Erdoğan ALTINKAYNAK
Aşık Şeref Taşlıova, one of the significant contemporary minstrels in the North Anatolian mistreling tradition, coming from the branch of Aşık Şenlik. There are a lot of stories which were classified by him. The numbers of stories known by him are quite a lot. In this study the birth of love in the stories classified by Aşık Şeref Taşlıova from the book, which name is “Aşık Şeref Taşlıova’dan Derlenen Halk Hikayeleri/Collected Folktales from Aşık Şeref Taşlıova”, edited by Fikret Türkmen, M. Mete Taşlıova and Nail Tan, will be evaluated.
Key Words: Şeref Taşlıova, Mistrel, Story, Love, Emergence of Love, Basis of Narration.