rumelia-in-the-poems-of-the-kosovar-poet-zeynel-beksac 2023 4 Zeynel Beksaç's Rumeli, O Benim İşte! Collected Poems (1971-2017) was published by Türkçem Publications
in 2017. Considering this work of Beksaç, how he dealt with the concept of Rumelia in his poems was
examined. The frequent mention of the word Rumelia in the poet's works is proof that this problematic has a
significance. The main source of this work is the book Rumeli, O Benim İşte!. As a result of scanning and
examinations, it has been detected that the concept of Rumelia is mentioned in eighteen poems. When we
look at the subject in this motto and approach it with a biographical reading, it is quite natural that a poet who
lives in Rumelia always takes his hometown as an issue, keeps it on his agenda, and has various meanings in
his poems. Along with the analysis of the poems, many concepts such as migration, tears, pain, longing,
Turkish identity struggle etc. in Rumelia overlap. As a safe harbor to shelter from negativities, the poet
positions Turkish language as a guardian of Rumelia. The major point stressed in the main framework is the
change of demographic structure after the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire from these lands, the identity
struggle with the new regimes, and the tragic situations reflected in art. It is stated that Rumelia can survive
with Turkish language yet.

]]> Zeynel Beksaç, Turkish Poetry, Rumelia, Turkish, Kosovo 2023-06-08 https://ijep.ibupress.com/articles/rumelia-in-the-poems-of-the-kosovar-poet-zeynel-beksac 1 144-151 tr CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ KOSOVALI ŞAİR ZEYNEL BEKSAÇ'IN ŞİİRLERİNDE RUMELİ Mumin Aliov Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Turkish Language and Literature true 2671-3535 2671-3543 Balkan University Press https://ijep.ibupress.com