REPRESENTATIVES WITH THE FABLE ELEMENTS OF “EVIL” IN TURKISH LEGENDS IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD THE EXAMPLE OF BATTALNAME

Concepts of “good” and “evil” are concepts that cannot be evaluated independent of one another but that most of the time cannot be separated from one another with certain lines. The concepts of “bad” and “evil”, which express matters that harm people themselves or their environment, have always led to attempts to avoid these and the seeking of goodness. Humanity, which is contained within the efforts to avoiding evil and reaching goodness whose sources are sought after in many places, reflects the perceptions and acceptances belonging to evil, the feelings and attitudes that it developed against that based on its own lives, feelings, thoughts, beliefs, ideals, and dreams towards the verbal narratives that it brought about. The first texts that emerged from the battle between “good and evil” within verbal narratives are mythical texts. Legends that are a continuation of these have become texts in which this battle rages on throughout the ages over different characters. Especially new religious assumptions that deeply affect the life of society cause various perceptions and acceptances in the narratives of Turks who had accepted Islam and caused the emergence of new motifs that perform different functions. In one Turkish legend after the conversion to Islam the Legend of the Battal Ghazi (Battalname), while the hero, who has no purpose other than the effect of Islam and the spread of this religion, symbolizes good, his battles with various fantastic-mythical entities that symbolize evil are witnessed, apart from the non-Islamic soldiers with whom he fights. These entities have not only added extraordinary significance to epic texts but have created examples of the battle between good and evil reflected in verbal products after the mythical texts