Kurban (sacrifice) tradition in Western Thracian Turks

This article is prepared within 04-DPT-007 the Project of Preparing Museum and Archive on Folk Music Instruments, Folk Dances, Traditional Clothes and Folk Music in Anatolia and the Balkans started with the research of Ege University State Turkish Music Conservatory, Turkish Folk Dance Department in Macedonia on 18 April 2004.In the Greece trip within the project, on-site monitoring works have been conducted in the villages where Western Thracian Turks that are taken under research live in Komotini and Xanthi and as a result of these works it is seen that traditions that can be expressed as the facts of cultural remnants from past to present that have still maintained through cultural sanctions have maintained even with different applications.One of the traditions of Western Thracian Turks, Kurban (Sacrifice) Tradition attracts attention as a tradition reflects acting collectively and union of forces and a tradition based on cooperation. In this article, this tradition that has still continued to maintain is going to be handled.