Yavuz Bulent Bakiler: An Azeri Soul in Anatolia

Yavuz Bulent Bakiler, who is the son of an immigrant family from Azerbaijan which has settled in Sivas, is one of the most colourful characters of the Modern Turkish Literature. Topics like 'mother', 'Anatolia' and 'The Turkic World' are prominent themes among others. His prose varies from biographies to political histories, from essays to itineraries. Bakiler, who is a solicitor and has a not very successful political career, has used the 'mother' topic so much in his poetry that he has been named as the 'The Poet of Mother', and has been favoured by nationalist - conservative communities as a result of the topics like 'Azerbaijan' and 'Turkestan' he has used both in his poetry and prose. Another characteristic of Bakiler is his sensitivity on the correct usage of the Turkish language