List of contemporary Turkish poets

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)