Poet Ahmet Çıtak’s Epics of Our Prime Minister and Makarios in the Context of the Relationship Between Literature and History
From the past to the present, minstrels and poets have expressed individual issues such as love, longing, affection, expatriation, as well as social issues such as flood, earthquake, famine, war and migration through their works. These artists, who are the spokespersons of the people, have undertake...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Süleyman Fidan
2025-05-01
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| Series: | Uluslararası Halkbilimi Araştırmaları Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/uhad/issue/92076/1599485 |
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| Summary: | From the past to the present, minstrels and poets have expressed individual issues such as love, longing, affection, expatriation, as well as social issues such as flood, earthquake, famine, war and migration through their works. These artists, who are the spokespersons of the people, have undertaken various missions such as leading the society in which they live and conveying the developments related to any event to the public. Ahmet Çıtak, who was born in Elbistan district of Kahramanmaraş province, is one of the poets who expresses individual and social issues through his works and who can sing poetry extemporaneously. Before the “1974 Cyprus Peace Operation”, various deep pains experienced by the Turkish Cypriots are among the social issues in the works of Poet Ahmet Çıtak. The aim of the article is to draw attention to the fact that in a period when mass media was not widespread in the context of oral history, minstrels and poets fulfilled the task of collecting and disseminating information about important developments that occurred before the “1974 Cyprus Peace Operation”. Our study is limited to the works of poet Çıtak's Our Prime Minister and Makaryos. The poet Çıtak's work Our Prime Minister is about the plane crash of Adnan Menderes, the prime minister of the period, on his way to England for Cyprus negotiations and what happened afterwards. In Makaryos, various oppressions and massacres committed by the Greeks against the Turks living in Cyprus and the events leading up to the “1974 Cyprus Peace Operation” are discussed. When the poems in question are analyzed, it will be seen that they cannot be handled independently of the historical background. Literature and History are two disciplines that interact with each other. In this context Çıtak, in the epics in question, passed the historical reality through the filter of art, both informed the public and became a leader of opinion about the attitude to be taken on the issues that deeply affect the whole society. |
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| ISSN: | 2667-4173 |