The Impact of the Turkish Modern Literature on the Persian Poetry of the Constitutional Era

The cultural ties between Iran and modern Turkey have long lasting historical roots, apart from the ancient relations associated with the old history, from the Seljuks onward, the ties between this strong culture have become so intense that in some historical time period we can hardly draw a sharp line between the cultural borders of the two countries. One of the most outstanding ties is manifested in literary relationships between Iran and Turkey. Through examining the literary ties and relationships between the two nations we can divide it into two time periods: premodern (the Seljuks and the Ottoman empire periods) and post-modern (the periods of Tanzimat/Transition, the Constitutionalism and the Turkish Republic).
The present paper, in addition to pointing out the history of the cultural and literary relationships between Iran and Turkey and the prevalent of Persian language and literature during pre-modern era and its impact on the Turkish court literature of this time period, known as Divan poetry, attempts to study the literary relation of the two countries during the Tanzimat period, especially during both the Ottoman and Iran Constitutionalism, The presupposition of the present paper is that since the Ottoman Constitutionalism the influential process has been reversed, as a result Persian literature, especially Persian poetry has been affected by the Turkish modern literature.
The author, by citing some evidences, has tried to explain the process of this impact.