Turkish literature

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genre of literature

epic poem and legend of Turkic peoples

11th century work written by Yūsuf Balasaguni

thumb|Cover of Seyahatname by Evliya Çelebi, 1895 edition

philosopher and poet of Persian origin, son of Jalal al-Din Rumi

Balaibalan () is the oldest known constructed language.

Tezkire (), from Arabic tadhkirah meaning "something that causes one to remember" or "memorandum", is a form of bibliographical dictionary or bibliographical compendium which flourished in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire. The most widely known are the tezkires of poets, but the books also focused on the works of government officials and artists in general. First seen in early Arab literature before the 10th century, they then made their way into Persian literature and later Ottoman literature.

Sefāret-nāme (سفارت نامه), literally the book of embassy, was a genre in the Turkish literature which was closely related to seyahatname (the book of travels), but was specific to the recounting of journeys and experiences of an Ottoman ambassador in a foreign, usually European, land and capital. Sefâretnâme were edited by their authors with a view to their presentation to the Sultan, and to his high administration, thus also bearing a semi-official character, their objective being to make them "feel" the foreign country in question, as much as informing on it. For this reason, and for the lit

REDIRECT Epic of Koroghlu#Koroghlu

book by Ḥājjī Khalīfah

Mythical Turkish warrior

only Alexander legend in Chagatai Turkish