Kırgızlar’ın Yönetim Sistemleri ve Sosyal Yapılarının Manas Destanındaki İzdüşümleri
Reflections of the Management Systems and Social Structure of Kyrgyz in the Manas Epic

Summary/Abstract: The epic of Manas is a cultural value that brings the historical events of the Kyrgyz from past to present within the scope of literary measures. The epics, which are the reflection of a people's spirituality, historical and aesthetic existence in the literary field within the framework of national feelings, have an important place in the common values of national culture and history. In this context, Türk Manas Epic ”which can be defined as the poetic expression of Kyrgyz history has a special place as one of the values which will bring the whole Turkish world together in the same roots. The Epic of Manas is like a Kyrgyz magazine which tells the ways of the life and customs of the Kyrgyz, their feelings and thoughts, their history, their struggle against external enemies, their world views, their social and spiritual world, their morality and religion. Cakıp, the father of Manas, who ruled the Kyrgyz people as a khan, discusses the future generations of Manas, son of Manas Semetay and his son Seyitek, the wars between the Kamuk-Chinese khans such as Esenkan, Konurbay and Chon Kete, and the attempts of indepence of the Kyrgyz. The aim of this study is to examine the social structure of the Kyrgyz as described in the epic, and to establish a judiciary about their management systems, rights and law issues and their social strata in the Middle Ages.

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