Aşıq Ümer

Aşıq Ümer (1621 — 1707) was a Crimean Tatar medieval poet of ashik and is one of the most famous representatives of the Turkic-speaking ashik poetry in general. Ashik poetry (aşıq; lit. '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".

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