Symbolical expansion of the Köroğlu-centered tales

Public narratives, including the values of nations such as language, religion, customs, traditions, life philosophy, their attitude to life become a sign of national consciousness by forging a cultural link between past and the future.Narratives, reflecting the collective intellectual world and esprits de corps of Turkish nation, have the characteristics of a jewel that is waiting for being solved and then it will find its true value. There are cryptos on the background of the narratives that consist of the symbolical expression which represents the main value of the text. The main idea comes out by content integrity using these cryptos. Unconscious items of Turkish nation are presented by this meaning. Analysing these symbols transfer unconscious items to the real world. Eposes are one of the most important literal work keeping the symbolical meaning. Köroğlu epos, shaped with the symbolical element that concealed into the text, is a result of a common cultural memory that is told in the wide area of the Turkic world.National heroes, that name after the epos, are the idol of the nation by various aspects. The above- mentioned heroes perform the task by completing a phase which is given by tha nation. Köroğlu, as one of the heroes of the Turkish epos, completing his own individualization process and the symbols in this process are included in the scope of this study.Keywords: Köroğlu, Köroğlu tales, epos, symbol, archetype.