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HAJI BEKTASHI VELI’S VELÂYETNÂME AS A LITERARY SOURCE ABOUT MEDIEVAL ANATOLIA

Author(s): Tunay Karakök / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2023

After the Battle of Talas, which took place in the middle of the VIIIth century, the process of accepting Islam by the Turks began. The Turks, who had stood side by side in this war with the members of this new religion, which they had the opportunity to meet on various occasions before, have now entered the process of gradually accepting this religion after recognizing it. With this acceptance, Turks will succeed in raising many important figures in the field of thought, as in many other fields. Mahmud al-Kashgari, Yusuf Khass Hajib, Ahmad bin Mahmud Yukenaki and Khoja Akhmet Yassawi are a few of them. These personalities lived before the Turks came to Anatolia. However, their influence continued to increase after the arrival of the Turks in Anatolia at the beginning of the Xth century. Scientific and intellectual activities that started in Central Asia entered a new phase with the conquest of Anatolia. This phase is the one in which the Turkish understanding of religion is shaped and a new interpretation of the religion of Islam is formed. Personalities such as Mawlānā, Yunus Emre, Ak̲h̲ī Ewrān and Haji Bektashi Veli who grew up in this period struggled to spread this new religion both among Türker and in the Anatolian geography. The works they produced, the dervish lodges, zawiyas and sufi centers they established, and Haji Bektashi Veli, one of these personalities who tried to continue these struggles, and his Velâyetnâme, which is considered to be his most important literary work, are discussed in this study. The work in question; When the content is evaluated in the context of the events and dates it deals with, it is an important literary and historical resource for medieval Anatolia.

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İSLAMCILIKTAN MUHAFAZAKÂRLIĞA: ROMAN TÜRÜ ÜZERİNDEN TÜRKİYE’DE İSLAMİ KİMLİĞİN DÖNÜŞÜMÜ ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME

Author(s): Şükrü Mutlu KARAKOÇ / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 27/2023

In terms of defining the position, weight and route of Islamic identity in Turkish politics, the examining its historical characteristics and the change there offers an important opportunity. This study aims to deal with the historical course of the Islamic identity / discourse, which began to come to the fore in the political and cultural grounds in the 1970s in Republican Turkey, through the narrative world of Islamic novels, the first examples of which were given in this period and reaching to the 2000s. For this reason, the text analysis method is used in this study. In this study, it is indicated that Islamic identity / discourse is periodically shaped around different understandings and different approaches and generally follows a historical course that evolves from Islamism to Conservatism.

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Betül Tarıman’ın Şiirinde Vahşi Kadının Yeniden Doğuşu

Author(s): Mihrican Aylanç / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 114/2023

In Women Who Run with Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes goes after the ‘creative, talented, and immersed woman symbol’ which has been ignored by psychoanalysis for a long time, where she chases the pure reality of women whose internal nature has been damaged, whose souls have been tossed to the most pathetic lands, and who have taken on unnatural rhythms over their natural cycles just to please others. While women continue to instinctively share archetypes, Betül Tarıman, who displays an internal womanhood stance in the Anatolian geography, raises the mythical era narrative voices for us women, from her work Hadde, that is sensitive to her emotions, conscious, and tactile pleasures, and creatively transforms them into modern poetry. As Estes breaks the silence regarding issues surrounding her style, knowledge, and creative fire for women’s different eras, which can be defined as archetypical, intuitive, sexual, and cyclic. With this analysis, which follows in the footsteps of the wild woman archetype, added to the literature by Estes, I added poetry to the existing myths and fairy tales. I emphasize that poetry can too be just as long lasting as they are while being an enunciation leading to wisdom. This archetypical perspective, like mythical stories, poetry sets forth the sharp realization that can help conceptualize our visual power to see nature’s naiveté. Betül Tarıman, a woman who found her voice in nature, is a wild spirit. She moves forward in an alchemical cycle of loss, disjunction, and enlightenment during her journey that ends with wisdom. She awakens in a sacred location in eternity, independent of time and place, created by poetic language and word. This way, she creates the myth of the modern woman hero. By connecting with the wild woman archetype, she transforms into an eternal inner voice, calling out to women in search of themselves during their journey of initiation.

