Yusuf Nabi was a Turkish

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 Divan

Diwan (poetry)

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 poet

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 in the court of Mehmet IV. He was famous for "his brilliant lyrics filled with popular sayings and critiques of the age and verses commenorating innumerable important occasions."

At the age of 24 Nabi left Şanlıurfa Province

Sanliurfa Province

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 and came to Istanbul

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. He also lived in Aleppo

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 (modern Syria

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). But when Baltacı Mehmet Pasha

Baltacı Mehmet Pasha

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 became the grand vizier

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he returned to İstanbul wher he died.