The Poetry Skill and the Turkish Poems of Abdurrahman Kamil (Yetkin) Efendi From Amasya

Abdurrahman Kamil Efendi was born in Amasya in 1850 and died in the same city in 1941. His grandfather is Mustafa Mecd？ Efendi and his father is Ahmet Rifat Efendi. After the invasion of Crimea by the Russians, his family moved to Mecit？zü, a town of Amasya and they settled there. The family was known as Mecd？zade related to the name of Mustafa Mecd？ Efendi. Abdurrahman Kamil Efendi got a good religious education from the early ages of his childhood and he had adequate Arabic and Persian language skills to write poems. He had been a mufti and religious department sheik at Amasya Sultan Bayez？d Mosque. He overtook a great responsibility during the national struggle of the Turkish People and played a key role during that period. He invited the local people to support the movement of independence. Up to today, there have been a lot of researches carried on his books which are about his role in the national struggle period. However, there has no research done about his poems and poetry skills. Furthermore, he is, also, a poet and wrote some poems in Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages with the nickname Kamil. In this article, his Turkish poems that he wrote with the nickname Kamil were determined and his poetry skill was discussed. As a result of this research we were determined 14 Turkish poems of him which includes 4 masnavi, 2 odes (kasida), a müsemmen and 6 ghazals. Kamil Efendi has adopted the elements of comparison and the groups of words from the tradition of divan. The main theme of his poems on religion and mysticism is divine love. In this article, the poems of Abdurrahman Kamil Efendi with the nickname Kamil were identified and presented the transcriptions of them; and gave information about him based on his poem