ÂŞIK PAŞA’YA GÖRE ALPLIĞIN ŞARTLARI VE AT ŞARTININ OSMANLI KORSAN GAZİ SAZ ŞAİRLERİNDEKİ DEĞİŞİMİ
THE CONDITIONS OF BEING AN “ALP” FROM ASIK PASHA’S POINT OF VIEW AND CHANGE OF THE CONDITION OF THE HORSE IN THE OTTOMAN CORSAIR GHAZI BARDS

Summary/Abstract: In this study, one of the conditions of the alp, which is included in Asik Pasha's work named Garibname, to have a horse and the adaptation of the corsair bards of the Ottoman era to this condition is discussed. In his work, Asik Pasha described the ideal warrior type, who should fight to protect the country and the people from the enemies of religion, with nine items and put a good horseback riding in the fourth place. Within the scope of the study, the horse element in the poems of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries corsair ghazi bards of the Algerian field of the Ottoman period was examined and It is aimed to reveal one of the transformations of the concept of ghazi, which has great importance for the Ottoman history, depending on the changing and developing life standards. During the analysis, the text commentary method was applied and the concepts contained in the poems were explained in terms of their relations with the topic. In addition, it has been determined that the condition of owning a horse in the Garibname was replaced by the ship in the Ottoman navy, the corsair ghazis made similarities between their ships and horses by means of various rhetoric, and through the emerging similarity, they mentioned Ali's horse Duldul, one of the leading figures of the ghaza culture. Also it has been seen that these ghazis gave names to the ships too like naming horses and one of these names was similar to name of the famous poet Koroglu's horse, Kır At. As a result, it has been concluded that when it comes to military, innovation and development of equipment made a change on everything inclueded traditions which have strict rules. Moreover, the horse that has a great importance to Turkish history, has not disappear completely and it has continued to appear in poems of ghazi bards in even big changes.

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