WHAT YUSUF MAKE ODGURMIŞ TO SAY IN TURKISH IN KUTADGU BİLİG

Abstract

In Kutadgu Bilig, Odgurmış defined as awakened which means quit from physical world also represent of future and abstemius who is loner. With this character he used as a subject in studies in different disciplines. Odgurmış generally accepted as the one who abstracted from social and political events, specially in Buddhist culture. In this paper we are going to analysis him in the base of old Turkish culture and Turkish mythology and try to find position of the character in Turkish culture and Turkish ideology. Odgurmuş generally explained as a character of Buddhism or Islamic culture but we think he has features which can explained by Turkish ideology and culture. This paper try to portray the position of Odgurmış in Turkish ideology and mythology. There are parallel ways between events and heroes of Turkish legends and Odgurmış’s character. Introduction section is consideration of papers about Odgurmış. This paper is different from others which focused on Odgurmış. Researchers defined him as ostracised and isolated personality, but actually he has a knowledge to raise the government which almost fall down. In this paper going to say that Odgurmış is not multicultural, he is representation of Turkish culture and life style which create sources of Turkish ideology. Odgurmış is a product of Turkish culture and ideology. This idea going to be explained by comparison of linguistic/historical/cultural/mythological sources. The hero of multicultural Yusuf’s “Odgurmış”, bear the trace of Turkish culture and ideology and this is going to be shown by testimony of Kutadgu Bilig. The dialogue of Odgurmış in “Kutadgu Bilig” reflect Turkish culture and ideology, this situation going to be tried evaluate with the perspective of Turkish mythology.

Keywords

• kutadgu bilig
• odgurmış
• yusuf has hacib
• turkish thought
• turkish culture
• turkish mythology.