Popular Turkish Love Lyrics and Folk Legends

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Popular Turkish Love Lyrics & Folk Legends Middle East Literature in Translation Michael Beard and Adnan Haydar, Series Editors Selected titles in Middle East Literature in Translation A Brave New Quest: 100 Modern Turkish Poems Talat S. Halman, ed. and trans.; Jayne L. Warner, assoc. ed. Canceled Memories: A Novel Nazik Saba Yared; Nadine Sinno, trans. İbrahim the Mad and Other Plays: An Anthology of Modern Turkish Drama, Volume One Talat S. Halman and Jayne L. Warner, eds. I, Anatolia and Other Plays: An Anthology of Modern Turkish Drama, Volume Two Talat S. Halman and Jayne L. Warner, eds. Moroccan Folktales Jilali El Koudia; Roger Allen, trans.; Hasan El-Shamy, ed. Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems Talat S. Halman, ed. and trans.; Jayne L. Warner, assoc. ed. Seasons of the Word: Selected Poems Hilmi Yavuz; Walter G. Andrews, trans. Sleeping in the Forest: Stories and Poems Sait Faik; Talat S. Halman, ed.; Jayne L. Warner, assoc. ed. Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language Abdelfattah Kilito; Waïl S. Hassan, trans. The Virgin of Solitude: A Novel Taghi Modarressi; Nasrin Rahimieh, trans. Popular Turkish Love Lyrics & Folk Legends Ta l at S. H a lm a n Illustrations by Zeki Fındıkoğlu Edited by Jayne L. Warner Syracuse University Press Copyright © 2009 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, NY 13244-5160 All Rights Reserved First Syracuse University Press Edition 2009 09 10 11 12 13 14 6 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Halman, Talât Sait. Popular Turkish love lyrics & folk legends / Talât S. Halman ; edited by Jayne L. Warner ; illustrations by Zeki Fındıkoğlu. — 1st Syracuse University Press ed. p. cm. — (Middle East literature in translation) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8156-0920-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Folk poetry, Turkish—Translations into English. I. Warner, Jayne L. II. Fındıkoğlu, Zeki, 1946– III. Title. IV. Title: Popular Turkish love lyrics and folk legends. GR280.H258 2009 398.2'049433—dc22 2009026983 Manufactured in the United States of America ...