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The effects of the Covid-19 epidemic and severe economic conditions in 2021 were experienced intensely in Turkey. Despite of these negativities, studies, based on the Book of Dede Korkut has been continued. Widely known as one of the main manuscripts of Turkish culture and prime example of the oldest genre of Turkish literature -epic-, Dede Korkut Kitabı (Eng. Trans. The Book of Dede Korkut/The Book of Grandfather Korkut) was improvised by a Turkish ozan (Minstrel) Dede Korkut who also called as Dedem Korkut (My Grandfather Korkut), Korkut Ata (Ancestor Korkut) among Turks. As it is known, the studies based on the Book of Dede Korkut has been carrying out on the basis of the Dresden and Vatican copies and the Günbed Manuscript. On the basis of the Book of Dede Korkut, many popular, scientific, cultural and artistic forms of work were carried out, and organized events in 2021 in Turkey. In what form and in what quantity these works were produced; what causes and motives are affected in terms of quantity and form; -if any- what are the levels of these effects and effect values are the questions that this article focuses on. Being focused on this very question, I aimed to evaluate Dede Korkut studies which appeared during 2021. This very statistical, annotative and comparative evaluation on these studies has addressed them in the light of folklore theories. As a result, it is seen that above-mentioned events related to The Book of Dede Korkut have influenced them in positive and negative aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While Turkey and the World are dealing with current health issues, research on Dede Korkut continued unhindered. Causing the deaths of millions in Turkey and the World, new Coronavirus (Covit-19) outbreak has affected adversely our lives in all its parts. This very new circumstances have made us to reconstructed our daily life including relationship, nutrition, economics, education and even our health systems. Experiencing new priorities, the excitement among Turcologists and in the public created by the discovery of Dede Korkut's 13th epos in 2019 has lost its influence. Furthermore, the abolishment of 100 basic literary work regulation has negative effect on the amount of popular publications as well. Being aware of all unfamiliar news, scholars have continued to work on Dede Korkut in 2020, as in the past years. However, have these foregoing events affected the studies centered on the Dede Korkut Book in terms of quantity? In this paper, it has been evaluated the studies appeared in 2020 by focusing on this question. All these studies have been evaluated by using statistics and annotated comparative analysis methods, which enable us to understand how Covid-19 climate has affected quantity of work on Dede Korkut in different rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Compilation is a word corresponding to "collecting, providing" in everyday life. It is accepted and expressed in the aforementioned sense [providing, collecting traditional raw information etc.] in folklore compilation methodology as well. In general, field research is a chain activity, which takes place in three stages: planning, compilation and analyzing. Compilation is known to be carried out in the form of collecting, recording and archiving raw information using field observation or interview methods, and the consecutive recorded raw traditional knowledge is evaluated on the basis of theories and concepts. In practice, the possible environment in which any folklore product can be obtained is determined. Then, preparation / planning is made for obtaining the information in question and the environment is visited. Subsequently, the raw information in question is obtained through various compilation methods such as interview, observation, and survey and recorded in written, audio and / or video form. In the last stage, new knowledge is produced by analyzing the raw information obtained with scientific theories and concepts. So far, in relevance to compilation methods, a lot of studies deployed, models were created, and proposals have been put forward in Turkey and in the West. Nevertheless, compared to the studies on folklore collection methods in the West and Turkey, the West compilation concepts and methods have been observed to have developed and applied in the field, while in Turkey translated concepts and methods of the west are possibly being implemented and published in the field as identical or modified. All in all, the folklore compilation concepts and methods, thus, are understood to be as translations to have obtained from west and deployed in Turkey with the approach of western researchers in a general description. The preliminary preparation and planning phase that should be done before the field research (compilation) was mentioned directly or indirectly in the publications of researchers and some organizations working on compilation. In our country, where a wide range of folklore sharing occurs in a short-time socialization environments as in the bus, market, and hospital, the folklorist should see it as a responsibility to make use of every opportunity and record the raw folklore. The focus of this work is based on the sequencing questions: "Does the process mentioned in the folklore compilation methodology always work like this or should it be?" and also "Can a compilation work be done in sudden developing or coincidental performance environments, and if this is possible, how is the compilation process done?" In the study, the literature was reviewed to find answers to aforementioned questions, and based on "memories", although it is in practice, a new compilation method is proposed, which is not mentioned, to the folklore compilation methodology, and there is an attempt to determine if the proposed method would be valid in literature. Thus, on the one hand, by providing the actual situation to the literature, the procedural-essential confusion will be avoided, on the other hand, the naming of the unprepared / unplanned compilation that can be made when the conditions occur, and the place of this naming in the classification will be determined and confirmed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Laughing is a human-specific reaction and all humans are born with the capability to laugh. This reaction evolves from a chuckle to laughter to smile. Laughter is created in two ways, with the presence and lack of feeling within a person. One of the ways that laughter is created is through a physical reaction. The other way that laughter is created is through a reaction to humor. Although the reaction of laughter is not always dependent on humor, humorous factors may always make a person laugh. On the other hand, how did the Turks use humor? After the 10th century AC (After 10 AC) there are written sources of how the Turks use humor, but before the 9th century there are no studies on the relations of Turkish people with humor, in their lives. Therefore the time before the 9th century is chosen as the period of the study and the traces of humor before the 9th century will be investigated. The factors related to humor will be chosen from the Turkish mythology, the Kokturk monuments, old Turkish texts and the Chinese sources. The factors related to humor from these sources are used to construct a whole in relation the context of the theories of humor. As a result of the research before the 9th century vocabulary that bears humorous factors were found in mythology, dance, story, gravestones, communication through letters, practices and rituals casts and many areas, places and narrative styles with the functions of entertainment, relief, and irony. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]