever, poet (1928- )
- Ece Ayhan ÇaÄŸlar, poet (1931â€"2002)
- Talat Sait Halman, poet (1931- )
- Cemal Süreya, poet (1931â€"1990)
- Onat Kutlar, writer, poet (1936â€"1995)
- Attila Ilhan, writer, poet, captain (1925â€"2005)
- Sabit Ä°nce, writer, poet (1954)
21st century
- Ismet Özel, poet (1944â€" )
- Haydar Ergülen, poet (1956- )
- Sunay Akın, poet, writer (1962-)
- Süreyya Aylin Antmen, (1981- )
See also
- List of contemporary Turkish poets
- List of Ottoman poets
- Turkish literature