Rezeda Ganieva (b.1932), Theorist of literature, Doctor of Philology (1992), Professor (1993), Honoured Science Worker of the Republic of Tatarstan (1994):
Folk origins and socio-political character of Tukay’s oeuvre was frequently emphasized by foreign mass media, particularly by Turkish periodicals. The Islam Dunyasy magazine (The Islamic World), for example, wrote, ‘Me should admit that Ottoman Turks still have no such a poet… as Abdulla Tukaev… We laud either bashaws, or padishahs.’ The magazine so highly appreciated the civicism of Tukay’s poetry, denouncing conservative Turkish panegirical romanticists with their innumerable poems devoted to wine, music, roses, and nightingales, as well as those who wrote elegiacs, mourning over falling autumn leaves.
One of the best articles published in connection with anniversary of Tukay’s death is an article written by progressive Turkish theorist of literature Mehmet Fuat Koprulu in the Türk Yurdu magazine (The Hearth of Turkoman). He absolutely objectively mentioned that “political tendency is particularly strong in Tukay’s character”, and literature of the Kazan Tatars that has such an outstanding and selfless poet is based on stable foundation and has great future.
All the authors, including M.F.Koprulu, mention about aesthetic open-mindedness of Tukay, many-sided character of his connections with literature of the East and the West. Pointing out rich
literary sources of Tukay’s romanticism, that implemented synthesis of the Russian and European (especially German) cultures, M.F.Koprulu noted that Tukay managed to ‘rose to the level of Russian and German romanticists” in a short span of time.
Later, this M.F.Koprulu’s thought about romantic character of Tukay’s oeuvre was further developed in the works of another Turkish theorist of literature, Professor Ahmed Timeri.