Nevşehirli Âşik Ahmet’in Yaşami Ve Şiiri Üzerine
On Life and Art of Nevşehirli Âşik Ahmet

Summary/Abstract: Ahmet from Nevşehir is one of our minstrels who is not playing saz but composing his poeAhmet from Nevşehir is one of our minstrels who is not playing saz but composing his poems melodiously. He was born at 1950 and known by his poems which have been published in local newspapers. He is also known with his amateur tape recordings which were delivered to acquaintances. Additionally, we have 2 video tapes from 1990 and 4 manuscripts which consist of his poems from 1960 to present. In these manuscripts there are 384 poems of his own. Minstrel Ahmet was grown up in a family in which everybody sings folk songs. Especially in his first poems, he got inspired from folktales like Ferhat ile Şirin, Kerem ile Aslı, Tahir ile Zühre which he first listened from his grandfather and minstrels like Âşık Garip, Âşık Kerem, Karac’oğlan and Muharrem Ertaş. Some of the themes he handles mostly in his poems are love, poverty, social satire, homesickness and individual cases. Love, which is the basis of minstrel literature (âşık edebiyatı) is in the minstrel Ahmet’s poems also the dominant theme from the first poems which express the naive feelings of a child to the last poems which turn to express the belatedness and timelessness. In the poems of social satire, actual themes like the rudeness of humanity and unjustness between people, the punishment of innosence, venality, fraud, madness of consumption and extravagance, exploitation, inequality, injustice and terrorism are coming into prominence. We can observe not only his real life but also his neighborhood’sand sometimes from another voice. Most of his poems set up with koşma style which has 8 and 11 syllabicmeter.

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