"'" (') is a popular Turkish "türkü" (folk song) and a legend on which the song is based. is a popular folktale in Turkey about an impossible love between a Muslim Turkish man (the composer himself) and a Greek-origin Muslim girl, his neighbor, from Seyitgazi. There are similar folk tunes in Anatolia among various ethnic groups, for instance, in Armenian () in Armenia.
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