| dc.description.abstract | Throughout history, Turkish culture has experienced many internal and external migration processes affecting the social, political, social and economic structure. One of them is the phenomenon of emigration to Germany in the 1960s. In the first place, due to the fact that Turkish immigrants are active in many areas in Germany, where they temporarily go for work to earn money, Turkish immi-grants gradually settled in Germany by taking other members of the family and their relatives with them. After this process, the existence and development of Turkish culture in Germany has become inevitable. This immigration phenomenon, which affects Turkish immigrants at many points, has forced the expatriates to live both the Turkish culture they cannot break away from and the German culture when appropriate. This new culture caused some problems, moods and troubles for both Germans and Turks. Turkish workers brought their traditions, beliefs, habits, values and many other cultural elements with them to the places they went. Therefore, the positive and negative consequences of migration manifest themselves on the individual, social and cultural levels. One of the first problems experienced by our expatriates in their foreign lands was the foreign language problem. As a matter of fact, Turkish expatriates who could not express themselves in a foreign culture and language started to sing folk songs because of the need to relieve themselves, to express their troubles, to express their thoughts, to release their feelings and to share. As a result, Turkish expatriates who went to Germany as workers wrote many folk songs. Due to the inability of Turkish expatriates to communicate with people they are foreigners, they have expressed their troubles, longings and sadness in folk songs by satisfying their need to express themselves through folk songs. In this context, the aim of this study is to examine which cultural elements are present in the folk songs written in Germany, how the folk songs reflect Turkish culture, their power to reflect the culture and the way Turks reflect culture. In addition, it was investigated whether the motifs and symbols in Turkish culture are included in folk songs. In order to achieve this aim, document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. In the process of analyzing the documents, the method of hermeneutics was used. In the study, data were obtained from the source published under the title of "Alamanian Folk Songs", which served the purpose of the research and compiled by Ozturk by using maximum diversity sampling. A total of 49 folk songs were examined. Cultural inferences have been made from the style and language of the folk songs. According to the findings obtained in the study, geographical features in folk songs, place names, animal and food names, values existing in Turkish culture, Turkish dress styles, family structure, religious elements, idioms, local discourse styles, linguistic uses, wars, traditions related to belief, it has been observed that many cultural factors such as historical and social events were reflected in folk songs. In the study, it was also emphasized that in addition to the existing Turkish culture in German folk songs, the cultural changes that took place over time were also included in the folk songs. | en_US |
