Abstract:

ruTraditional rituals of hunting,which is as old as history of the mankind,show common features in all humanity. It is fact that, some traditional appliances that are made before hunting, during hunting and after hunting have shown basic changes practically in today’s modern hunting. The hunting with eagle and hawk in Central Asia is still vivid today in terms of form and application. Today people hunting with hawk in Sinop beside Rize and Artvin is very few. * Kırgızistan- Türkiye Manas Üniversitesinin 25-27 Nisan 2012 tarihleri arasında düzenlediği, V. Uluslararası Genç Türkologlar Sempozyumunda bildiri olarak sunulmuştur. ** Sinop Üniversitesi, Fen- Edebiyat Fakültesi, Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Hunters who are the members of Hunting Club in Sinop, express that the kind and type of the ground games are decreasing, people are not showing sensitivity enough for the nature and forests, the population of the ground game is in a worrying level as a result of the unconscious hunting of the bundlers. In the city, the situation of hunting that is done with hunter birds was examined depending on the news from the local press since the establishment of Republic and the problems of hunting animals were tried to be voiced.

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