Dede Korkut Kitabındaki Ahlaki Mesajlar

Abstract

Dede Korkut is kown as the ancestor, the leader, the miraculuous saint of the Turks. And Dede Korkut is a work which consists of 12 epic stories and an introduction about the lives of the Muslims around the Northeast Anatolia told with the language of the Oghuz Turks. In this book, the moral values and Islamic values are interwoven; morality is accepted as an extremely outstanding value. In the work, worldly wealth and desire, haughtiness, lie, slander and anger are introduced as bad moral qualities. Beauty, honesty, loyalty, humility, generosity and benevolence, hospitality, banquet and gift, consultation (consulting with intelligent and wise people), being hardworking, heroism, honor, friendship, etc. are reflected as good moral qualities. Also, in the work of Dede Korkut, there are rich materials about family morality (the love, devotion, loyality, self - sacrifice; the places and importance of the wife, the husband, the mother, the father, the brothers and the sisters, education of the family) and political morality