Mihri Hatun

Mihri Hatun (also known as Lady Mihri and Mihri Khatun, Ottoman Turkish: مهری خاتون; "sun/light"; 1456/1460- c.1506), was an Ottoman poet. She was the daughter of a kadi (an Ottoman judge) and was born in Amasya. According to sources she spent most of her life in and near Amasya, in Anatolia. Documentation places her as a member of the literary circle of Şehzade Ahmed, the son of Sultan Bayezid II. She is referred to as the "Sappho of the Ottomans".

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