TÜRK KÜLTÜRÜNDE DÜŞMAN İMGESİ BAĞLAMINDA KUTADGU BİLİG ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME
AN EXAMINATION ON KUTADGU BILIG IN THE CONTEXT OF ENEMY IMAGE IN TURKISH CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: Kutadgu Bilig, one of the first written works and rhetorical sources of Turkish culture, conveys truth, good and beauty through various symbolic personalities. In this regard, the author of Qutadgu Bilig uses symbolic contacts to convey the order that he wants to see in the state system and the structure of society. He also creates patterns for defining concepts such as good, bad, beautiful, ugly, right, wrong. The important thing that draws attention to the patterns in question is the image of the enemy. Type studies are frequently performed in oral and written products that form the memory of Turkish culture. In these studies, which usually focus on positive types, the characteristics of negative and bad types, which are complementary and opposite to each other, are superficially passed on. In this contex the enemy flat character in Qutadgu Bilig and the features of this character is determined with the use of the sampling method. A detailed dicsussion based on the chosen samples of the characteristics constituting the enemy is made. The images in question have been compared to the enemy type previously discussed in the oral and written works of folklore, and they have revealed similar and different points. The general characteristics of the enemy type, its portrayal in literary works, the position of the enemy type in the ecology of Turkish culture, have been discussed with movements of many literary types ranging from myth-epic, epic-folk stories, folk stories-anonymous genres.

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