Özer ŞENÖDEYİCİ

Scanning of cönks that are important works which is written oral literature outcomes will help to discover lots of work of literature. In this work with this wievpoint we will examine epics about Ottoman-Russian wars that exist in the cönk collection of Naitonal Library Manuscripts. We will determine the historical events that epics witness and try to show that how the owners of epics participated in war and how he was impressed from war. It’s also important as a historical data that how reacted the Russian emperyalism that is one of major problem of Ottoman Empire in XVIIIth and XIXth century in Turkish country’s heart. In the war that is participated poets demand assistance from a spritual leader what if the real war reason was; and they throw down the gage to enemy, their invitation for “gaza” exist in these epics. For that reason these epics must be considered as samples of “Turkish War Literature”. In this work five Muscovite epics which discover by us will be published and studied.

Key Words: cönk, war literature, Ottoman-Russian wars, epicjihad, âşık literature