KAHTÂN HÜRMÜZLÜ'NÜN BURASI KERKÜK ADLI OTOGRAF PİYESİ ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME
AN EXAMINATION ON THE AUTOGRAPHIC EPISODE OF KAHTAN HURMUZLU'S HERE IS KERKUK

Summary/Abstract: Kirkuk in which many communities, languages and religions lives together is a small miniature of Iraq's social structure with its deep-rooted cultural heritage. One of the most important sources of this heritage is Iraqi Turkmen Literature. Kahtân Hürmüzlü, one of the well-known versatile items of Contemporary Iraqi Turkmen Literature has opened his eyes to the world on July 1, 1936 in Karatepe sub-district of Kirkuk province. Hürmüzlü, who is a member of a well-known family with art, culture and literature; has gained fame in the art community with his poetry, stories, novels, prose, plays, translations and criticism written with his mother language Turkmen -old Turkish- in addition to Arabic. The words used by Kahtân Hürmüzlü in his writings are sincere and emotional. He emphasizes the concepts of humanity, brotherhood, freedom and peace in his works. The reflections of these concepts can easily be seen in the text of the autograph play named Here is Kirkuk, which is composed of these opinions and thoughts mentioned by the author. Hürmüzlü is one of the contributively representatives of Iraqi Turkmen Literature, as well as he contributed to the enrichment of Turkish World Literature in different geographies and its becoming an art. Since Kahtân Hürmüzlü is a versatile writer, the scope of our study is limited to the autograph play named Here is Kirkuk.

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