Migration in recent Turkish storytelling (2015-2022)

In this study, the reflection of the migration phenomenon, which is as old as the history of humanity, in literature has been examined by taking Turkish storytelling as the center; it has been discussed how the recent migrations, which have a great impact on the world, have been reflected in literature. In terms of the way literature deals with social problems, modern Turkish storytelling in the recent period has also turned to issues related to people, emotions and identity. The story, which has a human being at its center, has also examined how an individual copes with social problems. Fictional reality, which is woven around the city, urban life, feelings of loneliness, also has a social-oriented side. The deep connections of man with his roots and the society he lives in through migration, identity and conflict are featured in the stories. The process that started with the US-Iraq war in the 2000's continued with the Arab spring, and with the Syrian civil war Turkey has become the center of intense migration mobility. At first, the refugees who were placed in the camps began to disperse to the cities with increasing numbers. Especially after 2015, these ones, who settled in many cities of the country, began to live intertwined with society and became a part of it. It has been seen that these migrations have been discussed, selected as a topic and related in Turkish storytelling of the recent period. The stories published between the years 2015-2022 in the literary journals, determined for this purpose were read in this context and 72 stories were found to be related to the phenomenon of migration. The selected stories were classified according to their themes. A conceptual review on literature and migration has been made, the manifestation of the phenomenon of migration has been observed in the Turkish narrative tradition and the way in which the phenomenon of migration was handled in the story has been examined through the identified stories. In the study, the expansions of sociology science were used with an interdisciplinary method. By prioritizing the relations of the concepts of human, identity and relation with the phenomenon of migration, the way of the story reflects individual and social migration has been examined. Keywords: Migration, Refugee, Criticism, Identity, Story