AN EXAMPLE OF URBAN LAUDATORY-POEM IN MIHR HATUN’S DIWAN: L DIK

Works written to describe a town or its beautiful women are named as ehr-eng z in the Classical Turkish Literature. Poets write out works of the genre ehr-eng z in verse or prose. They also give place, in their diwans, to poems of towns they visit.In this paper, the a poem describing the town of Ladik will be considered. The related poem takes place in diwan by Mihr Hatun, one of our notable woman poets who lived in Amasya, a cultural center of the 15th century.