The poets who wrote poems in Uzbek Turkish in South Turkistan or Afghanistan among 1900-2000

Uzbek-Turks are the third greatest ethnical community living in Afghanistan. Afghanistan and its surroundings, historically, was the region for the Turkish states such as Gaznavids, Great Seljuks, Timuris and Shaybanids. Actually about the northern part of this country the terms like south Turkistan, Afghan Turkistan or Bend-e Turkistan are used in the resources. In addition, over the centuries in the Turkish estates out off Ottoman domination, Turkish language used as a literary language was in fact classical Eastern Turkish, which was also called Chaghtay Turkish at Amir Ali Shir Navayee's homeland. Navayee was the greatest poet and defender of Turkish Language at the time. There are two great heirs of the great Turkish civilization in this country: Uzbek and Turkmen Turks, despite of scarce opportunities and different constraints they continued to write literary books in their own languages. Because of the existence of specific conditions and limitations followed against the Turks along with other ethnical communities in Afghanistan there is not enough information about the poets. For example, concrete data related to the Turkish demography in this country is not clear. Across the country among the total population of approximately 31 million people, Uzbek and Turkmens are given with the rate of 11%. As to be seen in the following section – Literary Review studies conducted in Turkey is limited and not enough. This study will be formed using by the biographies of living poets in Afghanistan, especially writing by their own native language; getting direct information face to face or telephone interviews conducted with thenselves who are still living or direct information received from their closest relatives-in addition, examples of the poems belonging to relevant poets will also be given. Thus, deficiencies in existing publications in this field will be eliminated or incorrect information will be corrected.