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The wail expressing the common feelings of the people against sorrowful events lively is one of our significant cultural values keeping its importance in verbal tradition since past Today wail and wailing tradition has begun to disappear gradually in city centers depending on the changes in socio cultural life whereas it is tried to be kept alive especially in rural areas as in the past In this article wailing tradition in Mersin is focused and the form and content properties of wails of this region have been tried to be determined considering the wail samples in verbal culture domain and in this way the importance of Mersin wails in tradition has been tried to be revealed Also during the consideration and analysis of this type giving clues about the customs and traditions feeling and thinking style and life philosophy of a society it has been mentioned that the text only is not enough and the environment where these works are presented should be taken into consideration as well Key Words: Turkish Folk Culture wails Mersin wails wailing tradition verbal culture domain

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