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Zerdüştilik ve Yezîdîlik İnançlarının Romanlarda Ele Alınışı

Author(s): Hünkar Karaca Yalçın / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 114/2023

Along with individuals lives, literary works address shared mental worlds of societies, historical milestones, beliefs, and cultures. The concept of belief is also one of the factors that shape societies’ identities and art-literary works. Turkish authors have discussed both the societies they were born into and the beliefs of the “other” societies, as well as the cultural characteristics arising from their beliefs, in their works from the past to the present. When these beliefs are examined, it is clear that the religions of the Zoroastrians and Yazidis, both of whom are considered minorities, are at the forefront. In novels, these two beliefs were compared with Islam, Christianism, and Judaism, and their underlying philosophies, their effects on rituals in ceremonies such as weddings and funerals, and how the belief and “national” identities became an entrenched structure were discussed. Furthermore, the novels discussed how these societies perceived minorities maintained their value judgments in the Middle East, where dominant cultures and religions are present, as well as their conflicts with strong states in the region. In this study, the reflections of Yezidism and Zoroastrianism in Turkish novel has been discussed.

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KONYA MEVLÂNA MÜZESİ’NDE BULUNAN 1069 NOLU EVRÂD-I MEVLÂNA ADLI ESERİN KİTAP SANATLARI BAKIMINDAN İNCELENMESİ

Author(s): Mutluhan Taş,Emine TÜRKEŞ / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 21/2022

Manuscripts have gained a place in the life of mankind with the manufacture of paper starting from the discovery of writing. After the spread of Islam, different art schools emerged due to the need to multiply the Holy Qur'an. We can say that branches of art such as calligraphy, illumination, miniature, binding, marbling emerged for the decoration of manuscripts or for other reasons. The preservation of these valuable works is also of utmost importance. For this reason, it is also important to research manuscripts, to bring them to light and to transfer scientific studies to future generations. The work was prepared in 1886 (H.1304) by Hattat Vahdeti Efendi in accordance with the request of Sheikh Osman Selahaddin Dede, one of the dervishes of Yenikapı Mevlevi House. The lives of Sheikh Osman Salahaddin and Calligrapher Vahdetî Efendi were determined as a result of researches and it was registered that they were prepared by these people in the foundation on the last page of the work. In addition to the fact that the work titled "Konya Mevlânâ Müzesi 1069 Inventory Nolu Evrâd-ı Mevlânâ" that we have examined contains information about the Mevlevi Evrâd Tradition, it has been deemed worthy of research because it also contains the calligraphy, illumination and skin art features of the period. Manuscript was examined in terms of binding, calligraphy and illumination from Turkish Book Arts.

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Mehmet Akif Ersoy’un Orta Asya Türk Dünyası İle İlgili Müşahedeleri

Author(s): Yener Unal,Cemal Özdemir / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 30/2023

