| Bekir Sıtkı Erdoğan | |
| Birth Date: | 1926 |
| Birth Place: | Karaman, Turkey |
| Death Place: | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Genre: | Ottoman classical music, Turkish makam music |
| Occupation: | composer, lyrics author |
Bekir Sıtkı Erdoğan (1926 – August 24, 2014) was a Turkish poet and songwriter.[1]
He graduated in 1948 from a military college and served as a regimental officer. Later he graduated from the Faculty of Linguistics, History and Geography and taught literature at the Turkish Naval High School, the German Deutsche Schule and Marmara College.[2]
Erdoğan has written folk poetry in syllabic metric and aruz. He used Turkish lyrics in a number of songs. His Ruba'ic poems were published by Hisar.
He wrote the lyrics for the 50th anniversary of the Turkish Republic; "Cumhuriyetin 50. Yıl Marşı". The musical was organized by Necil Kazım Akses.[3]