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Manzume 137 — İnez'de yandı çırak-ı İslâm hôş

Amasya05 Editorial Board • Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk • 01 October 2026 • Updated: 14 October 2026 • 3 min reading

Three couplets signed Âşıkî on the taking of Enez: Has Yunus Beg sails into its harbour with ten galleys, the Conqueror comes by land to İpsala, and the tekfur surrenders.

Contents 4

1Original Ottoman Turkish Text
2In English
3Literary and Historical Commentary
4Bibliography

Original Ottoman Turkish Text

İnez'de yandı çırak-ı İslâm hôş
Gāzi Han gördi anı kıldı hurûş

Kıram Hak düşmenin alam diyârın
Kaçalar gāzilerden hemçü ser-pûş

Âşıkî yaz menâkıbını hanuñ
Ki virmişdür saña çok zer ve mevcûş

In English

1. In İnez the lamp of Islam burned brightly; the Gazi Khan saw it and was roused.

2. "Let me cut down God's enemy and take his land; let them flee from the gazis like veiled women."

3. Âşıkî, write the legends of the khan; for he has given you much gold and gilded (gifts).

Literary and Historical Commentary

İnez

The taking of İnez, that is Enez, in the hundred and twenty-fourth chapter begins with a complaint: the kadı of Fire reports that captives are escaping to İnez. The Conqueror orders Has Yunus Beg to go to İnez with ten galleys, azaps and good weapons and enter its harbour, telling no one until he arrives; he himself will come down by land to İpsala. Yunus Beg enters the harbour of İnez, and the sovereign reaches İpsala. The tekfur, seeing the Turk coming by land and sea, says, "The Turk wants to make me a captive too," and at once brings his wealth, his wife, a beautiful daughter and all his cavalrymen to the khan. The sovereign gives the tekfur and his cavalrymen good livings; he gives the empty houses to Muslims coming from round about, leaves the infidels who live there in place and turns the churches into mosques. The islands of Tanoz and Limoz opposite are taken too. The date is between 857 and 858 (1453-54).

The Khan Roused

Light greets the conquest: the lamp of Islam has been lit in İnez. The khan sees it and is roused. The second couplet is a wish in the khan's voice: he will cut down God's enemy and take his land. "Ser-pûş", veiled, is a scornful comparison likening the fleeing infidels to veiled women. The last couplet turns to the author himself and carries a personal detail: he must write the khan's legends, for the khan has given him much gold and gilded gifts. This last couplet is one of the records showing that Âşıkpaşazâde received favours from the Conqueror; the TDV article also records that the author received gifts from the Conqueror at the festivities of 1457 in Edirne. The couplets close on hôş, hurûş, ser-pûş and mevcûş, the sound "-ûş/-oş".