K̲h̲ayālī Mehmed Bey (died at

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in 1556), nicknamed Bekār Memi ("Memi the Bachelor"), was an Ottoman poet born in Yenice-i Vardar (modern

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, Greece). He was a bitter enemy of poet Yahya Bey.

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* Male poets from the Ottoman Empire 1556 deaths Year of birth unknown 16th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire {{poetry-stub People from Giannitsa