Children's games known between the people of the Abese region of the Republic of Chad of African and the Türkaylar

Turkish culture is to many previous years culture, whose foundations date back to very ancient years and have spread to many parts of the world for centuries. This study has attempted to determine the global reach of Turkish culture, to determine the universal spread of Turkish culture in the context of children's games, to record in which areas of the world Turkish culture is spread through cultural interaction. In the research, the Republic of Chad, an African country, and the city, formerly known as "Vara", located within the borders of this country, today called "Abeşe", were chosen as the study area. The people calling themselves "Turkays" in this region were also determined as the community of origin. The reason why this country, the region and its people are determined as a work element has been explained extensively in the introductory part of the investigation. Also, in the introductory part, information is given about the cultural historical process of the African continent, which is the research area, the Republic of Chad and the Abeşe region and the "Turkays" who live here. Weddings, parties, funerals, meals, popular songs, stories, riddles, stories, idioms, proverbs, children's games, etc., that concern folklore. It is known that there are many cultural elements. In this study, children's games were selected from these topics, and in the first part of the study, the definition and history of children's games are briefly given. In the second part of the study, there are children's games collected from the field. Based on the "data collection method" in the investigation, the information was heard from the source persons and compiled including the information of the source person. Twenty-two children's games were included in the study. Since the language of the compilation area is African French, the original versions of the games are included in the footnotes. While being translated into Turkish, names and phrases from the local dialects of some works were translated as is.