Balkan migration folklore: Example of Ankara province

Migration; Movement of individuals or communities from one country to another from one settlement to another due to economic, social, political reasons is moving, migration, immigration. Turks settled in many regions in the historical process and migrated from many regions. Turks built settlements in the regions they migrated to and created new cultural centers. During the migration process, while the societies maintain their culture, they tend to adopt the cultures of the region they settled in during the integration process in the new settlement they migrated. The Balkan peninsula is one of the geographies where Turkish-Islamic culture has existed from past to present. Turks in the Balkan Peninsula; He lives in countries such as North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Greece, Western Thrace and Albania. The presence of Turks in the Balkan peninsula is examined in three periods.These; Turkish Presence before the Ottoman Empire, Turkish Presence in the Ottoman Period, and Turkish Presence after the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish presence in the Balkans started to be reduced gradually with the 93 War (1877-1878). In different periods in the historical process (1912, 1915, 1923, 1950-60, 1989) Turks emigrated or were forced to migrate. Starting migration to the Balkan peninsula and Anatolia during the Ottoman Empire, it has continued during the period of the Republic of Turkey. Among the cities that migrated to Anatolia from the Balkans, cities such as Edirne, Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bursa, Balıkesir, and Çanakkale come first. In our study, the migration of the Muslims from the Balkan peninsula to Ankara in the Turkish and Turkish culture circle will be examined.In this context, his doctoral dissertation titled Balkan Migration Folklore: The Case of Ankara Province is about the folklore of people who migrated to Ankara from Balkan countries (North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Bosnia Herzegovina, Romania, Albania) since 1923. Cultures migrate as a result of the phenomenon of migration. Societies migrate their folklore / oral histories with them during the migration process. The folklore emerging or carried as a result of the migration is called "migration folklore".The scope of the concept of migration folklore, on the other hand, includes the migration stories in the migrant folklore of the source people subject to our research, the physical and historical environment of the places where they settled and live, their human condition and economic structure, social structure, customs and customs orders, belief structures, architecture, handicrafts, nutrition and cleaning features, dressing-dressing-decoration features, ceremonies (birth, death, marriage, circumcision, military service, etc.), medicine, folk dance, folk music, traditional sports and entertainment, oral literatures (dialects, nicknames, proverbs and idioms, riddle, rhyme, clap and kargış, mâni, türkü, epic, lament, legend, menkabe, memorate). This study is a field study. Folklore / Folklore Information to be obtained from resource persons will be carried out face-to-face or digitally, in accordance with the Kovid-19 rules, using the methods of Turkish folklore research methods such as interview (interview), observation (observation).In cases where these methods are not possible, survey questions based on Turkish folklore staff will be used. In this study, the theoretical framework of the concept of migration folklore will be tried to be drawn. In this context, the appropriate Migration Theories used in the sociology discipline will be used in this study. Within the scope of migration folklore; immigration, immigrant, refugee, immigrant, immigrant, cultural integration, types of migration, identity etc. concepts will be explained. In this study, resource persons will be selected from different age and gender groups and the cultural data obtained will be evaluated in the context of intergenerationalism. The aim of this thesis is to compile and record the folklore / folklore elements of the Turks and Muslims who migrated / settled / lived in Ankara from the Balkan peninsula, and archive them with a scientific point of view.