1606-1680 TR
Karacaoğlan is a 17th-century Ottoman Turkish folk poet and ashik. His exact dates of birth and death are unknownbut it is widely accepted that he was born around 1606 and died around 1680. He lived around the city of Mutnear Mersin. His tomb, which organized as mausoleum in 1997, is in Karacaoğlan hill in the village of Karacaoğlan, Mut –Mersin/Turkey. In this meaning, he was the first known folk poet and ashik whose statue was built.