Türk Destanlarındaki Aile Algısı Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme
An Evaluation on the Family Perception in the Turkish Epics

Summary/Abstract: Heroes generally fight in order to protect family members or establish a new family in Turkish epics. In this regard family is a very important institution for the epics. This article includes some detection and evaluations about family perception of Turkish epics, in context of individual‐family and family community relations. This article focus on social life in Turkish epics and family's place in this life, stages of the family enterprise, hero's struggles for the family, characteristics of family members and relationship between family members. As a result of investigation have been concluded that there is a strong family structure in Turkish epics, throughout their life epic heroes fight to establish and maintain this structure and a strong foundation of social structure is based on family which it has been established on the basis of "Tore", in Turkish epics.

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