Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TURK KULTURU VE HACI BEKTAS VELI-ARASTIRMA DERGISI, sa.62, ss.45-82, 2012 (AHCI)
Haci Bektas Veli and Pir Sultan Abdal who are well-known figures of Turkish folk culture are images that one can sometimes come across in modern Turkish Poetry. In this article, the poems from 1940 to 2010 have been examined in order to find out the inter-textual relations that occur as a result of quotations, reminders, images and styles. It has been found out that modern poets mostly refer to the tranquillity and peace-loving manners of Haci Bektas Veli, and the opposition-loving identity and the hanging event of Pir Sultan in their poems. In the poems it is noticeable that Haci Bektas Veli's and Pir Sultan's historical reality have been slightly changed, and it is also observable that they have been, mentally, separated from their mystic world views and, as a result, they have begun to be recognized as national heroes for peace or fighters for political ideas. It is also possible to claim that especially socialist poets have preferred to refer to Haci Bektas Veli more than Pir Sultan Abdal because of finding his political views more similar to their own although the references have been less than expected in number.