In his poems, Mehmet Akif Ersoy expresses the troubles and sufferings of the Central Asian, Caucasian and Balkan nations that were left unclaimed during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. In this study, the issue of Central Asia and its problems in Ersoy's works will be discussed. The research draws attention to the backwardness, poverty and suffering of the local people of the Turkish world. Akif takes his place among the most important poets of Turkish Literature with his originality of the world of thought and his strong style in the language of poetry. The unique features of the poet's poems played an important role in Akif's special place among many poets of his time. The world view shaped around these values in Akif's works of understanding of Turkishness and Islam attracted attention not only in Anatolia but also in other places. Akif clearly describes some of the negative situations experienced by the geography of the Turkish World in his works. By drawing attention to the problems of the society in which he lives, he investigates how the problems arise and looks for ways to solve them. Akif also attaches special importance to the Turkish world living in the geography of the Islamic world. The poet, who describes the difficulties and poverty in the Turkish world in his works, tells the general situation in the Turkish world. In his work, Süleymaniye Chair, Abdürreşid İbrahim sheds light on the important issues of the region with his own words. The information about Central Asia in the poet's works reflects the understanding of national unity and integrity. Akif's influences in the Turkish World increased with Sırat-ı Müstakim, and it was effective in his transformation into a man of action. In this article, the characteristics of Akif, which are considered remarkable by the poets of the Turkish World, are discussed. In the examination, in which the interest shown by some Turkish World Poets to Akif's poems and personality is reflected in comparative texts, the identification of poets who had direct contact with Akif or who carried his influence into their poems, and the context in which they were affected, were evaluated considering the social and political conditions of the period. This study was carried out in order to determine the themes such as the problems of the Central Asian Turkish World, independence, awakening, underdevelopment and poverty in the works of Mehmet Akif Ersoy. In order to achieve this aim, qualitative research and comparison method was used in this study. In order to collect data in the research, the document analysis method from the qualitative research motifs was used. The data obtained are also given within the framework of the work “Safahat”.

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Typology of the Category of Case in Beowulf, The Book of Dede Korkut, The Song of the Nibelungs and The Tale of Igor's Campaign

Author(s): Sevinj Khabib Fataliyeva / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2023

The paper aims to explore the typology of the category of case in the epics Beowulf, The Book of Dede Korkut, The Song of The Nibelungs and The Tale of Igor's Campaign. It draws certain universal features and their nature based on the contrastive study of all the mentioned epic texts. The contrastive analysis reveals similarities in how various morphological units express the case category in these texts, suggesting that they have a deep root rather than an occasional nature. On the other hand, the results of such typological studies provide essential arguments to researchers in psychology, cultural studies, history, sociology, and other disciplines within this context. Our research topic is related to studying the typological features of case categories in ancient epics of diverse, unrelated, and geographically dispersed language speakers. In this context, it connects us to the unity of human nature and directs us towards the unity of biological and cognitive organisation. In ancient epics, identifying typological characteristics by case category means increasing the volume of language universals in this context. In ancient epics, the type of cases, and their development directions, are almost similar.

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ESEJ O MEVLUDU VESÎLETÜ’N-NECÂT SULEJMANA ČELEBIJA

Author(s): Kerima Filan / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 93/2023

Mawlūd written by Süleyman Çelebi in the Turkish language in the first half of15th century is regarded as one of the most significant works of the entire mawlūd literary genre. It was a source of inspiration for many Ottoman poets in the coming centuries who wrote verses in honour of the Messenger of Islam, Muhammad s.w.s. in Turkish as well as in other languages. All the later works are evaluated with regard to the literary-artistic value and the content of the text by comparison to Süleyman Çelebi’s Mawlūd. This article presents the content of Mawlūd of Süleyman Çelebi in a form of an essay. Sixteen poems of this Mawlūda are here devided by the author in three thematic groups: (1) poems relating of the Oneness of God te’ala, creation of the World and the Messinger’s s.w.s. nature (2) poems that speak of the Messinger’s life here on earth, and (3) poems that celebrate the being of the Messenger s.w.s. The entire text is permeated with the Messenger’s teachings and instructions to people which will lead them to the path of salvation, those that are vesîletü’n-necât. The paper demonstrates that Süleyman Çelebi here describes both natures of the Messenger s.w.s.: his inner nature (as a Messenger) and his outer nature (his human form). It also points out the elements of tasawwuf in the text of mawlūd which characterize Süleyman Çelebi as mutasawwif. Woven by love towards God and His beloved Messenger s.w.s, this Mawlūd reaches the souls and minds of the faithful. There lies the reason for its widespread popularity.

