Özet:

Baskil is one of the important districts of Elazığ where cultural values are kept  alive. The people's protecting their traditional values ensured that the culture of the region remained  alive for many years. Yahya Kemal says that "I am neither ruined nor reveller / I am the  future whose root is in the past.” This deep-rooted commitment to ancestor cult, history and cultural values is highly important for raising individuals who are aware of their identity.  Tradition is the continuity of cultural values, which are accepted as sacred in a society, by  being transferred from generation to generation. Each individual creates immortal codes in collective  consciousness with the values s/he carries from the social heritage of the nation to which  s/he belongs. Going into the army is also a divine national service and is blessed with traditional  values among the people. Military service is an important transition period that  creates change and transformation in the life of every young person who leaves the family home.  Among the people, not giving a girl in marriage to the young man who has notperformed his  military service, indicates the importance of military service as a place of passage to adulthood.  In the study, rituals (throwing the young man up three times, to make him bite a bagel,  baking eggs in the soldier’s letters and make him eat, etc.) related to the tradition of sending off  to military in Baskil and its surroundings have been handled in terms of their importance in  cultural memory and have been analyzed symbolically. Thus, the importance of mythology and  beliefs in the formation of traditions has been emphasized.

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