Türük Uluslararası Dil, Edebiyat ve Halkbilimi Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Authors: Nevzat Özkan

The Karamans, who lived in different parts of Anatolia, primarily in the Central Anatolia, Trabzon-west of Firat-Taurus-Silifke line, especially in Kayseri, Nevsehir, Konya, Burdur, Isparta, Antalya regionsand then in Izmir and Istanbul where two largest cities in the Black Sea coast and, till 1924 and who immigrated to Greece after that, used Turkish in their daily life and in most parts of their written culture and literary activities. Born in Greece even today, which is 50 years of age Karamans, with Central Anatolia mouth will continue to speak Turkish. For example, from Aksaray, Güzelyurt (Gelveri) district, Karamans who immigrated in 1924, in August 1998, when they come here again can spoke with old fellow with the Central Anatolian mouth. Karaman literature, largely base on the works translated from Greek, and is intended for religious subjects. If non-religious literature, Ahmet Mithat Efendi’s with a few work published in the language of Karaman, are broadcasts in the Karaman language of works of oral literature such as Koroglu, Aşık Garip, Sah Ismail and Nasreddin Hoca. Recently, a few novels have been translated from French. Although the Turkish language they use shows some variations according to the districts they lived and the area of usage, it is seen that the Karaman’s texts which bear features of dialects are not so much different from Anatolian dialects in terms of phonetic and morphological characteristics. This study aims to compare the Karaman Turkish dialect and Central Anatolain dialects in terms of their vowel systems. Key Words: Karaman Turkish, dialect, phonetics, wovels.

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Authors: Rahimjon Yusupov

The article explains the relevance of the topic, defines goals, objectives of historical demography. The work paper is devoted studying the problems of historiography of historical demography in Uzbekistan. And also, on a wide range of literature and sources are studied the problems of demographic processes. In the work researched the theoretical and methodological foundations of the studying demographic processes of the second half of the XX. -th and beginning of the XXI. - th century. The author briefly illustrates the demographic development in terms of historiography review, shows the sources of social - demographic groups and analyzes the historical problems of demographic processes. In conclusion, are summarized the obtained results and formed recommendations of historiography review about improving the methods of studying of demographic processes in Uzbekistan. In general, the article answers common questions about the subject and the problems of historical demography as a separate science in the system of historical knowledge. Key Words: Uzbekistan, Population, History, Demography

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Authors: R.Kahriman, A.Dağtaş, E.Çapoğlu, Z.Ateşal

There is a huge request of learning Turkish language as a foreign language day by day. This is the reason for being numerous researches about teaching Turkish as a foreign language. These researches are important to determine vacuity about the scope for researchers. The objectives of this research are to fill the vacuity about the scope and to pave the way for new researches by submitting conducted studies as a whole about teaching Turkish to foreign people. This article, tried to determine the studies related to teaching Turkish as a foreign language (books, article, thesis, symposium, seminar, conference declaration). In this context, 186 books, 155 articles, 139 master’s thesis and 35 doctoral thesis including 174 thesis, 229 different kinds of seminar, congress and symposium paper have been determined. The books are listed under two different headings, as native books along with sets. Articles are listed in an alphabetical order, thesis are listed under two sub-headings as master’s and doctoral thesis. The declarations of symposiums, seminars and conferences are listed according to the previous symposiums, seminars and conferences. A prospective research about Turkish as a second language is probably going to be have a wider scope than todays’. Some studies on virtual environment (like video or audio file, web site etc.) might also be added to this research. Nonetheless, this is a facility for the researchers and also foreign people who want to learn Turkish language via virtual environment on account of access to resources. Key Words: Teaching Turkish to foreign people, Turkish as a foreign language, teaching language, teaching Turkish, bibliography.

