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He was born in Aşıkzülali (Suskap) village of Posof district. Their names are said to be Sugar. Yusuf is the fourth of the family's six children. He made his first education in his village. He studied the madrasa in Digor. At this time, he went to Istanbul next to his brother and continued to the madrasah and studied Arabic-Persian. At the age of twelve, he became “People Drinked-People's Lover” with two dream events that happened and started to sing poetry. His real name is Yusuf, his last name is Kökten.nnHis first wife, Pamuk Hanım, was from Pınarlı / Suloban village of Şavşat. Pamuk had no children. Zülali went to Bursa in 1893 and visited 93 migrants from Posof and Artvin. There he entered the Hamidiye Agricultural School and studied for three years. He returned to his hometown Posof in 1896 because of a disease.nnAfter 1904, he started to teach Turkish and Religion classes at schools in Batumi-Hula and Posof. When he was thirty-one years old, the great fame of the reeds and speech squares for sixteen years, Zülali started to work with all his strength for the independence and freedom of his country in the Russian yoke as a teacher. He proposed the opening of a Turkish national school and nationalist work in Kars.nnIn 1906, his wife Pamuk Hanım passed away. He later married a woman named Bedir, who was a widow in Hanak's Upper Surmal Village.nnUntil 1909, he worked for the spread and settlement of Turkism and Turkish Union movements in Batumi as well as his teachings. In 1910, he emigrated to Bursa and then to Afyon and settled in Sarıçayır village. His father and other siblings came here after him and settled in the village.nnIn the spring of 1930, Aşık Zülali, who went to Posof for slab, sang burnt poems with the inspiration of this journey. Within six months, Posof traveled to Ardahan and Çıldır and returned to Afyon. He worked as an imam in a village near Saricayir. It was known to everyone that Aşık Zülali was a Turkist. He was one of the founders of Manisa Türkocağı in 1940. In Manisa, when he was with his son, he lost one of his eyes due to his discomfort by adding an eye.nnAşık Zülali had five children named Zeynel, Osman, Zarife, Şahide and Cemile. Now the age of 83, the poet lived the last days of his life. He died in December 18, 1956 by having a heart attack while he was at the house of his daughter Cemile in Eskişehir. His body was brought to Çifteler and buried in the city cemetery.

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