Folklorist
(b. 4 March 1948, Tekirdağ). He attended Tekirdağ İnönü Primary School (1959),
Namık Kemal High School (1966), Edirne Teacher Training School for Boys (1966).
He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of
Turkish Language and Literature (1971). His bachelor’s degree thesis: Tekirdağ ve Balkan Göçmenleri Ağız
İncelemesi (Examination of the Accents of Tekirdağ and Balkan Immigrants).
His doctorate thesis: Tekirdağ Seyirlik
Köy Oyunlarından Cemal Ritüeli ve Balkanlardaki Varyantları (Cemal Ritual
from Tekirdağ’s Open Theatrical Village Plays and Its Versions in the Balkans,
1988). His associate Professorship thesis: “Günümüzde
Adana Aşıklık Geleneği ve Aşık
Fayman” (The Tradition of Minstrelsy in Adana Today and Aşık Fayman). He
worked as a literature teacher in high schools in Tekirdağ and as instructor in
Tekirdağ Institute of Education. He granted his doctorate in Pristine
University, Department of Eastern Language where he gave lectures as a Turkish
Language instructor in 1984-87.
After returning to Turkey, he
worked as lecturer in Trakya University and after
He
participated in international and domestic congresses and symposiums in Turkey
and abroad and presented forty five communiqués. His articles about fifty were
published in various reviews. He received the Folklore Research Institution
Service to Turkish Folklore Award in 1996, İçel
Folklor Review Service to Folklore of İçel Award and in 2000 Motif Folklor Review Service to Folklore
Year 2000 Award.
His
first collections about regional folklore were published in the newspaper Yeni İnan (Tekirdağ) and in the reviews Halk Kültürü, Türk Folkloru, Türk
Folklorundan Derlemeler, Folklor-Edebiyat, etc. His articles were published
in the reviews Folklore Doğru, Türk
Folkloru Araştırmaları, Türk Folkloru, Millî Folklor Dergisi, İçel Kültürü,
Anayurttan Atayurda, Türk Dünyası, Türk Dünyası İncelemeleri, Folklor /
Edebiyat, Türk Studies Halk Kültürü Araştırmaları, Türk Kültürü, Folklor
Halkbilim Dergisi, Journal of Turkish and Tekirdağ Halk Kültürü Araştırmaları from 1976. He received the
Folklore Research Institution Service to Turkish Folklore Award with his
studies in 1996.
WORKS:
Tekirdağ Folklor Araştırması
(Folkloric Research in Tekirdağ, 1978), Tekirdağ
Folklorundan Örnekler (Examples of
Tekirdağ Folklore, 1983), Tekirdağ Halk
Oyunları Araştırması (Research on Folklore of Tekirdağ, 1992), Tekirdağ Çocuk Oyunları Araştırması
(Research on Children Plays of Tekirdağ, 1992), Tekirdağ Seyirlik Köy
Oyunlarından Cemal Ritüeli ve
Balkanlardaki Varyantları (Cemal Ritual from Tekirdağ’s Open Theatrical
Village Plays and Its Versions in Balkans, 1993), Adana Mutfak Kültürü ve Adana Yemekleri
(The Kitchen Culture in Adana and Adana Meals, 1998), Adana Halk Kültürü Araştırmaları I (Research on Folkloric Culture
of Adana 1, 2000), Adana Köprübaşı
(Adana, Köprübaşı with M. Sabri Koz, 2000), Aşıklık
Geleneği ve Aşık Edebiyatı (The Tradition and Literature of Minstrelsy,
2001), Dini Tasavvufi Halk Edebiyatı
(The Religious and Sufist Folk Literature, 2002).