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Authors: Nedim Bakırcı, Hüseyin Kürşat Türkan

Ahmet Yesevi was the founder of the first sect in the history of Turks. Ahmet Yesevi sent his disciples to Anatolia and those disciples became the spiritual architects of Anatolia. The number of the disciples is said to have been ninety nine thousand by the people of Anatolia. Those disciples are also called Khorasan Erens (Saint). Each disciples settled in a different place in Anatolia and they established islamic monestaries and dervish lodges in their places. Just not confined to Anatolia, the Balkans, many dervish lodges were built. Those mystical establishments (islamic monastry and dervish lodge) and their administrators (sheikh and founders) had important roles not only in religious, cultural and social lifes but also in regulating political and economical lifes, in expanding political boundaries, in managing the conquered lands and in the process of their developments. Hadji Bektashi Sect has been undoubtedly the most important sect in Anatolia. Pir Evi (The house of the founder-father) in Hacı bektaş, a small town in the middle of Anatolia has been the main center of Alewi Bektashi Monestries, which spread in all Anatolia, Balkans and partly Egypt and Neareast Countries. The more fans who Balkans sect Bektashi, Halveti and Mevlevi. There are many dervish lodges in the Balkans due to the three sects. Here in this paper will focus on the role and importance of the dervish lodges in Balkans. Key Words: Dervish Lodge, Islamic Monastries, Islamic Sect, Ahmet Yesevi, Khorasan Erens, Balkans.

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Authors: Halil İbrahim Şahin

There is also a tradition of kamlık/shamanism among the factors that determine the perception of universe, man, life, death, the future or treatment. This effect is not the same level of all the Turkish tribes. Turkish tribes in Siberia (Yakut, Altai, Tıva, Shor, and Khakassia) kam / shaman cult is the more powerful and Turks in Central and Western Asia kamlık / Shamanism practices and beliefs of the various names and forms is kept alive. Turkmen’s, Turkish tribes of Central Asia, this effect can be seen in their life. The article dealt with "Shaman od", used by shamans in rituals fever, "Kustdepti" refers to the shaman dances. Types, called "zikirci" today's Turkmenistan use shaman fire used by shamans to contact the spirits in order to take advantage of the extraordinary powers of "Hızır", just as shamans to concentrate and go into a trance use "küştdepti". "Shaman od" and "Küştdepti" takes place nevruz celebrations and weddings in the Turkmenistan prove that the shaman word is still used today among the Turks, maintains the function of some of the elements, but some elements has evolved into art form. Key words: Turkmenistan, shamanism, kamlık, shaman fire, küştdepti.

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Authors: Erol Eroğlu, Yavuz Köktan

Sakarya is very rich in traditional arts and crafts. As a result of the dominance of modern technology, such crafts as broom making, wood carving, weaving, knitting, basketry and coppersmith which were common in the past, have come to the brink of extinction. Broom making was a common occupation in the past. Especially in 1957, it gained more and more importance with the activation of broom stock market. Today, broom production has decreased due to the developing technology but it still maintain its place in married girls dowry items. Broom making which is one of the traditional crafts compose the subject of the study. It has been tried to provide information about the materials used in the making of broom, production steps, raw material resources that used, current and past status of the craft. The data that we obtained as a result of field research in Sakarya, chosen as sample, forms the framework of our study. In this study, scanning model was applied. This research formed of two parts, theoretical and practical. In the first stage, the theoretical framework of the subject was established by literature scanning on the subject. In the second stage, field study was carried out in accordance with the researh’s aim. Observation and interview techniques were used during the field study. Key Words: Broom Making, Sakarya, Traditional Crafts, Craft, Broom.

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Authors: Şaban Doğan, Uluhan Özalan

It is known that some bound morphemes are similar even the same in almost all historical and modern Turkish dialects. To illustrate, copula form which come from er- can be seen nearly in all historical and modern Turkish dialects. However, it can be seen that some bound morphemes are specific to a dialect. An example of this is the usage of tetir/titir morpheme as a copula in Old Uighur. For the present study, firstly thirty-five Old Uighur works were scanned and examples of its usage which can be regarded as copulas are collected. Afterwards the data were classified according to their properties, and evaluated with respect to the content of the texts. In the conclusion chapter the available data were judged. The aim of the study is to draw attention to the morpheme which cannot be seen in other dialects and to give some information on its usage in Old Uighur texts. In this sense, some views as to why it does not found in other dialects were expressed. Key Words: Old Uighur, bound morpheme, copula, tetir/titir