Şerafettin Taşliova (10 April 1938 – 20 September 2014) was a Turkish storyteller in the asik bardic tradition.
[1][2][3][4] Taşliova won many prizes at bardic contests for improvised poetry and storytelling; many at international level.
He made appearances on a number of Turkish television stations, and had been making a regular radio broadcast since 1966.
He also appeared in the Michael Wood BBC documentaries In Search of the Trojan War (1985) and In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (1997), in which he demonstrates the oral traditions of the storyteller.
He was born in the village of Pekşeren (Gülyüzü), in the district of Çıldır in the Ardahan Province, on April 10, 1938.