Yunus Emre Memorial, Karaman, Turkey Yunus Emre (Turkish pronunciation: [juˈnus emˈɾe]) (1240?–1320?) was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present. Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Walad, one of the first known poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction...
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Yunus Emre Memorial, Karaman, Turkey Yunus Emre (Turkish pronunciation: [juˈnus emˈɾe]) (1240?–1320?) was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present. Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Walad, one of the first known poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction...