GYPSIES IN THE DIVAN OF TIRS？

Since the poet is the man of his time and society, he inevitably responds to his social circle. In other words, the poem carries the traces of the culture in which it is formed. Classical Turkish poetry cannot be excluded from this general rule. Therefore, we can say that all divans have material related to social and cultural issues; however, in some divans, these materials are considerably higher than other divans. T？rs？’s Divan is one of them. ？brahim T？rsi, one of the 18th century poets, wrote many couplets reflecting the social environment, daily life and the culture of that period in the poems in his Divan. Clothing has touched on many subjects from food to food, from music to professions. One of these issues is the gypsies. The poet, based on the events he witnessed in the social environment and the perceptions of the society, created an image of a gypsy and reflected it in a sarcastic and humorous style. According to him, the Gypsies are poor enough to hold the fast with dry bread; thieves and unreliable to play from the bath. They live in tents. They are fraudulent in shopping, they are cowardly in fighting. They have a bad life, live a miserable life. In our article, our aim is to show how social issues are reflected in divan poetry in the context of T？rs？ Divan？ and gypsies. Our review will be on 19 couplets that we have reached by scanning the words of gypsy, gypsy, and gypsy in the T？rsi Court. We will examine our findings in six chapters: 1) Poverty, 2) Fortune telling, 3) Unreliability, 4) Cowardice, 5) Gypsyness of the Tarsi, 6) Other