Özet:

Narrative of Deli Dumrul has been analyzed in many aspects till today and variety of properties about the old time life style of Turks has been discussed. Another property mentioned in this narrative is a kind of bargain for life. Why has Deli Dumrul turned to his father at first, when he has had to find another life instead of his? Any reader, who doesn’t know about the plot, could be thought that the hero would ask to his mother first. The situation of the father adopted in the narrative has to be the reflection of the men’s wish, which was not to die as a result of ageing like a woman in the old social structure. That’s why the hero asked for life instead of his life firstly to his father and then to his mother. Both of the two have lived through their era, came to the end of their lives and lost their power and situations in the old social structure. Thus their death could be named as a kind of “voluntary death” or “euthanasia” as called in literature. Tradition of leaving old-aged father and mother to death or killing them in the societies exposed to difficult life conditions will be mentioned in the paper and it is tried to be proved that traces of this tradition could be taken places in the narrative of Deli Dumru

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