FOLK TALES FROM THE PEN OF Z YA G KALP: AN IDEOLOGUE AND POET / “ DEOLOG”1 - SA R Z YA G KALP’ N KALEM NDEN MASALLAR

When he was a small child, Ziya G kalp wasinterested in folk tales and stories, and later as aresearcher, he realized that this tradition was animportant and rich resource. While inculcating the ideaof Turkism, he particularly uses this resource. During theyears G kalp wrote the tales in verse or prose (1911-1922), the Turkish nation was showing resistance againstbeing eliminated from the page of history and strugglingto survive. However, it was impossible to surmount thisstruggle with the old life style and to continue to live bypreserving the old customs. It was necessary to adopt anew life style. And the principles of this new life wereincluded in Turkism, the most popular ideology of theperiod. This ideology aimed at the syntesis of hars(national culture) and civilization. Benefited especiallyfrom the folk tales while telling about the new life, ZiyaG kalp both gave the folk tales forgotten by the Turkishliterature experiencing the periods of Tanzimat, Servet-iFün n and Fecr-i ti their reputation back and indicatedthe way toward the synthesis of hars (national culture)and civilization by inculcating new ideas through folktales, a class of literature, as well. In this study, we willshow how the ideologue-poet used the folk tale, a class offolk literature.