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Ahmet Gazioğlu ve Andreas Onoufriou’nun Romanlarında “Öteki” İmajları: Kıbrıs, Milliyetçilik ve Savaş

Author(s): ŞevkI Kıralp / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 116/2023

This paper examines the images of “others” in Turkish Cypriot author Ahmet Gazioğlu’s novel War and Love in Cyprus and Greek Cypriot author Andreas Onoufriou’s novel The Native Land in a comparative perspective. Both novels focus on the war in 1974 that constituted a significant threshold for the two communities. Both novels comprise nationalist narratives. While for Gazioğlu, Greeks (particularly the coup makers) and Greek Cypriots are the “others”, for Onoufriou the “others” are Türkiye, Greek Junta, USA, UK and Greek Cypriot terrorist organizations. Onoufriou characterizes Turkish Cypriots as a friendly group constituting a part of the “people” yet emphasizes that they are a “minority”. In Gazioğlu’s novel, for Turkish Cypriots the trustworthy actor is Türkiye and Greek Cypriots are identified with the suppression that made Turkish Cypriots suffer. In the literature, there is a growing trend to analyze novels based on the image of the “other” they present. Nevertheless, the number of studies comparatively analyzing the “others” in Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot novels is not yet satisfactory. This paper aims to fill this gap. This paper utilizes documentary analysis as its main research method. It follows a qualitative, descriptive and comparative methodology.

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KAZILIK KOCA OĞLU YEGENEK BOYU ÜZERİNE HERMENEUTİK BİR TAHLİL DENEMESİ

Author(s): Fatih Keskin / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 43/2023

The main theme of the Epic of Yegenek Son of Kazılık Koca, which is jointly included in the Dresden and Vatican copies of the Book of Dede Korkut, is the struggle of the hero to set his captive father from captivity. The behavior of Yegenek, who is the hero of the narrative, is different from that of his father, Kazılık Koca, his uncle Emen, and the twenty-four Oğuz Lords he took with him as fellow travelers. Reinforcing his physical and military power with positive values such as a strategic mind, unity consciousness, trust, and belief, Yegenek succeeded at what other Oghuz lords had failed to achieve and defeated Direk Tekür, son of Arşın. Thus, Yegenek stands out as the representative of a new hero type that brings together the previous generation of heroes within the framework of their own fighting methods. In addition, Yegenek's struggle contains intense references in terms of psychoanalysis and archetypal symbolism, as it bears the signs of the conflicts experienced by the individual in the process of existence. The aim of this study is to reveal the semantic world of The Epic of Yegenek, son of Kazılık Koca, based on the explicit and implicit references in the text. Therefore, in this study, Yegenek's adventure is subjected to an interdisciplinary hermeneutic reading process by making use of the data of the fields of study such as psychology, theology, and archetypal symbolism, as well as the literature, narrative, and folklore. Yegenek's struggle is considered as a part of Oğuz's collective existence struggle within the scope of the study; on the other hand, it is evaluated as the process of discovering the unconscious area of the individual and confronting the negative features that were previously attempted to be pushed into this area by the consciousness. In addition, the dream that Yegenek saw on his way to Düzmurd Castle, and which constitutes a secondary plane of reality in the narrative, is considered as one of the important stages of his initiation and reaching psychic integrity, and is examined within this framework.

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ANADOLU SAHASI TÜRK HALK ŞİİRİNDE TURNA: DERDİÇOK ÖRNEĞİ

Author(s): Bedri Özçelik / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 43/2023

