Sufi belief has played an important role in the process of Turkification and Islamization of the Balkans, which is an ancient cultural geography of the Turkic World: The emergence of sects, which are the way of the application of Sufi faith, has facilitated this process: Bektashism, who has a lot of verses, is also one of these sects. The culture of culture, especially in Albania and Macedonia, is present in the village of Kanatlar, which is located in Macedonia today: the history of the village established by the raiding Turks brought from Anatolia to Manastir as a result of the government policy implemented by the Ottoman Empire. century. Dikmen Baba the third largest lodge in Bektashi, which is believed to have been founded by Dikmen Baba, is the third largest lodge in Bektashi. An important figure in the religious life of Diní-sufism, which is one of the verse genres of Turkish folk literature; They are poems which are read with their own compositions in

After the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, the Western Thrace Turks, left to the rule of Greece, remained an official minority. In this process (regardless of political opinion), all Greek governments have always pursued a policy of assimilation of Western Thrace Turks. Western Thrace Turks were naturally in a struggle against these pressures, which were concentrated in political, religious, legal, economic, cultural, social and educational fields. In this study, women and their successes and their positions in the social struggle of Western Thrace Turks in Greece and diaspora were discussed. Literature review has been done about the subject; a part of the women who were told about their struggle was also contacted and their opinions about the subject were taken into consideration.

The Balkan Slavs lived with the Turks in the Ottoman administration, which lasted almost six centuries. Turkish language has been the most important language in the Balkans for centuries. It is well known that Slavic intellectuals living on the Balkans use Turkish and create works in Cyrillic. Turkish texts, written in Cyrillic letters, highlight the historical development of the Turkish community, while revealing the superb governance, tolerance and human-oriented structure of Turkish civilization. This is a three-language Macedonian-Albanian-Turkish work written by the Macedonian linguist, historian Georgi Pulevski, and published in 1875 in the state press in Belgrade in Cyrillic alphabet. The work of 160 pages is known as a dictionary. Although it is called a dictionary; religious objects, geography, botany, mines, plants, beings, languages, state administration, etc. It also includes themes. This is a textbook on providing general information on many different topics such as questions and answers. The book, written in the 19th century Cyrillic, sheds light on the Turkish language and educational life in the Balkans. The survey provides information on the content of the work, and examples of the topics discussed are presented.

Proverbs; it is the phrases that have been accepted by the society, which give out short and concise advice from the experiences of a society. Therefore, it is possible to see the common attitude of the society in every proverb. Although they live in different geographies and states, linguistic, historical and cultural continuity provided a common point of view in Turkish proverbs. This is especially can be detected in the works that written on the proverbs of Crimean-Tatar, who dispersed Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Turkey. As the proverbs of the Crimean-Tatars living in Bulgaria have not yet been introduced, they have not been included in this process. In our study, in the work, whose name is “Ateslerimen Kelenler” by Gülser Canay and include folkloric material the proverbs of the Crimean-Tatar have been identified in Bulgaria and it has been transposed into Turkish. Then these proverbs were classified according to their sentence structure.

ÖZET Türk-Islam cografyasinda olusturulan yazili edebiyatin bir bölümüne de mezar taslari üzerinde rastlamaktayiz. Özellikle Istanbul merkez/örnek alinarak olusturulmus bir medeniyet cografyasi olarak Balkanlar’da, birçogu yok edilmis olsa da, yazili mezar tasi örneklerine çok sik rastlanmaktadir. Bu yazilardan bir kismi, Anadolu/Istanbul mezar taslarinda görülen kalip ifadeler tasisa da, önemli bir kisminda da hem konu hem de ifade açisindan kendine has özellikler görülmektedir. Yahya Kemal Beyatli, Salih Asim Bey gibi pekçok yazar ve arastirmaci tarafindan “vatan” kavrami açiklanirken özellikle üzerinde durulan mezar taslari, birer dil/edebiyat kaynagi olarak da, farkli yarklasimlarla incelenmelidir. Balkan bölgesindeki mezar taslari incelendiginde görülmektedir ki; bu taslar sadece tas isçiligi açisindan veya tarihî deger olarak kiymetli degildir. Balkan Türk edebiyati açisindan; Ömer Osman Erendoruk, Rahmi Ali, Necati Zekeriya, Zeynel Beksaç gibi edebiyatçilarin eserlerinde görülen Türkçe nasil degerli ise, her birisi sanat eseri olan bu mezar taslarindaki Türkçe de o kadar degerlidir.