Examination of Literary Products of Bulgarian Turks in Old Script Turkish Periodicals
Project no. 22376 · Status: Kapanmış · 2021
Summary
<p>The first examples of contemporary literature created by Bulgarian Turks appear in Turkish literature books with Arabic letters and Turkish periodicals published in printing houses operating in the region after 1878. Some literary works from this period have survived to the present day, but it has not been possible to identify and examine the various literary genres that appeared in the periodicals of the same period. Within the scope of this project, publications such as "Balkan, Uhuvvet, Dostluk, Tuna, Açık Söz, Altın Kalem, Yoldaş, Deliorman, Bulgaristan Türk Muallimler Mecmuası, Deliorman", which stand out among the old scripted Turkish periodicals of Bulgarian Turks with their publication times and effectiveness, and our scans during the research process. The identification and general evaluation of literary writings included in other possible publications to be included in the study will be made. In this way, some of the literary works remaining in periodicals belonging to the least known phase of contemporary Turkish literature in the region will be brought to the literature, and poets and writers whose activities in the field in question are not known enough will be identified. Some of the periodicals that were deemed useful to scan within the scope of the project were transferred to the digital platform. Periodicals that do not have a digital format and need to be accessed directly are planned to be obtained from various libraries in Turkey and Bulgaria. Literary works available digitally and in periodicals to be obtained from libraries by us will be given in Latin alphabet and a systematic index will be prepared in this field. A thematic and formal literary review will be conducted on the obtained literary material. The project will be completed with a general evaluation analyzing the literary environment of the period.</p>