Hidir Lutfi (1880 – 23 June 1959) was an Iraqi poet. Born in

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in a

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n Turkish family, he studied Arabic, Persian and Turkish. He has an unprinted Diwan of poetry, many literary researches, and a book in the history of Kirkuk. He died in his hometown and was buried there.

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1880 births 1959 deaths Turkish-language Iraqi poets Kurdish-language poets Turkish-language poets Persian-language poets 19th-century poets from Ottoman Iraq 20th-century Iraqi poets People from Kirkuk Iraqi people of Turkish descent Iraqi multilingual poets Iraqi Turkmen people Iraqi Yarsanis {{Iraq-poet-stub