H. Mehmet Yavuz Identity Library

H. Mehmet Yavuz

In the 12th and 13th centuries, Turkmen travelers who flocked to Anatolia from Central Asia made a great contribution to making these lands the Turkish Homeland as “Khorasan Saints”.

Dede Korkut, Ahi Evran, Sarı Saltuk, Şeyh Edebali, Hacı Bektaş-i Veli, Yunus Emre, Şair Zihni, Celali, Aşık Hicrani, Ağlar Baba, Dede Pasha and many more “Eren” passed through these lands…

Hacı Mehmet Yavuz was one of the last representatives of our great cultural heritage…
As a teacher, he educated thousands of students, he looked at the world with the eyes of his heart, he did not envy anyone, he did not recognize the feeling of envy, he shared the troubles, burying his own troubles inside…

We founded this museum together, we turned the stones into heads, the plateaus into honey, the folk songs into branches, we held on to our roots and made our past a bridge to the present….
We said mother, we said ancestor, we said land and we said friend…

He was the modern Dede Korkut of these lands, the song of weddings, the lament of painful days…
One cold winter day, he set out to go to the owner of eternity… He now lives in the heart of the land he loves and in the hearts of his friends…