Bir Hafıza Mekanı Olarak Uzunyayla’nın Pınarbaşı İlçesine Bağlı Abaza ve Çerkes Köyleri
Abaza and Circassian Villages of Pınarbaşı District of Uzunyayla as a Realms of Memory

Summary/Abstract: After the came from their homeland Caucasus, Uzunyayla villages hosted the ancient Caucasian culture for almost 100 years, as long as there was internal migration from the village to the city. The villages have kept the memory spaces, which have established connections with the Caucasus for many years, to remain alive, thanks to platforms like “vorşer”, “haçeş”, funerals and weddings. However, the internal migration process that started with mechanization in agriculture in the 1950s accelerated over time and today the villages have reached the discharge point. Migration from the village to the city, which takes place for different reasons such as providing a better life for children through education and dividing the land through inheritance, has led to the breaking of the large family structure, the acceleration of the process leading to the loss of language, mobile education and the loss of memory spaces. In this article, which we will try to describe the historical sites of “Çörümşek” and “Uzunyayla” under the name of “Uzunyayla” as culturally, we will try to explain the sites, sites, and photographs in the villages; we will examine the effects of internal migration on memory spaces through the questions we asked to the source people during our field studies in “Uzunyayla” villages in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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