Özet:

Cities are the subject of Classical Turkish Literature with their features such as places to visit, geographical beauties, important people they raised, historical importance and products they grow. There are types of poetry such as shahrangizes and biladiyes, in which cities are introduced and praised. Also there are praises of the city in the divans. They are not as numerous as the city eulogies, but there are also city satires and city elegies. In addition, there are poems about cities that poets do not like for various reasons such as exile, an undesirable appointment, the difficulties of being abroad/ homesick. Gelibolulu Âlî and Sehî Bey in XVIth century, Azmizâde Hâletî and Diyarbakırlı Mâlî in XVIIth century, Enderunlu Fâzıl and Ahmed Vesîm XVIIIth century, Eşref Paşa, Trabzonlu Hazinedar-zâde Âgah Osman and Eşref in XIXth century; mention cities and towns such as Bitlis, Lahsa, Cairo, Korinthos, Mentese, Peloponnese, Nis, Sivrihisar, Damascus, Van, with which they have relations due to their official duties, in their poems in a negative language. Poets wrote their poems to stop an assignment to that city. In addition, poets wrote poems to express their dissatisfaction with the city they worked in. By examining the poems mentioned in the study, it is aimed to understand the reason for the complaints of the poets about these cities.

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