Abstract
ASHIK-TYPE EPIC TRADITION IN AMASYA
Turkish literature has passed a deep historical process from unknown times until today and has appealed to minds and hearts in a wide geography with the artists who use the words skillfully. Ancient artistic vocabulary created by shamans, bakshy and bards continued with ashiks and they became the unchanging aesthetic subject of the changing socio-cultural environments. The rich and well-established Turkish folk literature, which created the ashik-type cultural tradition, continued to develop by adding new values to its body. Epics are significant products of the ashik-type cultural tradition. Anatolian geography, which is one of the important parts of the Turkish world, is very rich in terms of epic-teller ashik tradition. This study investigated the contribution of Amasya province to this richness, if any, its historical, cultural infrastructure and its extent in the province. It is understood that the guild of janissaries located in the city, which had a historical mission because it was the place where the princes were growing in the Ottoman Empire, promoted the tradition of ashik-type epic tradition. It was found that Alevi-Bektashi cultures, which is an important part of the city, also fed ashik-type epic tradition It has been understood that the ashik who grew up in Amasya during the period when epic writing culture environment appeared has written, has contributed to this new culture environment with the epics they produced. The living representatives of the written culture period epic have identified and the information obtained from them about the structure of the tradition has recorded in the study.
Keywords
Amasya, ashik-type poetry tradition, ashik poetrys, ashik the epics.