What is Yunus Emre?
{{Infobox religious biography | era = [[Anatolian Beyliks]] | name = Yûnus Emre | native_name = يونس امره | native_name_lang = otm | image = Karaman Yunus Emre monument 4725.jpg | caption = Statue of Yûnus Emre in [[Karaman]], Turkey | honorific-prefix = | birth_date = 1238 | birth_place = Sarıköy near [[Sivrihisar]],{{sfn|Güzel|Oğuz|Karatay|2002|p=672}}{{sfn|Ambros|2002|p=349}} [[Sultanate of Rum]], now [[Turkey]] | death_date = 1320 | death_place = [[Yunusemre, Mihalıçcık|Yunusemre]] (formerly Saru), [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Beylik]], now [[Turkey]] | father = | ethnicity = [[Turkish people|Turkish]] | period = 13th and 14th century | known_for = [[Sufism]], [[Diwan (poetry)|Diwan]] in [[Old Anatolian Turkish]] | works = | influences = [[Tapduk Emre]], [[Rumi]], [[Ahmed Yesevi]] and [[Haji Bektash Veli]] | influenced = | religion = [[Islam]] }} '''Yunus Emre''' ({{IPA-tr|jūˈnus emˈɾe}}) also known as '''Derviş Yûnus''' (Yûnus the [[Dervish]]) (1238–1320) was a [[Turkish people|Turkish]] [[Folklore|folk poet]] and [[Sufism|Sufi]] who was important to [[Turkey|Turkish]] [[literature|writing]] from his time to now. He was one of the first poets to write in Old Anatolian Turkish - after [[Sultan Walad]] ''(eldest son of [[Rumi]]).''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yunus Emre Poems and Biography|url=https://mypoeticside.com/poets/yunus-emre-poems|access-date=1 February 2024|website=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Hassan|first=Ammara|date=4 September 2023|title=Yunus Emre: The Unsung Poet|url=https://medium.com/illumination/yunus-emre-the-unsung-poet-27b304d0fecb|access-date=1 February 2024|website=[[Medium (website)|Medium]]|language=en|archive-date=1 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201070410/https://medium.com/illumination/yunus-emre-the-unsung-poet-27b304d0fecb|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a popular poet who died when he w