Buruklu Âşik Kul Mustafa the life-poems-bickering-folk tales

In this study, the life, poems, bickering, folk tales of Buruklu Âşık Kul Mustafa,who is one of the strongest representatives of Adana?s Tradition of Minstrelsy, werecompiled , examined and Âşık Kul Mustafa?s place in the tradition was tried to bedetermined.In the fist section, Adana?s Tradition of Minstrelsy and the development process ofthe tradition were given. İn the second section, information concerning Âşık Kul Mustafa?sidentity, family,education, sources, for earning a living were given, then in the third section,Kul Mustafa?s minstrelsy was examined. The way he had started his minstrelsy,instrumentaloral environment, master-apprentice relation, dream-wine-nickname, hismastership, his teaching, his recognition by the other minstrels and the awards he wasgranted and the articles written about him, the newspapers, journals, books etc. in which hispoems were gathered under the narration titles; in the sixth section the minstrel?s poemswere examined regarding their content which were grouped in two main groups asmaterialistic love and social poems, and the religi-sufistic poems.After the conclusion section, Buruklu Âşık Kul Mustafa?s poem texts, the generalindex of the poems, samples of bickering and folktale samples were given , then, somewords and expressions in the poems were given in the dictionary, which was formed at theend of the study. The study is completed by the bibliography section.Buruklu Âşık Kul Mustafa?s opinion about the tradition and to what extend thetradition was reflected were examined in detail and Buruklu Âşık Kul Mustafa?s place inthe tradition was tried to be determined.Keywords : Adana?s Tradition of Minstrelsy, Buruklu Âşık Kul Mustafa, Poem,Bickering, Folk Tale.