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A history of Turkish Literature can be divided into 3 periods, reflecting a history of Turkish civilization when follows: a time as much as a adoption of Islam, a Islamic time & a cycle under american influence. Literature Prior the Adoption of Islam
Turkish literature was a joint product of the Turkish clans and was mostly unwritten. A oldest known examples of Turkish writings get on obelisks dating from a late 7th and early 8th centuries. A Orhun monumental inscriptions written in 720 for Tonyukuk, in 732 for Kültigin and in 735 for Bilge Kagan are masterpieces of Turkish literature with their subject matter & hone style. Turkish epics dating from victims days include a Yaratılış, Saka, Oguz-Kagan, Göktürk, Uyghur and Manas. A Book of Dede Korkut, put down around writing in the 14th century, is an extremely valuable act that preserves a memory of that larger-than-life era within beautiful language.

Literature After the Adoption of Islam
Below Turkish migrations into Anatolia in the wake of the Malazgirt victory in 1071, the establishment of various Anatolian beyliks and the eventual institution of the Seljuk and Ottoman Empires set a scene for Turkish literature to prepare along deuce distinct lines, by owning Divan literature or even definitive literature drawing its inspiration from either a Arabic and Persian languages and Turkish folk literature however remaining deeply rooted inside Central Asian traditions.

Divan poets did not keep close at hand independent philosophies, it were content to express a equivalent ideas inside different ways. A magnificence of the poet come from either his art around locating original & beautiful forms of expression. At the start according to 2 foreign literary traditions, Arab & Persian, literature step by step stopped existence just imitative & took in Ottoman national characteristics.

To a certain extent, a Turkish folk literature which has survived till my day, reflects the influence of Islam & a fresh modus vivendi and form of the traditional literature of Central Asia when the adoption of Islam. Turkish folk literature comprised anon. works of bard verse form & Tekke (mystical religious retreats) literature. Yunus Emre world health organization sleep in the 2nd half of the 13th and early 14th centuries wwhen an epoch making poet and sufi (mystic philosopher) practiced altogether iii areas of folk literature also as divan poetry.

Introduction to Dede Korkut
Article by H. B. Paksoy, followed by M. Dadashzade's discussion on the ethnographic information in the Dede Korkut dastan.

The Book Of Dede Korkut
Translation of the Turkish epic.

Orhan Pamuk Home Page
Brief biography and bibliography of Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, including links to book reviews.

Turkish Language and Literature
Brief overview from the Embassy of Turkey.

Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative
Includes tales and proverbs.

Contemporary Turkish Literature
Search engine containing a carefully chosen selection of Turkish literature.

The Bald Boy and the Most Beautiful Girl in the World
An archive concerning the history to the oral Turkinsh narrative. A 177 page document in PDF format, by H.B. Paksoy.


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