Poet (b.
?, Edirne - d. 1554). His real name was Mehmed. He joined the Janissary Corps and took part
in campaigns in Iran (1514) and Egypt (1517) with Yavuz Sultan Selim. He was a
law clerk during Sultan Süleyman’s
reign. He
was supported by the Nakşibendi* sheikh, Filibeli Mahmut Efendi who was also
known as Baba Efendi and by one of the followers of Şeyh Rüstem Paşa.
The poems of his Divan* of
46-48 couplets were not skillfully written but are important because they were
written without using Arabic or Persian words and noun phrases. He also
compiled a collection of parodies written in this period called Mecmau’n Nezair (Collection of Parodies)
consisting of 3356 poems. Some say that his poems written in simple Turkish are
the first examples of “National Literature”. The Turkish poems in his Divan*
were published by Prof. Fuad Köprülü in 1928. Nihal Atsız made a study on the
same work (1934).