Kırım Karay Türkleri Arasında Köroğlu Destanının İzleri
Epic of Koroghlu Traces Between Crimean Karay Turks

Summary/Abstract: The epic of Koroghlu, one of the most important narratives of The Turkish epic tradition, has been taken place in almost all of the Turkish cultural geography from Turkistan to the Balkans. Undoubtedly that Turkish people lived in different and very distant regions in the historical process,but language is the most important assembly historical factor. In this respect, Koroghlu Epic is one of the narratives which have been subjected to the most cultural diversity in terms of transference and spread within the geography of the Turkish world. The Epic of Koroghlu has also taken a place among the Crimean Karay Turks; It has been observed in a printed journal with Hebrew letters by us that there were folk poems of Koroghlu. Karay Turks who are belonged to the Karaism sect of Judaism,has combined their creations of folk literature with the power of writing and transferred them to the magazines that they called ‘mecuma’. In this study, 20 poems ‘Kör Oglı’ titled in a magazine taken from Karay library founded by S, Şapşal in Crimea Kezlev city aimed to be transferring to the field of Turkology by transferring from Hebrew letters to Latin letters.

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