Iran Turkmen Poet Naz Muhammet Pakga and His Rubaies

Abstract

Naz Muhammet Pakga has a significant place in Iran Turkmen litareturebecause of his contribution to poetry and his strong speech abilityrooting from Turkmensahra territory. Pakga wrote his poems combiningwritten language of Turkmen literature and Yomut dialect. He is especiallyfamous for his poems in rubaie form. Although this poem form, whichshows the power of speech and the richness of Turkmen literature, has similarcontent and style with the rubaie in classical literature, it has similarrhythm and rhyme structure with folk poems.His innovative plans and studies about translating his work to Persianremained half-finished due to his early death. But his contribution toTurkmen language and literature was more than that. In addition to beinga poet, he was also a writer-journalist. He made translations, wrote andmade studies for various magazines and journals contributing to Turkmenliterary movements. He was the first one to write headline in TurkmanTurkish in a journal (a page named Alaçık published in Gülistan-ı Iranjournal) in Iran and he was the one who laid the foundation of journalismin mother tongue in Iran.In this study; themes of his work, properties of his language and spellingare analyzed depending on Pakga's life, works, literary personality