The Anatolian field of Turkish folk poetry, which was founded by the nomadicmarried Turks living in Central Asia by hunting and husbandry, and accepted as one of the cultural heritages of Turkish wisdom, is one of the literary assets that carry the material and spiritual values of the culture that survives in this geography from generation to generation and reflects the sense of beauty of the people. The nature which appears in the center of human life has influenced the formation and configuration of Turkish Folk Poetry tradition. The animals which are one of the main and natural elements of nature have been accepted as one of the most distinctive cultural dynamics of mankind since ancient times. The crane, which takes part in the animal world, is one of the bird species, and accepted as a connotation symbol in many fields of Turkish literature, has also been handled and processed as a common motif in Anatolian Turkish folk poetry. The use of crane motif as an image in Turkish folk poetry, which reflects the feelings, thoughts, and tastes of the Anatolian people and Derdiçok’s poems with crane motifs constitute the subject of this study. The aim of the study is determining the characteristics of the crane in the poems of Derdiçok, who is accepted as one of the well-known representatives of the Turkish folk poetry tradition of minstrel style and in Turkish folk poetry that emerged, developed and matured in this geography, and contributing to the field by interpreting these texts. In this study, it has been determined that the crane is discussed with its beauty, its resemblance to a lover, and the qualification of bringing news in various verse forms and types of Turkish folk poetry tradition. In addition to this, information about the life of Derdiçok, who lived in the AfşinElbistan Cultural Basin in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century, was given, and the content analysis of his poems with crane motif was made. After all, it has been seen that the crane takes place in Derdiçok's poems, with its features in Anatolian field Turkish folk poetry; at the same time the poet's didactic poems in which he gave advice to the cranes in order to be vigilant against their enemies, as well as his conversational poems in which he communicated with them were determined, and all his poems with crane motifs were analysed.

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DAMLANIN YOLCULUĞUNA FARKLI BAKIŞLAR: SEYR Ü SÜLÛK VE MONOMİT ÇERÇEVESİNDE ÂŞIK DÂİMÎ’NİN BİR ŞİİRİ

Author(s): Süleyman Fidan,Gülbeyaz AYDOĞAN / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 43/2023

The concepts of road and journey have been conceived in various ways by different branches of art. Despite this diversity, there are common motifs in many narratives about the journey. In this study, the concepts of the eternal journey of the hero, which developed within the framework of the monomyth theory put forward by the mysticism doctrine and Campbell, were chosen to be examined. By evaluating the similarities on the journey conceptions of these two concepts, Âşık Daimî's poem “I Belt on a Truth” is examined. The emergence of the Islamic faith has transformed the Sufi culture into a culture that directs the way of life, moral rules and personality of Muslims. In this process, sects began to emerge and however, Sufi rituals that differed from sect to sect were seen. The purpose of Sufism is to reach the truth by suffocating. Being a sulûk, under the leadership of a person called a murshid-i kamil, is expressed with the concept of seyr ü süluk, which is the set of rules that the Sufi volunteer, who is a Sufi volunteer, should apply on the way he aims to reach God. One of the other concepts that we come across when traveling is called Monomite theory. Campbell; Starting from the structure he called Monomite, he formulated the paths followed by the heroes and resolved the partnerships with this method. It is seen that the monomyth theory can be applied especially in the majority of works that adhere to the classical narrative. The aim of this study is to examine Âşık Dâimî's work I Believe in a Truth from two different perspectives, as a view of a devotee who navigates in Sufi culture and as a view of the hero's journey stages in Campbell's Monomyth theory. The first part of the study covers the examination of Âşık Dâimî's “I Belt on a Truth”, with the view of the devotee who watches in Sufi culture. According to this approach, the mixing of the drop with the river, finding the universe in the drop and returning to itself again shows the understanding of unity of existence. The next part covers the analysis of Âşık Dâimî's “I Belt on a Truth” from the perspective of the hero's endless journey in Campbell's Monomyth theory. According to this approach, it was considered as a devotee hero whose journey is described in the work and examined under the headings of departure-initiation-return. While preparing this study, the concepts of patrol type, understanding of Sufism and navigation in Sufism were examined. These concepts have been analyzed with the work studied. In the next stage, Campbell's Monomyth theory and its adaptation to various works were examined and combined with the work in question. As a result, there are common universal traces in the journey of initiation, whether it is a literary text hero or a dervish.

