If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?

In 1946 Ahmed Adnan Saygun composed an oratorio entitled Yunus Emre. This is also the language of a number of anonymous folk-poets folk-songs fairy tales riddles (tekerlemeler) and proverbs.

Like the Oghuz Book of Dede Korkut an older and anonymous Central Asian epic the Turkish folklore that inspired Yunus Emre in his occasional use of tekerlemeler as a poetic device had been handed down orally to him and his contemporaries. This is also the language of a number of anonymous folk-poets folk-songs fairy tales riddles (tekerlemeler) and proverbs. His poems written in the tradition of Anatolian folk poetry mainly concern divine love as well as human destiny:

Yunus Emre's portrait is depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 200 lira banknote issued in 2009.