Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

Yazarlar: Chilal MOLLA ACHMET

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Western Thrace,Western Thrace Muslim Turkish Minority,Hıdırellez İn Western Thrace,Folk Tales Sung İn Hıdırellez

Özet: Today Western Thrace is located in the North East of Greece. Western Thrace Muslim Turkish Minority is an essential Turkish community that has been kept out of population exchange and left in Greece with the Treaty of Lausanne in 24th July 1923. In this study, the folk songs sung in Hıdιrellez festival in city of Komotini in Western Thrace are discussed. One day before Hıdırellez in Komotini, the young girls, leave something valuable of themselves in a pot filled with water then they put the pot under a rose tree. A rug is placed on the pot and the “rag doll” which sewn by the girls is placed on the pot covered with rug. On the morning of Hıdιrellez day, the older girl takes the doll from the pot and uncovers the rug. The first girl who first opens the pot tells the first folk song, reaches into the pot and removes an object from the water. Tells the object’s owner, “Let's start the folk song, Stone the devil, Whoever this folk tale belongs, Let’s start her wedding” and gives her turn to the owner of the object. They tell folk songs until the objects in the pot are finished. This study demonstrates that folk songs have important places in Turkish culture. Because they are not only four-lined poems, in fact, they are literary poems that reveal the feelings, lives of the people in that region. We think that this study will contribute to Turkish culture.

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