Aşıq Ümer

Ashik Umer (Crimean Tatar: Aşıq Ümer; 1621, Kezlev — 1707, Kezlev) was a Crimean Tatar medieval poet-ashik, one of the most famous representatives of the Turkic-speaking ashik poetry in general. Ashik poetry (Crimean Tatar: aşıq — the person in love) is a special kind of literary oeuvre, the representatives of which — folk poets-singers — accompany their performances with playing the string-plucked musical instrument bağlama. Hence another name for this poetry — "bağlama poetry".

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Statue of Ashik Umer in Yevpatoria (former Kezlev — his birth-place)
Born	1621 Kezlev, Crimean Khanate
Died	1707 Kezlev, Crimean Khanate
Pen name	Aşıq Ümer, Ümer Kezlevli
Nationality	Crimean Tatar
Citizenship	Crimean Khanate
Genre	ashik poetry, bağlama poetry, ghazal, rubaʿi
Subject	mystical content, soldier's theme

He wrote mainly lyric poems (on mystical content and related to a soldier's theme) in the forms of Turkic folk poetry. Ashik Umer is also an author of the poems that are traditional for classical oriental poetry — ghazals, rubaʿi etcetera. He greatly influenced the later poets-improvisers (ashiks).[1][2]