Abstract:

Seyyid Mehemmed Hüseyin Behcet Tebrizi who is the most important poet in 20th century and used Şehriyâr as his pseudonym was born in 1904-1905 in Tebriz. He has spent his childhood in his father’s village “Hosnigab Village” where foothills of Heyder Baba Mountain between 1905 and 1911. Altough he went to Tahran and signed up for medical school when he fell in love with a girl named Süreyya he was banished to Nişabur. Şehriyâr had spiritual crisis in the early 1940 and, these lasted for five years. In these years his mother visited him and they talked about past. He imagined his childhood memories and, solved the problems with his mothers effort, interest and compassion. Şehriyâr was writing poems in Persian. When his mother wanted him to write poems in Turkish he started to write in Turkish as well. After his mothers death he returned to Tebriz and wrote his well-known poem “Heyder Baba’ya Selam” in Tebriz Turkish. Hundreds of nazires was written to Şehriyar growing reputation over time. It’s possible to divide the nazires in five group. These are the nazires was written in Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iraq and Gagavuz. In this article 26 poems which belonged to 18 Turkmen poets and identified in nazires written in Iraq will be examined.

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