A BRIDGE TO THE BALKANS: NAQSHI DIVAN POETS (BALKANLAR’A UZANAN BİR KÖPRÜ: NAKŞİ DİVAN ŞAİRLERİ)

That the idea of conquest constitutes integrity in Ottoman and in this integrity, the hearts bridges founded by dervishes to show their language, religion, culture, and way of life as an alternative life style through the state language have been effective in achieving long-term and lasting impact, traces of which can easily be seen even today in the Balkans. Some divan poets were also affected by the ideas and methods the Naqshbandi sect produced. As some of these poets spread to the four corners of the world in an attempt to propagate and sustain Naqshbandiyya, in spite of some differences, they repeated the common feelings in the verses of a large geographical area from the central Asia to Anatolia and took their place between the spiritual architects of this bridge built by the reflection of the same thoughts in the Balkans. The bridge to the Balkans was built by some of Naqshi divan poets in many different methods such as by staying until their death in the place where migrated with sublime feelings, education, trade civil service, work of arts, thoughts and relationships. The Naqshi divan poets who took place among the architects of the spiritual bridge built between the Balkans and us and some Naqshi poets who could be determined from the sources in terms of giving an idea about the ideas they introduced and, if any, the samples of their poems were given in the last part of the study.