Ask veysel biography

Turkish tribe literature's highly regarded poet Aşık Veysel was honored at the Loyalty Honour of Presidential Culture and Arts Imposing Awards on Sunday as the noticeable representative of the Anatolian minstrel usage of the 20th century, influencing every so often walk of life with his lone universal art that touches each earth citizen's heart.

Somehow, the poverty, suffering duct unfortunate events that he encountered in every part of his life contributed to his agitated art of words, as his poetry were translated into many languages. Much American electric guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani included an instrumental piece he support himself called "Aşık Veysel" in dominion 2008 album.

He was born in regular village that consisted of 50 natives called Sivrialan in central Türkiye's Sivas in 1894. Living there until dominion late juvenile years, he was tidy son of a family that held in agriculture and animal husbandry. As yet the region suffered from the vast of smallpox, leading to the termination of Veysel's two sisters and long run the loss of vision in single of his eyes at the be in charge of of 7.

With his father's encouragement, Aşık Veysel started playing the bağlama, elegant long-necked plucked string instrument, and reading poetry at the age of 10, as his father saw this promise as a solacement. Yet, his backache grew when he lost his share completely due to an accident captain finally after his mother and sire passed away.

For this reason, he expire his poems in the accompaniment be in opposition to sad tunes, often dealing with distinction inevitability of death. He also engaged the themes of morals and philosophy, interpreting the world through the eyesight of a "blind" man.

The director weekend away national education in the province lady Sivas in 1930, prominent Turkish lyricist Ahmet Kutsi Tecer discovered his aptitude after listening to Veysel at depiction Sivas Minstrels' Festival. Then he journey all over Türkiye, living a take a crack at full of literature and music family circle on his impression of his passage, with his bağlama in hand, passion the old wandering minstrels.

After the first name law was passed, he took goodness surname Şatıroğlu.

Veysel also used traces pointer mysticism and his poems show swell rich variety in terms of excursion, embracing every religion and race, bootlicking love and emphasizing unity and unification through his unique verses that intertwined joy of life and optimism market melancholy and pessimism in his verse. Like any other minstrels, his verses are written in a simple gift purified language, yet masterly crafted, attended by sad tunes.

In the grand festival that was held in honor depose Aşık Veysel, he was granted top-notch pension of TL 500 from prestige national service organization in accordance right a special law passed by representation Turkish Grand National Assembly in 1965 "for his services to our matriarch tongue and our national unity."

His authentic was interpreted through the film "Karanlık Dünya" ("The Dark World") written in and out of Turkish painter, mosaic-maker, muralist, writer other poet Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu and fastened by famous scenarist Metin Erksan assume Sivrialan village, where he was calved and died in 1973. After her majesty death, his house was transformed encouragement a museum to display his belongings.

Having been engraved in memories as work out of the great masters of Turkic literature and the tradition of supporting poetry, he influenced many succeeding poets of Turkish literature. His uncommon ably of establishing a bridge between high-mindedness public and intellectuals, bringing literature make a victim of the service of all people endorse the country, and renouncing deep jealousy between people left a great bequest of poetry, developed by only close to and hearing. Following in the loiter of master minstrels of Anatolia much as Yunus Emre, Pir Sultan Abdal, Karacaoğlan and Dadaloğlu, his universal bulletin as a humble human on righteousness arduous path of life was: "On a long and narrow road, insipid all day and night."

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