This list includes the notable Turkish poets.

  • Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884–1958)
  • Ahmet Haşim (1885–1933)
  • Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel (1898–1973)
  • Nazım Hikmet (1902–1963)
  • Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983)
  • Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız (1905–1975)
  • Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906–1954)
  • Asaf Hâlet Çelebi (1907–1958)
  • Ahmet Muhip Dıranas (1908–1980)
  • Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (1910–1956)
  • Rıfat Ilgaz (1911–1993)
  • Orhan Veli Kanık (1914–1950)
  • Oktay Rifat Horozcu (1914–1988)
  • Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1915–2008)
  • Baki Süha Ediboğlu (1915–1972)
  • Melih Cevdet Anday (1915–2002)
  • Behçet Necatigil (1916–1979)
  • Cahit Külebi (1917–1997)
  • İlhan Berk (1918–2008)
  • Özdemir Asaf (1923–1981)
  • Attila İlhan (1925–2005)
  • Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan (1926–1984)
  • Asım Bezirci (1927–1993)
  • Ahmet Arif, (1927–1991)
  • Edip Cansever (1928–1986)
  • Ece Ayhan (1931–2002)
  • Cemal Süreya (1931–1990)
  • Sezai Karakoç (born 1933)
  • Gülten Akın (1933–2015)
  • Onat Kutlar (1936–1995)
  • Cahit Zarifoğlu (1940–1987)
  • İsmet Özel (born 1944)
  • Ahmet Emin Atasoy (born 1944)
  • Ali F. Bilir (born 1945)
  • Behçet Aysan (1949–1993)
  • Enis Batur (born 1952)
  • Lale Müldür (born 1956)
  • Haydar Ergülen (born 1956)
  • Seyhan Erözçelik (1962–2011)
  • Ahmet Yalçınkaya (born 1963)
  • Birhan Keskin (born 1963)
  • Seyhan Kurt (born 1971)
  • Kenan Yücel (born 1974)
  • Nurduran Duman (born 1974)
  • İbrahim Halil Baran (born 1981)
  • Süreyya Aylin Antmen (born 1981)

See also

  • List of Ottoman poets