Leyla Çağlı

(1970-2022) was a poet, writer, and educator. Born in Karakoçan, Elazığ, and later based in Antalya, where she worked as a teacher, she published in a number of Turkish literary journals and brought out the books Saksıda Deniz and Ağzımda Sustu Şehrazat. Her poetry moves inward rather than outward: compressed, intense, and quietly haunted, it draws its force from emotional depth, disturbance, and a language that seems to listen for what resists easy saying. Though still too little known beyond Turkish literary circles, she remains a distinctive voice in contemporary Turkish poetry.