An analysis of Karamanlı Ayni's Divan in terms of society

Divan literature is a literature which contains the elements of social life of its period. Karamanlı Aynî, is one of the Divan poets who lived in Anatolia in the 15th century. He spent most of his life in Karaman, which was the center of Karamanids Principality. He established close relations with Cem Sultan and Karamanids ruler Kasım Bey and witnessed the political, social, cultural and literary events of the period. Due to the rich content it has in terms of social life elements, being a political divan, being a voluminous work, being the only work that has survived to the present day among the works of Cem poets, Cem Sultan, Kasım Bey, Karamanids Principality and important clues about the Ottoman state and in terms of not having a place in the tezkires, not having been studied at the graduate level, Karamanlı Aynî's divan was found worthy to study. The aim of this study is to examine the divan of Karamanlı Aynî in terms of community elements. For this purpose, Turkish poems in theAynî's Divan were analyzed. The elements of the society in the divan were carefully recorded, subcategories were formed by classifying the findings, poems were evaluated and the results were reached. As a result of this study it has been determined that Karamanlı Aynî's divan, has a very rich content in terms of community elements.