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Studies conducted within the ecocritical paradigm that emerged towards the end of the 1900s have shown that nature does not exist apart from human beings and that the two are inextricably linked. The insights gained from this research pave the way for the growth of ecocriticism by focusing on the interaction between human and nature. Deep ecology, considered one of the most important ecological approaches, has also contributed to ecocriticism with its perspective and proposals for the establishment of an eco-centerd ecological consciousness. Âşık Veysel, one of the great folk minstrels of Turkish literature, also takes an ecological stance in his relationship with nature in his poetry. The blind poet enables the reader to see nature through the eyes of the soul by reflecting nature in his poems, taking it beyond ordinary descriptions, attributing sacredness to nature, and moving human’s relationship with nature beyond the relationship of selfinterest and responsibility. It is obvious that mysticism and Alevism’s teachings, which embrace all living things and attribute to them a sacredness by virtue of the Creator, had an influence on the minstrel. Veysel produced works that could provide the groundwork for the deep ecology movement before it even existed. In this context, similarities between deep ecology and the ecological position in his poems have been identified. For this reason, the aim of this study, which is carried out using hermeneutic method, is to examine Âşık Veysel’s specific poems from the perspective of deep ecology. From the works reviewed, it is clear that Veysel did not write poetry with ecological concerns, but his attitudes and viewpoints regarding nature are worth examining in terms of deep ecology.