Âşık Şenlik

 Âşık Şenlik


Âşık Şenlik, who is of Terekeme descent, was born with the real name Hasan in Aşık Şenlik Town (Yakınsu village) of Çıldır (Suhara) in 1850.


At the age of 19, he learned to play saz (a traditional musical instrument) from Aşık Nuri from Ahılkelek.


He traveled to Kars, Ahıska, Borçalı, Erzurum, Tiflis, Gürü, and Revan, where he encountered other saz poets of his time.


After his journey to Revan in 1913, he was poisoned by rival saz poets out of jealousy, and he died in Arpaçay district before reaching his hometown Çıldır.


During the 1877-1878 Ottoman-Russian War, he played a leadership role in the community. He recited his famous poem "93 Koçaklaması" during this period. The verse "giving the homeland to the enemy while alive" from this poem formed the fundamental philosophy of the homeland defense at that time.


He has 180 poems, including stories like Selman Bey, Latif Şah, and Sevdakar Şah. He benefited from the poems he heard from local saz poets in âşık gatherings, as well as from the conversations and cönk books (collections of folk literature) read in the region.


His poems are influenced by Köroğlu, Dadaloğlu, Karacaoğlan, and Hasta Hasan, a saz poet from the Azerbaijan region.


He had an influence on many saz poets of his time and those who came after him. Some of them include Sümmani, Posoflu Zülali, and Aşık Elesker from Azerbaijan.


[URL link as text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_HHAvTMlY&t=17s  ] (93 Koçaklaması adaptation)

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