TURKISH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN MACEDONIA AND VALUES EDUCATION IN TOMURCUK JOURNAL
TURKISH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN MACEDONIA AND VALUES EDUCATION IN TOMURCUK JOURNAL

Summary/Abstract: Although Turkish children’s literature in Macedonia starts with poetry, other literary genres like stories, children's plays, lullabies etc. are seen in the following years. However, the writers weren’t very successful in writing novels, despite all their efforts. Tomurcuk is a children’s journal which was published between 1957 and 2004 in Skopje. Although it was published as Sevinç and Tomurcuk for a while, then it came out as a single journal. The content of the journal which was addressed to primary school children consists of stories, comics, poems, essays, crossword puzzles etc. most of which were about the history, manners, customs, traditions and culture of Macedonian Turks. The primary objective for this was to raise awareness in the children on their own culture and their values. Besides its significant place in Macedonia Turkish children’s literature in terms of content, form and diversity of the writers, Tomurcuk also plays an effective and active role in regards to the targeted values to be taught. The main aim of this study is to establish the distinct values found in 33 issues of Tomurcuk Journals published between 1957 and 1990 to evaluate these values form the point of view of children’s literature.

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