Ahmet Yakut
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Ahmet Yakut was a Turkish
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 poet and Sufi
Sufism
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 mystic
Mysticism
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 who lived in a village near Diyarbakır
Diyarbakır
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 in the 20th century. He exercised an immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present.
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