It is deemed that Ercişli Emrah lived in the first half of the 12^th century and was born in Ergans, which is a Karakoyunlu village of Erciş castle. He is the son of Minstrel Ahmet who is the saz player of Miroğlu, the head of Erciş castle.

He fell in love with Miroğlu’s daughter Selvihan and traveled the western parts of Iran and Azerbaijan with his lover and has told the events he have seen with a clear Turkish.

Today I saw a beauty

She looked through her heaven palace

My eyes dazzled

From her beauty

She swaggered and entered the garden

The flowers saluted

The purple violet bent

The rose blushed because of her shame

I opened the door of the garden

I felt I was in heaven

I spoke with my lover secretly

Took a rose from her cheek

The door of the garden is rose

The nightingale sings beside it

Mean Emrah is a bad man

Forgive his sins

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