
Feridun Ahmed Pasha Tomb, built in 1583 in the Eyüpsultan district of İstanbul, is a square-plan, single-dome funerary structure erected in honor of Feridun Ahmed Pasha, a 16th-century Ottoman bureaucrat, chancellor, poet, and writer.【1】 The Life and Literary Identity of Feridun Ahmed Pasha Feridun Ahmed Pasha was educated in the imperial court during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent under the tutelage of Çivizade Abdullah Çelebi, the Grand Treasurer, and rose through the bureaucratic ranks
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Gözde Cabadak

Human beings occupy in the universe a space equal to the volume of their own emptiness. But some spirits fill that emptiness with such a sharp, unyielding seepage that even the silence left behind becomes a roaring river. Nilgün Marmara was one of those delicate and unyielding voices who treated this planet as a two-step lodging and watched its backyards early on, choosing departure as an act of will to preserve her own truth. Her poetry is a spiritual journey that wanders at the limits of endur
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Nursena Şahin

The Story of Emrah and Selvihan is a folk tale from Turkish folk literature that belongs to the tradition of courtship, combining both prose and poetry. The tale is associated with Emrah of Erciş and is among the widely told love-themed folk stories across Anatolia. Emrah of Erciş Emrah of Erciş is a folk poet traditionally believed to have lived in the 17th century and associated with the Erciş district of Van. He is recognized as an âşık who was trained in the âşıklık tradition, playing the sa
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One of the most captivating paradoxes in literary history lies in the story of a woman who never wrote a single line of poetry herself, yet inspired the most powerful and monumental three poets of Turkish verse to compose their most beautiful, most tender verses. This mysterious and profoundly deep woman is none other than Tomris Uyar. Her presence transformed the poets’ souls into emotional dead ends, passionate entanglements, and the inexplicable tides of relationships. To understand how one w
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Nursena Şahin