A Study on the Formation of the Meistersinger Asik Tradition and Asik Literature in Turkey

The purpose of this study is to examine the origin and development of the meistersinger Asik traditional culture and the characteristics of Asik literature, which became a very important cultural heritage of literary history from the 16th to 19th centuries.The Meistersinger tradition, which spread across the Eurasian continent and formed its own unique cultural identity, is highly research-worthy in that it not only occupies an important value as an intangible cultural heritage of the Turkic peoples, but also reveals its cultural affinity with the Korean people. In addition, in the study of Western meistersinger such as Homer, the meistersinger tradition of the Turkic people can make a great contribution.For the Oghuz group among Turkic peoples settled in the Anatolian Peninsula, the artist-poets who have the shaman function of Ozan, were reborn in the Ottoman Empire and centered in Islam as a of meistersinger of Asik, equipped with Asik literature. The genre of folk literature based on the Asik tradition was created.Asik Literature is a new fused form of art in which the Ozan-Baksi literary tradition was reorganized and developed within Ottoman culture and style. In other words, the Turks who settled in Anatolia have a traditional poetic form of four lines and a basic poetic form called Mani , written in the “Ottoman language” that could have been called “pure Turkic” in that era, and smelted in a furnace called Islam and Sufism for Anatolia. The new genre, Asik Literature, was born by melting all cultural and historical factors in the era of Ottoman Empire.