Prof. Dr. (Fahri) Yahya Azeroğlu

Prof. Dr. (Fahri) Yahya Azeroğlu Poetry and Biography

(ELEŞTİRİN BENİ 

 ÖVMEYİN BENİ!!)

CRITICIZE ME

DON’T PRAISE ME!!!!

My dear friends, I have a piece of advice for you

Criticize me, don’t praise me

I have a great purpose like the land of Turan

Criticize me, don’t praise me

To meet in your garden of heart

To wander freely

To reach the right ideas

Criticize me, don’t praise me

Praises are a storm in my life

True criticism gives me strength

Arrange your heart’s words side by side

Criticize me, don’t praise me

My tent and house are open to friends

My chest is full of your love

Believe me, I will not be offended and hurt anyone

Criticize me, don’t praise me

Criticism is the real praise

Let the chimney of good intentions smoke

This is Azeroğlu’s request from you

Criticize me, don’t praise me

YAŞIYORUM 

(1)AM LIVING 

 I’ve gotten older, I’ve reached my limit 

 I live with trouble and sorrow

 The page of my life notebook is over 

 Unfortunately, I am writing in the void.

 Life finally ate me too

 A thousand troubles piled on top of a thousand troubles 

 Now the world I’m speeding around 

 I’m wandering around slowly 

 I’ve grown old, my heart has never matured 

 He was never loyal to his owner 

 The wheel is broken and there are no gears left. 

 I also get angry at the buzzing 

 Our youth walked very rudely 

 The dark cloud covered the stars 

 My big body melted and melted 

 I’m leaking where I sit 

 Familiar time to risk

 We tied our faith to worship 

 Now the cure is gone in your knees 

 I draw figure eight while walking 

 For a moment, the curtain was drawn over my eyes 

 Moreover, the ears do not hear

 There’s nothing left to do I guess

 I am suffering from pain and ache

 Words don’t stay in my memory 

 Empty eyes cannot see the wound 

 The tongue has grown and does not turn on my palate 

 As the world speaks, I remain silent 

 The handcuffs of oppression remain on my arm 

 All I have left is my property and my sackcloth. 

 Azeroğlu is on his last journey 

 I’m running fast

 ÖĞRETMEN!!!

TEACHER!!!!

This world is on its way

Nur is written in your minds

On the branches of the saplings we plant

You are not a shell, you are the real essence, teacher

If you take ownership of everything national

I always admire that upright stance

On the white page of my national history

You are the word written in gold, teacher

The owner of intelligence and foresight

You are the winner of every race

Like Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK

You are the eye that sees the future, teacher

I wrote life to read

To weave like lace

To warm up in the furnace of knowledge

You are the ember that ignites and burns, teacher

Azeroğlu, even if your rose fades in the vineyard

Even if you have a thousand troubles in your heart

Even if your salaries are just an ear to the camel

You are the face that smiles at life, teacher.

(BU DÜNYA’DA BİR ER GİBİ YAŞADIM!!!)

I LIVED LIKE A SOLDIER IN THIS WORLD!!!

Sometimes I went down hills, sometimes I went up hills,

I moved and moved throughout my life,

First of all I was happy about this,

My name was not mentioned with cheating and scrap,

I lived like a soldier in this world.

While praising right with equity,

While beating injustice with justice,

While I loved my country without expecting anything in return,

My name was not mentioned with cheating and scrap,

I lived like a soldier in this world.

I became rich but I did not fly into the air,

I became poor but I did not raise my hand to the scoundrel,

I did not turn and run away from the path I knew was right,

My name was not mentioned with cheating and scrap,

I lived like a soldier in this world.

I was shaken with the ecstasy of honesty.

I fought against cruelty with enthusiasm,

My life passed with black and white colors,

My name was not mentioned with cheating and scrap,

I lived like a soldier in this world.

 Azeroğlu, I have helped my homeland,

I have always refused to run away in fights,

I have created my heart for friends,

My name was not mentioned with the trickery of scrap,

I lived like a man in this world.

