On the picture: The last stanza of the poem “Ilim Ilim Belmektir” by Yunus Emre, on a plate in the recently arranged Yunus Emre Parkı, south of the mosque of the same name.

In translation:
Yunus Emre says to you, Pharisee,
Make the holy pilgrimage if need be
A hundred times - but if you ask me,
The visit to a heart is best of all.

Yunus Emre (c.1240-c.1321) is a poet and Sufi mystic, who lived in Karaman for a number of years. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present. Yunus Emre being, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Walad, one of the first known poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region, rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction remains very close to the popular speech of his contemporaries in Central and Western Anatolia.
Poems of Sultan Yunus Emre — despite being fairly simple on the surface — evidence his skill in describing quite abstruse mystical concepts in a clear way. They mainly concern divine love as well as human destiny.
Yunus Emre's portrait is depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 200 lira banknote issued in 2009.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: Website of ‘turkishculture.org’ & Wikipedia.