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TÜRK EDEBİYATINDA PARNASYEN ŞÂİRLERİN BESTELENMİŞ ŞİİRLERİNİN TÜRK MÛSİKÎSİNE YANSIMALARI

Author(s): Semih Okcu / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 43/2023

In this study, which examines the musical elements in line with the images most used by the Parnasian poets in Turkish literature, firstly, information about the Parnassism movement is given and information is given from general to specific about Yahya Kemal Beyatlı and Tevfik Fikret, the representatives of this movement in Turkish literature. Qualitative research method was used in the data collection process of this study, which was created by making use of the interdisciplinary structure of literary and musical arts. After this process, literature review was made and related articles, books, theses and web resources were used. In line with the analysis process of the data obtained, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı has the “sea” image most used by the parnasian movement; his poems “Dün kahkahalar yükseliyorken evinizden, Perestij, Geçmiş Yaz, Ses, Mevsimler, İstinye, Gece, Kar Mûsikîleri, Sessiz, Gemi, Şu kopan fırtınalar ve Süleymâniye’de Bayram sabahı, Dalgın Geceler, Çubuklu Gazeli,” and Tevfik Fikret's Hân-ı Yağmâ, Haluk’un Sesi, Küçük Asker and Çal Meleğim in this study, the reflection form of the poems, which were selected by the random sampling technique named "Special", on the music is discussed. By determining which tunes and by which composers the examined poems were used, the reflection form of the composed poems on the music was analyzed within the framework of composition and lyrics harmony, poet and composer mood harmony, it was aimed to gain new studies for both literature and music fields and to be a reference for interdisciplinary studies. . It has been determined that the composed works analyzed within the scope of the subject, as in the poems of the parnasian poets, are kept in the forefront of art, therefore, they have taken their place in the literature as Classical Turkish Music compositions in general. However, it was determined that the works were created correctly and in parallel with each other in terms of composition and lyrics, as well as poet and composer mood harmony.

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Spectacolul muzealizării și literaturizării lumii în societatea post/postmodernă

Author(s): Elena PRUS,Ludmila Braniște / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2021

This article discusses current issues in the evolution of museums worldwide, influenced by global phenomena. The globalization of culture, on the one hand, and the musealization of the world, on the other hand, become the plays of a spectacle of the contemporary world. The museum cultural model becomes dominant in today’s society, influencing all spheres and finding representation in the world’s literatures. Among the various approached theories, the concepts of musealization of the modelled world as a cultural spectacle, “the world as a museum”, imaginary museum, the literaturization of the museum and the musealization of literature. From this perspective, the theses of the Nobel laureates in literature Mario Vargas Llosa and Orhan Pamuk are analysed. In Pamuk’s novel The Museum of Innocence, the museum is the structuring narratological axis of the novel, its theme and compositional nucleus.

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Muhammed İkbal’in Hitâb Be Câvîd İle Mehmet Akif’in Asım Adlı Eserlerinden Hareketle Gençlere Nasihatleri

Author(s): Adnan Şimşek / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2024

Mehmet Akif Ersoy and Muhammad Iqbal are two Muslim poets who lived at the same time but in different geographies. Mehmet Akif Ersoy died in 1936 and Muhammad Iqbal died in 1938. Both of them are like-minded intellectuals who share the same anguish for the future of society. These two poets, whose hearts were on fire with the love of independence and freedom, were also the interpreters of enthusiastic souls and hearts full of faith. Another common feature of these two poets is the importance they attach to youth. Iqbal tries to be a guide for the youth in the person of his son Javid in the address entitled Hitâb be Jâvîd, which was published at the end of his work Cavidname. Hitāb be Jāwīd is a detached work of 136 couplets written in the genre of nasihatname. It is a work that is a continuation of the culture of advice, which is known with names such as siyasetname, hikmet, pendname, vasiyetname and ibretname in classical poetry tradition. Similarly, in his poem Asım in the sixth volume of Safahat, Akif endeavours to guide the young generation in the person of Asım. Asım, which is an independent poem, is a verse story written in the form of mesnevi verse. In this study, Iqbal and Akif's advice to the young generation is discussed comparatively based on their works Hitâb be Câvîd and Asım. Although the geographies they lived in were different, Akif and Iqbal, who were members of the same civilisation, generally expressed the same views. Iqbal adopted the style of classical poetry, presented his advice in this direction and drew a path based on individual values education. Akif, on the other hand, although classical in form, adopted a modern way in terms of style and method, saw the individual as a part of society and considered values education as a social-centred development.

