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A TRADITIONAL TURKISH STORYLoading...
An Original Voice Book By
Coronline Schools
E-Twinning Group
PROF. DR. NECMETTİN ERBAKAN ANATOLİAN HİGH SCHOOL
ZEYNEP NEAL
Kerem and Aslı is a tragic love story from the Turkish-Azerbaijani popular poetry of the 16th century.
YUSUF NEAL
The story probably originated in Azerbaijan or Eastern Anatolia and is widespread throughout the Caucasus and Central Asia.
HÜMEYRA NEAL
Kerem and Aslı is performed by Aşık.
AYTEN KEMAL AKINAL ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL
MİRA AKAL
The father flees with his daughter out of fear of the Padishah, and Kerem sets out with his friend Sofu to find her.
YAĞMUR AKAL
After a long hike, they finally find Aslı and, at the behest of Aleppo's pasha, the couple is married.
ELA AKAL
On the wedding night, the buttons of the enchanted robe that the monk has put on his daughter cannot be released.
SELMA AKAL
Kerem breathes such a deep sigh that he goes up in flames
AHMETLİ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ
FATMANAS AAİHL
The story is often enriched with fateful coincidences and extrasensory motifs: the two lovers were born at the same hour and grew up together.
FURKAN AAİHL
The earliest known record is found in the 16th century Mecmûatü’l-Letâif Sandükatü’z-Zerâif
NİSANUR AAİHL
Together with Sofu they fight many dangers.
RÜVEYDA AAİHL
Sometimes magic was involved when the two main characters were born or Khidr saves Kerem from extreme need, rivers and mountains clear the way when Kerem starts a poem, and Kerem speaks with skulls on the Mount Judi, the site of the Noah's Ark.
SEHIT ABDULKADIR OGUZ ANATOLIAN IMAM HATIP HIGH SCHOOL
EMİN ŞAO
The story was published and processed many times in print at the end of the 19th century.
HALİL ŞAO
Ahmed Fahri wrote a play in five acts on the subject in 1888.
KAVA ŞAO
In the same year Leopold Grünfeld translated Kerem and Aslı into German (Anatolian folk songs from the Kaba Dil. Leipzig 1888).
MUHAMMED ŞAO
Other scholars who dealt with Kerem and Aslı were Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Pertev Naili Boratav and Cahit Öztelli.