On a Harput-based Cönk (Review-text)

Folklore has emerged from the depths of history to this day as a branch of science that sheds light on culture. The most important materials used in carrying out this task are oral and written sources. Cönkler is also the head of the written sources. Cönkler is the most important resource carrying cultural items from yesterday to today with its enormous accumulation. In this sense, cönkler on the one hand sheds light on folk literature, on the other hand, the language characteristics of the period in which it was written and sources the determination of cultural activities. In addition to these, meteorological events, births and deaths are like a light that concerns human life and illuminates the period in which it was written. Cönkler contains many socio-cultural elements such as prayer, sermon, magic, folk medicine, folk Veterinary as well as literary examples such as folk literature, minstrel literature and tekke-sufi literature. In order to recognize and define the literary and cultural values of the past, cönkler should be well analyzed. In addition to folk literature products, Divân literature products are included in the Cönklerde. The elements of folk literature and folklore examples are found in abundance in cönkte. It is useful for the literature of hal to read and remove the features of the mouth and language. In order to accurately determine the course of development of Turkish literature, the cönkler, which we can call a reference source for folk literature, are works worth working on. In Harput, we tried to examine the customs obtained from a person who was a tradesman and also an antiquarian. While studying the customs, we first made it understandable by translating it from Ottoman to modern-day Turkish. In the next stage, we classified the poems in the menu and examined them in terms of shape and content. In the first part of our study we explained the terms cönk and mecmua. After giving information about the characteristics of the customs, we talked about the importance of the customs in our culture and history. In the second part of our study, we classified them in terms of literary genres and tried to examine them from the perspective of folk literature. In the third chapter, we tried to give the original text.