Türk Atasözlerinde Çatişma Nedenleri
Causes of Conflicts in Turkish Proverbs

Summary/Abstract: The main objective of this study is to analyze the causes of conflicts in Turkish culture through Turkish proverbs. In this regard classic proverb study has been done in this study. At the end of the study, it was first reached the conclusion that conflict in Turkish culture is perceived as a natural process. Such that; conflict is considered necessary for creative thinking production and problem solving. Once again, in Turkish culture it was seen the situations that create problems are believed clearly obvious. It was found the dominant perception that when precautions are not taken, especially small and unimportant conflicts will lead to bigger problems. 7 general causes of conflicts have been found in Turkish proverbs. They can be named as social sensitivity issues, distributional justice, interpersonal relationships, personality, communication, reactions to previous conflicts and power balance. Each causes of conflict heading have been discussed in the light of literature. First of all, in Turkish culture, it was found that inattention to social sensibility about religious, moral, family values was perceived as basic reason of conflicts. Also, injustice in sharing resources is another reason that causes conflicts. On the other hand, interpersonal relations are emerging as general title among conflict reasons; plenty of situations like negligence in relationships, power imbalances, end of common interests are discussed under this heading. Furthermore, it was underlined that personality traits like disbelief, aggression, intenseness; opposite personality traits of each other or similar personality traits of each other in the negative meaning in relation are especially seen as reason of conflict. In addition, people’s mode of communication, the language used and third parties misleads are refers to another conflict reason major title as communication. It has been found that the cultural properties of Turkish proverbs about conflicts consistent with the characteristics of being power distant and collective culture like the results of Turkey’s national culture studies. In this study it has been also focused on the causes of conflicts in relation to advice given by the Turkish proverbs. Finally, in some cases the criticism have been carried out as causes of conflicts in the Turkish proverbs.

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