Yahya Azeroğlu/Turkey

POET AND WRITER YAHYA AZEROĞLU’S CV

Poet and writer Yahya Azeroğlu was born on 24/10/1955/ in Yukarı Topraklı village of Aralık district (between the foot of Ağrı Mountain and Aras River) of Iğdır province, which is the border bey of eastern Anatolia, as the second child of a large family of 11 people, and completed his primary and secondary education in Iğdır. Later, Yahya Azeroğlu, who settled in Turgutlu district of Manisa with his family in 1970, dropped out of high school and went to Istanbul to enroll in Istanbul Kabataş High School. When he could not enroll there either, he stayed in Istanbul for a long time. In time, he joined the Turkish Literature Foundation chaired by the writer Ahmet Kabaklı. He worked at the Ülker biscuit factory there and also went to the Turkish Literature Foundation. Yahya Azeroğlu, who received education in literature by attending conferences given by valuable scientists such as Osman Yüksel Serdengeçti, Niyazi Yıldırım Gençosmanoğlu, Ahmet Kabaklı, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Prof. Dr. Ayhan Songar, Mehmet Akif İnan, Camil Meriç, Erol Güngör, İbrahim Kafesoğlu, Osman Turan, Ahmet Arvasi etc., who are the literary figures of Turkey, later went to Germany. Here he received foreign language education for 2 years (German). He resided in various European countries and was active by participating in cultural and artistic activities especially within the framework of Azerbaijani cultural associations, and returned to Turkey in 1983. He settled in Iğdır, the frontier lord of Eastern Anatolia, the land of his father, and first completed the high school he left unfinished and continued his cultural activities throughout Turkey. While continuing to write poems and articles, Yahya Azeroğlu won the Public Administration Department of the Open Education Faculty of Eskişehir Anadolu University, but could not finish the faculty due to various reasons. Later, in 1994, he founded the Iğdır Poets and Writers Association and served as its President for 15 years. (İLESAM) Yahya Azeroğlu, who is a member of the Turkish Scientific and Literary Works Professional Association and a provincial representative, wrote “ÇIRPINIŞ”

“SILENT SCREAMS” “Take an Example from ATATURK” “UNDER THE RED FLAG” “ALKIZIL, THE VILLAGE THAT BECAME AN EPIC IN THE ARAS VALLEY” “TURANIAN DAYS IN IRAN” “PROFESSOR HASAN ÇAKMAK IN TURKISH LITERATURE” He has published 12 books. He has been invited to many conferences held in Europe. His poems have won first prizes in many poetry competitions he has participated in. His poems have been set to music and put to music by composers such as Azerbaijani composer Hüseyin Sözel, I. Ceylan Veysel Yalvaç, etc., and have been the subject of news in the famous BILD newspaper published in Germany due to these and similar achievements. Poet-researcher Writer Yahya Azeroğlu was deemed worthy of the poet of the year award in Antalya in 2020. He was deemed worthy of the literature award of the year in Tabriz in 2021, In addition, Azerbaijani scientist Prof. Dr. Ramiz Hesemli wrote a book about poet and writer Yahya Azeroğlu called “Turan Yolcusu”, the second book written about Yahya Azeroğlu was published by poet-writer Banu Musayeva called “Turan Türkün Dünyaki sesdir”, later the third book was written by Azerbaijani poet-writer Sara Şerifov, thus the book written about Yahya Azeroğlu was made into a documentary about his life and art in 2017 by students of Akdeniz University. The life, art and poems of poet and writer Yahya Azeroğlu were given to his student Necati Bayat as a graduation thesis by Celâl Bayar University faculty member Assoc. Prof. Dr. İrfan Murat Yıldırım, thus Yahya Azeroğlu’s life and works entered the archives of the university, which is a center of science. The articles he wrote must have attracted the attention of Istanbul University faculty member Professor Doctor Oktay Belli, because he invited researcher poet-writer Yahya Azeroğlu to symposiums he organized in many parts of Turkey within this framework, more than thirty The scientific articles he wrote on were published after passing the referee board, and also his articles were published in the famous “Wordsmith International Editorial” magazine published in America and became the cover story of the 15th issue of the same magazine. Yahya Azeroğlu’s articles and poems were published in famous international magazines and translated into many languages including English, Persian, Arabic, Greek, Romanian, Russian and Uzbek. He was also deemed worthy of the peace award three times by the World Peace Platform operating in America due to his contribution to world peace with his peace poems and articles. Yahya Azeroğlu’s articles and poems were also featured in the Azerbaijani press. Yahya Azeroğlu, who was published in magazines such as the famous Yurt Literature Magazine and Elay Literature Magazine, thus became known in literary circles in many countries of the world, including the entire Turkic world. He was awarded a scholarship by the Azerbaijan Science and Education Center on Philology (F) Prof. diploma was given, Yahya Azeroğlu, who is a member of the Azerbaijan Writers’ Union, Uzbekistan Writers’ Union, Tabriz Writers’ Union, Kirkuk Writers’ Union and Turkey Writers’ Union, is also the general chairman of the Turkish World Art and Culture Center (TÜSKÜM) in Antalya, which he founded. Yahya Azeroğlu, who married his aunt’s daughter, Birsen Hanım, has 4 children (2 girls, 2 boys,) Ülkü, Tuna, Edibe Hilal, Bakü Can Kürşad. Yahya Azeroğlu currently resides in Antalya.

Prof. Dr. (Fahri) Yahya Azeroğlu Turkey