Azerbaijani literature in Ahmed Kabakli’s researches

Abstract

In the article is provided detailed information about the difficulties that Ahmed Kabakli, well-known literary scholar of Turkey in the 20th century, faced in compiling materials on Azerbaijani literature, as well as in studying and presenting them to the Turkish scientific community. It is noted that the materials related to Azerbaijani literature are covered extensively in 4 volumes of the 5-volume book “Turkish Literature”. It is clear from the article that Ahmed Shemide from Turkish origin living in Germany played an invaluable role in delivering the materials about Azerbaijani literature to Ahmed Kabakli. He sent the materials posted to Germany by the prominent scholar from Baku, Abbas Zamanov and People’s Poet Bakhtiyar Vahabzade to the Turkey – Ahmed Kabakli on his own behalf. Thus Ahmed Kabakli was one of the prominent scholars who obtained and read on Azerbaijani literature in Turkey in the 20th century and then researched and popularized it. In the article is especially emphasized that the conveying the full text of the poems “Azerbaijan is a jugular in my heart” and “The longing for Karabakh” by Turkish poet from Azerbaijan origin – Yavuz Bulent Bakiler to the readers in the book “Turkish Literature” completes the theme of Azerbaijan in this multivolume.