Gül Baba

See also: Gül Baba (operetta)

This article is about the sixteenth-century Ottoman poet. For other uses, see Gül Baba (disambiguation).
Gül Baba
Statue of Gül Baba in front of his türbe (mausoleum) in Budapest District II
Born
Merzifon (Ottoman Empire) 
Died1541
Buda (Ottoman Empire) 

Gül Baba (died 1541), also known as Jafer, was an Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet and companion of Sultan Suleiman I (r. 1520–1566) who took part in a number of campaigns in Europe from the reign of Mehmed II onwards.

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