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KLASİK TÜRK ŞAİRLERİNDE “MELÂMET GİYSİSİ”

Author(s): Kamile ÇETİN / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 23/2024

Melamet has been a doctrine that primarily embraces purifying the soul and self-condemning by disclosing one's evil deeds and concealing virtuous actions, and attaining Allah's approval in a state of purity and righteousness. Customary practices, which included ostentatious attire and engaging in some dhikrs and rituals, were disregarded as unimportant. Melamiism has become the name of an entirely simple cognition and lifestyle, distanced from all kinds of worldly pomp. Adopting this understanding, the journey that the Melamis started in Khorasan has extended to almost every facet of society. In this context, Classical Turkish poetry, which benefits from many materials about life, has also been enriched. The fact that Sufism was one of the most important sources from which the mentioned poetry tradition was nourished was also effective. The poets, like other adherents of Sufism, internalized the principles of Malamatism despite not being Melamis, and widely benefited from its terminology. Eventually, they developed personal knowledge based on Sufism and the Sufi material of the literary tradition based on the principles of Melamism, associated Malamatism with certain clothes and accessories. Consequently, rint and minstrel poets abandoned all forms of ostentation when the transition from worldly comfort to Melamet, and only wore clothes associated with Melamet. Individuals who wore such clothes were able to endure being stoned by others, being subjected to arrows of condemnation, and all kinds of difficulties, and they purified their souls from the ostentation of worldly attire. As a result of searching aba, robes, delk, shirt, cardigan, hil’at, kisvet, libâs, nemed, shawl, tac, ton were determined as the elements associated with the concept of Melamet in divans. In the article, these concepts were analyzed with Melamet principles. It was revealed which types of interests was related to each aforementioned clothing element and associated with Melamet discussed in the couplets.

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Osmanlıdan Cumhuriyet’e Kadın Romancıların ve Kadın Figürlerin Dönüşümü

Author(s): Türkân Yeşilyurt / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 119/2024

This article reveals that Ottoman women novelists, who were part of the women’s movement, left an important legacy to the Republic, but that women entered the path of real emancipation with the Republican revolutions, in the context of three novels. These are Fatma Aliye’s Hayal ve Hakikat, Halide Edip’s Vurun Kahpeye and Erendiz Atasü’s Dağın Öteki Yüzü. Fatma Aliye’s first novel is Hayal ve Hakikat, which she wrote with Ahmet Mithat. However, while Ahmet Mithat could put his own name to the novel, Fatma Aliye had to sign her name as “Bir Kadın”. In her novels, Halide Edip draws portraits of literary women who do not refrain from sacrifice for their nation, just as she plays social roles in her life. Aliye, the example of the ideal woman in Vurun Kahpeye, not only tries to enlighten her students despite all the problems of the countryside arising from ignorance and bigotry, but also does not refrain from sacrificing herself for her nation. With the achievements of the Republic, especially middle-class urban women find the opportunity to realise themselves in many fields and come to the forefront in literature. However, they belatedly realise that citizenship is necessary but not sufficient on the road to freedom. Since the culture of democracy has not developed, political powers hinder the individualisation of women. For this reason, the questioning of patriarchal mentality is realised late in literature. Even though it is late, the situation of women in the patriarchal order is questioned by women writers who were formed in the Republican revolutions. Erendiz Atasü, one of these writers, reveals the process of women’s emancipation in Dağın Öteki Yüzü.

