Türkiye’de Yapılan Popüler Dede Korkut Kitabı Yayınları
Popular Editions of the Book of Dede Korkut in Turkey

Summary/Abstract: The Book of Dede Qorqut is a collection of twelve stories set in the heroic age of the Oghuz Turks. A nomadic tribe who had journeyed westwards through Central Asia from the ninth century onwards. This book is accepted as one of the basic written sources because it contains information on various fields of Turkish culture. It is seen that it contains some hidden values of Turkish cultural memory, when Dede Qorqut were examined. In Turkey, between 1916-2015 more than 1638 scientific, popular and artistic Works including theses, articles and books on the Book of Dede Qorqut were published. In this work, the production and publishing process of the popular publications of The Book of Dede Qorqut was studied within a period of a 100 years. Based on the imprint information of 456 popular publications were chosen with the exemplification method, main criterion of “book-writer-reader-target audience”, analyzing them in terms of quality and quantity, the effects of these elements on the production and the publication of the works were studied. The research of this work, consists of The National Library catalogs and some biographical publications published in Turkey. It was studied with an interdisciplinary approach, and quantification levels (scales) of statistics and the methods of statistical data were used. As a result, the reasons and motives of which were effective in popular publications on The Book of Dede Qorqut was published in Turkey and determined and indicated.

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