Turkish literature
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary genre
- Subclass of
- literature
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- Commons category
- Literature of Turkey
- topic's main category
- Category:Turkish literature
- facet of
- culture of Turkey
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- language of work or name
- Turkish
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Turkish literature (Turkish: Türk edebiyatı, Türk yazını) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Turkish language. The Ottoman form of Turkish, which forms the basis of much of the written corpus, was highly influenced by Persian and Arabic literature, and used the Ottoman Turkish alphabet.
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