Özet:

One of the richest kind of folkore are also epic. Epics at the end of a very long creation and development process has come up to the present. In addition to the historical elements in epics the information related with the tradition, costoms and life styles of the nations not found in any other sources is located. This kind of works is also important document of the written language. One of the most well-known and known epics of Turkish literature is the epic of Battal Gazi, too. The boks and articles were written about the epic in the country and abroad and symposiums were organized in the name of the epic. The Epic of Battal Gazi was born as a result of the wars between Muslims and Byzantines in the border regions of Anatolia. People in the epic are the representatives of two different ideologies. In our studies, the allusions and references in Battal Gazi Epic were examined. With the examination results, it was observed that the references and the allusions give information about the religious, cultural and social environment in which the narration was formed

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