The XXXVI International Scientific Symposium "Multidisciplinary Studies of the Turkish World" The 25 th of March 2023 ISBN: 978-605-72481-0-7 Eskishehir / Türkiye ---23---
LITERARY STUDIES AND FOLKLORE/ EDEBİYAT BİLİMİ VE FOLKLOR / ƏDƏBİYYATŞÜNASLIQ VƏ FOLKLOR ANADOLU’DAN AVRUPA’YA KURULAN GÖNÜL KÖPRÜSÜ YUNUS’TAN LUTHER’E ÇAĞRI Medine SİVRİ Prof. Dr.
Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi, İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü
Orcid id: 0000-0002-9407-9308
Abstract. The aim of this study is to trace the philosophy of Yunus Emre, who lived at the end of the
13
th
century and in the first quarter of the 14
th
century and was one of the most eminent authors of Turkish Sufi
literature. The overall aim of this study is to examine Yunus Emre’s philosophy, what he left to the cultural
heritage of humanity, how he laid the foundation stones of the bridge of the heart to be built from Anatolia to
Europe, and the values he brought to that period in terms of Erdoan Alkan’s long story titled “Call to Luther
From Yunus”. The similar conditions and results created by the power and religion wars that took place in
thirteenth or fourteenth-century Anatolia and sixteenth-century Europe and the indirect relationship between
Anatolia and European enlightenment are evaluated comparatively through Yunus Emre and Martin Luther.
In the light of the sociological and historical criticism of how the East-West relationship was established and
through which channels the cultural transmission took place, this research focuses on the basis of the
philosophy and depths of the poems of the great Turkish scholar Koca Yunus, who has made the Turkish
language a “flag voice” in the words of Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca and has become public knowledge. This
movement of thought, which was conveyed from Turkestan to Anatolia in the durgah of Ahmet Yesevi by
Hacı Bektaş Veli and other volunteers, fermented in the heart of wisdom and still continues to enlighten
humanity even today.
