Prof. Dr. Erkan Türkmenwas born at Peshawar (Pakistan) in 1943. His ancestork came from Turkmenistan (Merv). In 1961 he migrated to Turkey. Prof. Türkmen is a multi - linguist and has command over Turkish (Ottoman Turkish), Urdu, English, persian, Arabic, Pashto, Panjabi and Turkic dialects. He is founding chairman of the Department of Eastern Languages and Literatures since 1985 at Seljuk University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Konya.The first three chapters of this book tends to reveal Rumis life, envir