The development of folk poetry in Turkish — which began to emerge in the 13th century with such important writers as Yunus Emre, Sultan Veled, and Şeyyâd Hamza — was given a great boost when, on 13 May 1277, Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey declared Turkish the official state language of Anatolia's powerful Karamanid state ; subsequently, many of the tradition's greatest poets would continue to emerge from this region.

The development of folk poetry in Turkish — which began to emerge in the 13th century with such important writers as Yunus Emre, Sultan Veled, and Şeyyâd Hamza — was given a great boost when, on 13 May 1277, Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey declared Turkish the official state language of Anatolia's powerful Karamanid state ; subsequently, many of the tradition's greatest poets would continue to emerge from this region.

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