(1420? - 1474) was the first known female Divan poet of the Ottoman Empire.
Raised in or near Amasya, Hatun received a good education, learning Arabic and Persian. Her father was a person of privilege, working as a judge. She would later move to Istanbul.
She wrote divans in service of Sultan Bayazid II and Prince Şehzade Ahmed.
Hatun wrote one divan in ode to and named after Fatih Sultan Mehmed, the father of Bayazid II, in Arabic and Persian. The divan was once in the Hagia Sophia Library under Abdul Hamid II, but it has since been lost.
Much of her poetry no longer exists. However, contemporary accounts record that her poetry often discussed wanting to be wiser or more intelligent. Her poetry also focused on gender norms (masculinity, femininity).
One of her surviving works is a gazel, which was republished in 1917.
Hatun would marry judge Qadi Ishaq Fahmi Chalabi. After marriage, Hatun withdrew from public life and the poetry community.
Hatun's divans were praised during and after her lifetime. Kınalı-zade claimed that “She has poems as perfect as men, her only shame is that she is a woman.” Writer Bursalı Mehmet Tahir Bey said she was equal to Fitnat Hanım. According to Ahmet Yassawi University and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's the Türk Edebiyatı İsimler Sözlüğü Projesi, Hatun "was one of the important poets of her time."
Conflicting Information Most of the information known about Hatun today comes from writings by two poets Latifî (1491–1582) and Aşık Çelebi (1520–1572).Selcuk Aksin Somel (2003), Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire, Scarecrow Press, p. 25, , OCLC 50316319 Writing after her death, Latifî claimed that Hatun never married while Çelebi stated that she married Chalabi. Latifî believed Hatun was born in Amasya whereas Çelebi believed she was born in Kastamonu. Some sources also conflate Hatun with her contemporary female poet peer Mihri Hatun.
Some reports say that Hatun knew Mihri Hatun and interacted in their poetry. However, as Hatun died in 1474 and Mihri Hatun was born in 1456/1460, their relationship, if any, differs between sources.
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