Turkey and Iraq has undergone similar changes in a specific period of time in contemporary history, and thus have some commonalities.
The prevalent atmosphere in these countries, and changes in the world and in the Middle East have influenced every aspects in general and the literature in particular. The emergence of a generation of modernist poets is also a result of these changes. Nazem Hekmat in Turkey and Abd-al-Wahhab al-Bayati in Iraq are two modern poems who introduced the modern verse to the literature of their countries. Nazam Hekmat won the peace prize and year 2000 was named after him. This paper is an attempt to investigate the probable interacting effects between these two poets.