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ПРОЗНОТО ТВОРЕШТВО НА НЕЏАТИ ЗЕКЕРИЈА (1928 1988)

Author(s): Mahmut Çelik,Ivana Koteva / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 5/2023

Nexati Zekeriya is one of the founders, especially of children's poetry and prose in the Turkish language in the Republic of North Macedonia. However, his exceptional contribution to the publishing of children's magazines (Sevinch and Tomurdzuk), of which he was the main and responsible editor from the foundation, and remained during the years when the first books for children in the Turkish language were published in the Republic of Macedonia, is also significant. In addition, Nexati Zekeriya is also significant for the affirmation of the Turkish literature and culture of the Republic of North Macedonia outside the borders of Macedonia, and above all in the former Yugoslav territories and in the Republic of Turkey. His book of short stories "Children from our street" represented the first serious breakthrough in the work of Turkish writers in the Republic of North Macedonia, not only in the Yugoslav territories, but also in the Balkans and beyond. Nexati Zekeriya's contribution to the affirmation of Macedonian poetry in the Republic of Turkey deserves special attention, and his translations of the poetry of Kocho Racin and Blaze Koneski were especially noticed. However, the place of Nexati in the field of short stories for children in the Turkish language in the Republic of North Macedonia is of exceptional importance. He was awarded the most prestigious Yugoslav award in the field of children's literature the Zmay Award for your contribution to Turkish children's literature in competition with 60 important Yugoslav children's writers.

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TURKISH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN MACEDONIA AND VALUES EDUCATION IN TOMURCUK JOURNAL

Author(s): Refide Shaini / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 5/2023

Although Turkish children’s literature in Macedonia starts with poetry, other literary genres like stories, children's plays, lullabies etc. are seen in the following years. However, the writers weren’t very successful in writing novels, despite all their efforts. Tomurcuk is a children’s journal which was published between 1957 and 2004 in Skopje. Although it was published as Sevinç and Tomurcuk for a while, then it came out as a single journal. The content of the journal which was addressed to primary school children consists of stories, comics, poems, essays, crossword puzzles etc. most of which were about the history, manners, customs, traditions and culture of Macedonian Turks. The primary objective for this was to raise awareness in the children on their own culture and their values. Besides its significant place in Macedonia Turkish children’s literature in terms of content, form and diversity of the writers, Tomurcuk also plays an effective and active role in regards to the targeted values to be taught. The main aim of this study is to establish the distinct values found in 33 issues of Tomurcuk Journals published between 1957 and 1990 to evaluate these values form the point of view of children’s literature.

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ABDÜLFETTAH RAUF’UN ŞİİRLERİNDE VATAN SANCISI - ÜSKÜP

Author(s): Seyhan Murtezan Ibrahimi / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 5/2023

Along with the literature that developed in the Balkans in every different period of history, poetry has dealt with and revealed the lives of nations stuck in limbo with all its vivid examples. Although poetry, as a literary genre, is written for aesthetic purposes, one of its main purposes is to describe the period of which it is a product and to make the poets' cries felt. With the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire from the Balkans, poetry left a great impact on the thought world of Turkish poets who remained beyond the Ottoman-Turkish border, and became the interpreter of their feelings, on issues such as lost land, religion, homeland, identity, existence. In our study, we will discuss the reflection of the concerns of the poet Abdülfettah Rauf, who was born in Skopje in 1910, in his poems, in which he treats revenge as a grieving conscience. The poet witnessed the periods when the most important political balances changed on the world history stage. Born in the last days of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, it was born during the First Balkan War and the Second World War. He was a child in the period when the magnificent civilization retreated after the Balkan War, and he fought in World War I and World War II until his death (1967). He lived and suffered deeply during the World War and Yugoslavia periods. Abdülfettah Rauf wrote his poems during the years that we can consider as a dark period in the historical development of Macedonian Turkish literature. When we look at his poems that have come to light in recent years, the subjects he is most concerned about are 'homeland'. In our analysis, we will discuss the problem of homeland that he puts on Skopje in his poems Yurdumda Ben ve Bende Yurdum, Şehîde-i Şedâ’id-i Üskübüm İçin, Vefâsız Yurda İlânı Nefret through the cities. With a comparative method, the influence of Yahya Kemal Beyatlı on these poems of Abdulfettah Rauf will be emphasized.

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