A Poet from Erzurum: ？eyh Ziyaeddin Ta？kesen？ and His Classical Style Poetry

Divan poetry spread considerably among the writing experts, especially in all the regions of the Ottoman geography in the 19th century; contrary to the definition of palace literature, it affected a significant part of the educated section of the society such as civil servants, members of the army, madrasa and religious order experts. The fact that the number of poets in this century in the tezkires and in the sources of literary is more than ever; history shows that this strong tradition entered into the last century with a great accumulation. In particular, religious orders continued to exist as one of the centers of literary activities besides their religious and mystical missions. At the same time, widespread religious orders such as Halvetism and Naqshbandi sustained the tradition of divan poetry even in the farthest regions of Anatolia, and became an institution where the poets trained. In this study, the life of ？eyh Ziyaeddin Ta？kesen？, who became famous with his mystic identity in Erzurum and its surroundings in the 19th century, was discussed; his poems of the classical style detected in a magazine were studied in detail in terms of form, content, language and style by transferring them to Latin letters. Thus, the literary personality and poems of Ziyaeddin Ta？kesen？, who had a sufistic personality and committed his gazels to paper completely in the frame of classical poetry tradition, will also be introduced to the world of literature