KLASİK TÜRK EDEBİYATI’NDA MEMURİYET YOLCULUKLARI
OFFICIALDOM JOURNEYS IN THE CLASSICAL TURKISH LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: In Classical Turkish Literature, there are Works, which mentioned about the journeys (such as military expedition, exile, relocating for work etc.) of poets and the cities they visited. Travelogues (seyahatnameler), ambassadorial accounts (sefaretnameler) and adventure books (sergüzeştnameler) can be given as examples of works about travel. In addition, there are poems that talk about journeys in divans or in some parts of masnavis. In Za’ifî’s Kitâb-ı Sergüzeşt-i Za’ifî, Bursalı Beliğ’s Sergüzeşt-nâme-i Fakîr be-‘Azîmet-i Tokat, Enderunlu Fâzıl’s and Trabzonlu Hazinedar-zâde Âgah Osman’s Dîvân, are mentioned about the journeys that the poets due to their jobs in goverment (such as civil servant). Za’ifî, who is a mudarris poet went from Sivas to Diyarbakır for advance in his career. Bursalı Beliğ went from Bursa to Tokat for becoming a qadi. Enderunlu Fâzıl went to Erzurum, Georgia and Ganja as an inspector of the Ottoman mines. Trabzonlu Hazinedar-zâde Âgah Osman went Ankara to Van as a gendarmerie commander. The poets described the people, situations and events that they experienced during their journeys in their poems in detail. The poets reached their new places of duty by traveling with various troubles; such as adverse weather conditions, couldn't finding an inn to stay or staying in an inn with uncomfortably conditions, running out of money on the journey, couldn’t feeling safety on the roads etc. In the study, it is aimed to understand the difficulties of traveling in that period (XVIth century-XIXth century) by examining the couplets in question.

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