List of contemporary Turkish poets

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This list includes the notable Turkish poets.

• Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884–1958)
• Ahmet Haşim (1885–1933)
• Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel (1898–1973)
• Nazım Hikmet (1902–1963)
• Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983)
• Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız (1905–1975)
• Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906–1954)
• Asaf Hâlet Çelebi (1907–1958)
• Ahmet Muhip Dıranas (1908–1980)
• Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (1910–1956)
• Rıfat Ilgaz (1911–1993)
• Orhan Veli Kanık (1914–1950)
• Oktay Rifat Horozcu (1914–1988)
• Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1915–2008)
• Baki Süha Ediboğlu (1915–1972)
• Melih Cevdet Anday (1915–2002)
• Behçet Necatigil (1916–1979)
• Cahit Külebi (1917–1997)
• İlhan Berk (1918–2008)
• Özdemir Asaf (1923–1981)
• Attila İlhan (1925–2005)
• Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan (1926–1984)
• Asım Bezirci (1927–1993)
• Ahmet Arif, (1927–1991)
• Edip Cansever (1928–1986)
• Ece Ayhan (1931–2002)
• Cemal Süreya (1931–1990)
• Sezai Karakoç (born 1933)
• Gülten Akın (1933–2015)
• Onat Kutlar (1936–1995)
• Cahit Zarifoğlu (1940–1987)
• İsmet Özel (born 1944)
• Ahmet Emin Atasoy (born 1944)
• Ali F. Bilir (born 1945)
• Behçet Aysan (1949–1993)
• Enis Batur (born 1952)
• Lale Müldür (born 1956)
• Haydar Ergülen (born 1956)
• Seyhan Erözçelik (1962–2011)
• Ahmet Yalçınkaya (born 1963)
• Birhan Keskin (born 1963)
• Seyhan Kurt (born 1971)
• Kenan Yücel (born 1974)
• Nurduran Duman (born 1974)
• İbrahim Halil Baran (born 1981)
• Süreyya Aylin Antmen (born 1981)

• List of Ottoman poets