Dertli (İbrahim)

Dertli, whose given name was İbrâhim, was born around 1772 in the village of Şahnalar, in the Bolu region, and at first signed Lutfî. The son of a peasant dispossessed of his lands, he spent three years between Istanbul and Konya, then ten years in Egypt, married, had two sons and took to the road again across Anatolia. A poem in praise of the fez earned him, according to the Diyanet, a notable's post at Çağa, which he soon lost. Close to the Bektashis, he died in Ankara, in 1845 or 1846 depending on the sources, and was buried in his native region.

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