ÂŞIK ŞİİRİNDE BİR BAĞLAM UNSURU OLARAK AKRABALIK VE KAHRAMANMARAŞLI ALEVİ ÂŞIKLAR

A family is a community of people who are related to each other through associations established by blood or marriage. The phenomenon family/kinship constitutes dimension the context, which means atmosphere/environment formation for folk poetry. It has been pointed out researchers that there several basic influences in "poet-minstrel tradition", culture-art-literature tradition formed poets and extending beyond millennia. One them Alevi culture. culture, rich deep-rooted as part colour Turkish literature, trained many poets. Kinship, general attitude context element minstrel poetry, also question minstrels. can be said Kahramanmaraş region, framework study, constitute such large group they form voluminous anthology. With this 32 families 105 minstrels/poets belonging these were identified Maraş region. In status minstrels on district-village basis, chronological position people, their kinship pseudonyms expressed results evaluated. Keywords: Minstrel, Alevi, Context, Kahramanmaraş.