Abstract
Özrî and Poems
Although there are no independent studies about Özrî
(d. 1522), the son of Skopje judge Karaca Hasan and the
brother of poet İzârî, there are various comments about his
personality and poetry in biographies. Despite any of his
books or works did not reach to this day, some of his poets
can be found in the documents as well as in the nazire
journals in Topkapı Palace.
Âşık Çelebi narrates an alluring story about the poet
Özrî, who, like himself, was a judge and lived in the
vicinity of Skopje. Özrî, who had enough knowledge of
astronomy to present a calendar to the sultan every year,
participated in the Battle of Rhodes, one of the first
expeditions of Suleiman the Magnificent, and upon the
sultan's request for information on whether the castle
could be conquered, he informed that the moon would be
eclipsed at the time of the conquest of the castle and also
Özrî himself would die. Âşık Çelebi says that Özrî passed
away on the night of the lunar eclipse during the siege and
that the castle was conquered towards the morning.
In this study, after giving information about the life and
personality of Poet Özrî, it will be tried to validate the date
of his death with the help of modern astronomy data based
on the narration of Âşık Çelebi. Lastly, the text of Özrî's
poems, which were encountered in various journals, will
be given.
Keywords
Özrî, Âşık Çelebi, Rhodes Expedition, NASA, Peom.