On Similar and Different Sides Between Legend of “Alp Kara Arslan” and "Epic How Basat Killed Tepegöz"

Although the communities of the Turkic world which spreading from Asia to Europe have gone through different political, social and religious adventures, they have kept their cultural codes alive in folk cultures that keep the national memory alive. There is a similarity in Turkish oral culture products that are passed from oral area to written area in different centuries and different geographies. Folklore products change over time and the effects of the socio-cultural and socio-political incidents of the period in which they were written down are also observed. The legend of Alp Kara Aslan in Ulu Han Ata Bitigçi or transmitted from Süleyman b. Abdülhakk b. Pehlivan el-Azerbaycânî according to Haarmann, is one of them. There are similar and different aspects between this legend written in different fields in different centuries with the book of Dede Korkut and the epic How Basat Killed Tepegoz in book of Dede Korkut. Although there are no similarities in the story of Basat, who saved the province of Oghuz, with the legend of Alp Kara Aslan, which is the subject of descent, the heroes' growth process, the source of their power, the stages of finding their identity and the zoomorph, the animal-ancestor thought circle, similar and different sides stand out.